The Route Book of Devon: A Guide for the Stranger and Tourist to the Towns, Watering Places, and Other Interesting Localities of this County : with Maps of the Roads, County of Devon, and Plans of Exeter, Plymouth, Devonport, and Stonehouse |
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Alphington ancient Ashburton Axminster Bampton banks Barnstaple baths beach beautiful Bideford Bishop's Brixham Brixham Cross Gate Bude Budleigh Salterton building built castle chapel Chudleigh church cliff Clovelly Combmartin Coplestone Crediton Cross Gate Dartmouth Cullompton Dartmoor Dartmouth Floating Bridge Dawlish Devon Devonport Ditto Earl east erected Exeter Exmouth extensive feet Fore-street Furl Furl.||Miles Gate Dartmouth Floating grounds Hartland Hatherleigh Heavitree High-street hill Holsworthy Honiton Horns Cross Hotel houses Ilfracombe inhabitants Ivybridge Kennford Kingsbridge Launceston Linton manor Mary's Clist mile and half Modbury Moretonhampstead neighbourhood Newton Poppleford Okehampton Paignton parish parliament Parracombe passing pleasant Plymouth present principal Quay railway residence river rock Route Route,-A scenery seat short distance side Sidmouth situated Southmolton Starcross stone Stonehouse stranger street Tamar Tavistock Teign Teignmouth three miles Tiverton Topsham Torquay Torrington Totnes tower town turnpike road village walk Wellington woods
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Page 248 - some of whose marble clavils were so delicately fine, that they would reflect an object true and lively from a great distance. In short the number of apartments of the whole may be collected hence, if report be true; that it was a good day's work for a servant but to open and shut the casements belonging to them.
Page 248 - of upwards of twenty thousand pounds, but never brought it to perfection, for the west side of the quadrangle was never begun : what was finished may be thus described. Before the door of the great hall was a noble walk, whose length was the breadth of the court arched over with curiously carved freestone, supported in the
Page 354 - The traveller however had remarked nothing more than that his horse had made a sudden spring; but on being afterwards led to the tremendous chasm, he was struck with a mingled sensation of horror, surprise, and thankfulness at the danger he had so providentially escaped.
Page 347 - Ordulph travelling towards Exeter, with king Edward the Confessor, to whom he was related, when they came to the gates of the city they found them locked and barred, and the porter, knowing nothing of their coming, was absent. Upon which Ordulph, leaping off his horse,
Page 356 - Where in the morn they hang and draw, And sit in judgment after; At first 1 wondered at it much, But since
Page 351 - Shellands (a parcel of land near the mill whose name reminds one of the Scotch word Sheeling), and then if he can get any little boy to become his guide, (and sixpence, I dare say, will procure him that advantage,) he may go on to Mary Tavy
Page 139 - In Devonshire too, all the comforts of the country are directed against cold; here all the precautions are the other way. The streets are built as much as possible to exclude the rays of the sun, and are now as damp and cold as rain
Page 248 - over with curiously carved freestone, supported in the forepart by several stately pillars of the same stone, of great dimensions, after the Corinthian order, standing on pedestals having cornices of friezes finely wrought, behind which, were placed in the walls several seats of
Page 355 - Yea, it is averred, and there want not proofs to maintain it, that it came little short of some cities; for they can shew you where the gates stood, and also the foundation of the walls that encircled it, compacted of moorstone and lime, which they lighted on as they digged their fields.
Page 340 - branches are literally festooned with ivy and creeping plants; and their trunks are so thickly embedded in a covering of fine velvet moss, that at first sight you would imagine them to be of enormous thickness in proportion to their height.