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The Coasts of Devon and Lundy Island:
Their Towns, Villages, Scenery, Antiquities and Legends
by
John Lloyd Warden Page
London: Horace Cox, Windsor House, Bream's Buildings, E.C. (1895), maps, illus., 444 pp.
Prepared by Michael Steer
The author has written a number of books, for example, his Explorations of Dartmoor and its Antiquities(1889), An Exploration of Exmoor(1890), and The Rivers of Devon: From Source to Sea (1893). They are generally regarded as 'Bibles' by students of Devon's history. This copiously illustrated book, held at the University of Toronto Library was produced from a digital copy that can be downloaded from https://archive.org/details/coastsofdevonlun00pageuoft
Microsoft (MSN) has sponsored the digitisation of books from several libraries. These books, on which copyright has expired, are available for free educational and research use, both as individual books and as full collections to aid researchers.
CONTENTS,
CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY.
Coast Scenery, The North Coast, The South Coast, Climate, Geology, River Estuaries, Harbours and Seaports, Fishing Stations, Watering Places, Historical Associations
PART I. THE COAST OF NORTH DEVON.
CHAPTER II.
THE BORDERS OF DEVON AND SOMERSET.
On the Moorland, Coaches County Gate, Old Barrow, The Seaward Slopes, Valley of the Lyn, Coscombe, Glenthorne, The Coast Pathway, The Foreland, A Foggy Incident, The Gun, Caverns, Countisbury.
CHAPTER III.
LYNMOUTH AND ITS SURROUNDINGS.
Countisbury Hill, Coach Accidents, An Earthwork, Lynmouth, Glen Lyn, The Cliff Railway, Lynton, Valley of Rocks, Legends Ring, Cliff Cove, Duty Point, Lee Abbey, Story of the Wichehalses, The Doones.
CHAPTER IV.
MARTINSHOE, TRENTISHOE, AND "THE GREAT HANGMAN.
Lee Bay, The Smuggler and the Exciseman, Crock Meads, Woodabay, Martinhoe, North Devon Cottages, Martinhoe Church, Bishop Hannington, Hollow Combe, High Veer, Heddon's Mouth, Hunter's Inn, Trentishoe, An Old Man Yarn, Holdstone Down, Sherracombe, The Great Hangman, Miners' Caves
CHAPTER V.
COMBE MARTIN.
The Little Hangman, Yes Tor, Challacombe Farm, The Mines of Combe Martin, Wild Pear Beach, Combe Martin, Combe Martin Church, The Last of the Martins, Thomas Harding, A Quaint Festival.
CHAPTER VI.
THROUGH BERRYNARBOR AND WATERMOUTH.
The Castle Earthwork, Sandy Way, Watermouth, Smallmouth Caves, Berrynarbor, Bishop Jewel, Manor House, A Healthy Place, Dangerously Old, Sloe Gin, Watermouth Harbour and Castle, Widmouth Head, Rillage Point, Interesting Rocks, Hele, Chambercombe, A Ghost Story.
CHAPTER VII.
ILFRACOMBE.
Chambercombe, Trayne, Hillsborough, Rapparee Cove, Ilfracombe Harbour, Lantern Hill, History of Ilfracombe, The Town, The Capstone, Wildersmouth, Runnacleaves, The Torrs, Climate, Church, An Old Monument.
CHAPTER VIII.
MORTEHOE.
The Road to Lee, Over the Torrs, Cairn Top, Lee Damage, John Cutcliffe, A Smuggler's Hole, Wreck of the Leamington, Bull Point, A Pleasant Musical Instrument, Rockham Bay, Mortehoe, A Doubtful Cromlech, Morty Well, Mortehoe Church, De Tracey
CHAPTER IX.
BETWEEN MORTE POINT AND BIDEFORD BAR.
Tasteless Architecture, Another Cromlech, Barricane Beach, Woolacombe, A Brig Ashore, Woolacombe Sands, Georgeham, Croyde, Croyde Bay, Baggy Point, A Dangerous Cave, Saunton Down, Saunton Court, A Boulder out of Place, Braunton Burrows, Mouth of the Torridge and Taw.
CHAPTER X.
APPLEDORE AND CLOVELLY.
Instow, Appledore, Hubba the Dane, Bloody Corner, Northam, Burrough, Westward Ho, The Pebble Ridge, Abbotsham, Portledge, Sir William Coffin and the Priest, Peppercombe, Buck's Mill, Hobby Drive, Clovelly.
CHAPTER XI.
HARTLAND.
A Remote District, Clovelly Church, The Carys, Clovelly Park, Gallantry, Bower Mouth Mill, Exmansworthy, On Samplers, Hartland Point, The Pony and the Foghorn, Smoothlands, Blackmouth, Hartland Abbey, Stoke, St. Nectan, A Bellicose Parish.
CHAPTER XII.
THE BORDERLAND OF DEVON AND CORNWALL.
Mouths, Hartland Quay, Catterin Tor, Spekesmouth, Henbury Beacon, Welcombe, An Eccentric Parson, "Jollow's", Welcombe Mouth, Cruel Coppinger, Marsland Mouth.
PART II. LUNDY ISLAND.
CHAPTER XIII.
A GENERAL DESCRIPTION.
Appearance, Geology, Climate, Fogs, Wrecks, The Islanders, The Island Polity, Cultivation, An "Explosive" Story, Mammalia, Birds, Fishing.
CHAPTER XIV.
THE ISLAND KINGDOM.
How and Where to Land, An Unpleasant Experience, The Gannet, The Parson's Predicament, The Voyage from Instow, The Landing Place, The Road, Lametry, Rat Island, The Owner's Residence, The Manor House, Church, and School, A Pleasant Service, Kistvaens, A Gigantic Skeleton, The Lighthouse St. Helen's Church.
CHAPTER XV.
FROM MARISCO CASTLE TO JOHN o' GROATS.
Marisco Castle, The Mariscos, A Turbulent Race, Despenser and Edward the Second, A Nest of Pirates, Benson's Cave, Benson and his Villainies, The Rattles, The Seal's Cave, The Devil's Limekiln, The Shutter, Wreck of the Galleon, Friar's Garden, Quarter Wall, The Earthquake, The Punchbowl, The Cheeses, Jenny's Cove, The Gladstone Rock, The Round Tower, The Devil's Slide, John o' Groat's.
CHAPTER XVI.
LUNDY: THE EASTERN COAST.
The North End, The Constable, The Virgin's Well, The Gannet Stone, Plans for Harbour of Refuge, Brazen Ward, A French Ruse, The Gull Rock, Tibbet's Hill, The Templar Rock, The Logan, The Granite Quarries, Wrecks of the Tunisie and Hannah More.
PART III. THE SOUTH COAST OF DEVON.
CHAPTER XVII.
PLYMOUTH.
A Walk Down the Tamar, The Hamoaze, Plymouth Sound, The Hoe, Story of the Eddystone, The Breakwater, Drake's Island, The Citadel, History of Plymouth, The Black Prince, The French Descents, A Big Pie, Catharine of Arragon, Bryans Poole and the Hawkins' Street, Blackpool, Stoke Fleming, Gallant's Bower, Dartmouth Harbour, Dartmouth Castle.
CHAPTER XXIII.
DARTMOUTH AND BRIXHAM.
Dartmouth, St. Saviour's Church, John Hawley, Townstall, History of Dartmouth, Kingswear, Down Head Sharpham Point, Berry Head, Old Forts, Landing of William of Orange, Varwell and his Adventure, Napoleon's Visit, " Resurrection Bob", Brixham Quay and " Brixham Lords",
CHAPTER XXIV.
ABOUT TORBAY.
Paignton, The Palace, the Church, and the Kirkhams, Torquay, A Lotus Land, Torre Abbey, De Bruiere's Revenge, Chapel on Torre Hill, Climate of Torquay, Daddy's Hole and its Legend, Meadfoot, Ilsham, Grange, Kent's Cavern, Anstis Cove, Anecdote of Bishop Philpotts.
CHAPTER XXV.
OVER THE RED CLIFFS.
Walls Hill, Babbacombe ,The Story of an Attempted Execution, Oddicombe, Petit Tor, Watcombe, Terra Cotta Works, The Teignmouth Road, Shaldon Bridge, Teignmouth, Its Churches, The Parson and Clerk Rocks, Dawlish, The Warren.
CHAPTER XXVI.
FROM EXMOUTH TO SIDMOUTH.
Exmouth, Littleham, West Down Beacon, Woodbury Castle, Hayes Barton and Sir Walter Raleigh, The Introduction of Tobacco, Budleigh Salterton, The River Otter, Ladram Bay, High Peak, Sidmouth, A Ridiculous River.
CHAPTER XXVII.
FROM SIDMOUTH TO SEATON.
Salcombe Hill, Salcombe Regis, Dunscombe, Weston Mouth, Petrifying Springs, Branscombe, An Ill-kept Church, Beer Head, Beer, Beer and the Armada, Lace making, The Prince Consort's Wedding, Lace.
CHAPTER XXVIII.
OVER THE WHITE CLIFFS.
Beer Quarries, The Cove and the Capstan, The White Cliff, Seaton, Moridunum, Bovey House and its Ghost, A Blocked Haven, Battle of Brunanberg.
CHAPTER XXIX.
THROUGH THE LANDSLIP.
Mouth of the Axe, The Concrete Bridge, Haven Cliff, Culverhole Point, The Landslip, A Great Subsidence, Rowsedon, A Rough Undercliff , The County Boundary, Lyme Regis.
INDEX
Abbotsham, 145 Amyas Leigh at Lundy, 223 Anstis Cove, 371 Appledore, 136 Armada, The, 261 Arragon, Catherine of, at Plymouth, 259 Avon, Estuary of the River, 304 Axe, The River, 426, 428 Babbacombe, 374 Baggy Point, 128 Bantham, 304 Barbican, The, 278 Barricane Beach, 118 Beacon Hill, 208 Beer and the Armada, 416 Beer, 415 Cove, 422 Head, 414 Quarries, 420 Beesands, 327, Dogs of, 328 Benson the Smuggler, 218, his Cave, 218 Berry Head, 348 Berrynarbor, 72 Bicton, 400 Bigbury, 302, Bay, 295, 308 Bishop Hannington, 43, Jewel, 75 Blackpool, 335 Black Church Rock, 161, Mouth, 167 Black Prince at Plymouth, 254 Blake, Admiral, 266 Bloody Corner, 140 Bloody Hills, 128 Bolbury Down, 310 Bolt Head, 314, Tail, 309 Borough Island, 304 Bovisand Bay, 281 Branscombe, 409 Braunton Burrows, 132, Lighthouses, 132 Brazen Ward, The, 236 Britte, Walter, 286 Brixham, Cavern at, 356 Lords, 359 Trawlers, 358 Quay, 356 Buck's Mills, 149 Budleigh Salterton, 395 Bull Hole and the Bull, 313 Point, 108 Burrough and Amyas Leigh, 141 Stephen, 141 Cairn Top, 103 Cary, Will, 158 Castle, The, 69 Castle Rock, 31 Cattedown, 280, Remains near, 280 Catterin Tor, 176 Cattewater, The, 257 Challacombe (see West Challacombe) Chambercombe, 81, Legend of, 82 Cheeses, The, 226 Cliff Railway A, 29 Clovelly, 151 Church, 157 Court, 159 and Charles Kingsley, 153 Dykes, 155 Coach Accidents, 25 Coffin, Sir Wm., and the Priest, 147 Coddow Combe, 20 Combe Martin, 61, Mines of, 57 Constable, The, 230 Coscombe, 17 Cosgate, 12 Countisbury Common, 21, Village, 23 Crazy Kate, 154 Crock Meads, 40 Crock Point, 40 Cromlech, A Doubtful, 112 above Twitchen Combe, 118 Croscombe, Sir Robert, 19 Croyde, 126, Bay, 127 Cruel Coppinger, Story of, 179 Culverhole Point, 431 Cutcliffe, John, 106 Daddy Hole Plain, 367, Legend of, 367 Damage Farm, 106 Dart, Mouth of the, 337 Dartmouth, 342 Castle, 339 Harbour, 338 History of, 345 Dawlish, 383 De Bruiere's Revenge, 364 Den, The, 379 Desolate Combe, 19 Devil's Chimney, The, 227 Devil's Cheesewring, The, 32 Kitchen, 202 Limekiln, 220 Slide, 229 Devonport, 273, Leat, 275 Devonshire Roads, 100 De Whichehalses, The, 34 Ditchen Hills, 155 Doones, The, 35 Down Head, 348 Drake, Sir Francis, 262 Drake's Island, 251 Dunscombe Farm, 408 Durl Head, 348 Earl of Rone, Hunting of the, 67 Earthquake, The, 225 Eddystone, Story of the, 247 Edward II and Lundy Island, 215 Eldern Point, 164 Erme, The River, 298 Exe, Estuary of the River, 386 Exmoor, 11 Exmouth, 388 Explosive Story, An, 192 Fishing Stations, 6 Foreland, The, 19, 20 French Ruse, A, 236 Attacks on Dartmouth, 336, 345 Friar's Garden, The, 224 Gallant's Bower, 337 Gallantry Bower, 160 Galleon, Wreck of the, 221 Gannet, A Voyage in the, 198, 200 Gannet Stone, 234 Geology, 3, of Kent's Cavern, 369 of Lundy Island, 185 of Rillage, 80 of Saunton, 131 of Thurlestone, 306 of Westward Ho, 144 Georgeham, 123 George the Third at Plymouth, 274 Gladstone Rock, The, 227 Glen Lyn, 28 Glenthorne, 17 Golden Cove, 71 Granite Quarries, Lundy, 239 Gun Caverns, The, 22 Half Way Wall, The, 226 Hallowe'en, Wreck of the, 312 Hallsands, 327 Hangman, The Great, 50, The Little, 55 Ham Stone, The, 313 Hannah More, Wreck of the, 241 Hannington, Bishop, 43 Harding, Thomas, 67 Hartland Abbey, 168 Church, 169 Point, 164 Town, 168 Quay, 175 Hawker, Rev. R. S., 178 Hawley, John, 343 Hayes Barton, 393 Health Resorts, 6 Heddon's Mouth, 46 Heaven, Rev. Mr., 190, 204, 210 Hele, 81, Sir John, 287 Henbury Beacon, 177 High Peak, 399 High Veer, 46 Hillsborough, 85 History of Devonshire Coasts, 7 Hobby Drive, The, 150 Holdstone Down, 49 Hollow Combe, 46 Hope, 307 Hope's Nose, 368 Hubba the Dane, 139, 208 Hubblestone, 139 Hughes, Rev. G., 252 Hunters' Inn, 48 Ilfracombe Harbour, 87 History of, 91 Town, 93 Church, 96 Torrs, 102 Ilsham Grange, 369 Instow, 135 Jenny's Cove, 227 Jewel, Bishop, 75 Johnson, Dr., at Plymouth, 268 John O'Groat's House, 229 Jollow's, 178 Kent's Cavern, 369 Kent, Sir Kenneth, Legend of, 370 Kingsley, Charles, and Clovelly, 153 Kingswear, 347 Castle, 341 Lace Manufacture, 410, 418 Ladram Bay, 398 Lambert, General, and Drake's Island, 252 Lametry, Peninsula of, 201, 202 Landlord's Invitation, A., 127 Landslip, The, 431 Lane, Rev. Wm., 301 Lannacombe Mill, 322 Lantern Hill, 89 Laywell, The, 354 Leamington, Loss of the, 307 Lee, 104, Abbey, 34 Lee Bay (Lynton), 39 Lee and the Babbacombe Murder, 375 Mount, 383 Littleham, 391 | Logan, Lundy Island, 238 Lot's Wife, 376 Lundy Island, 184 Climate of, 187 People of, 189 Customs of, 190 Cultivation of, 191 Fauna of, 193 Birds of, 194 Fishing, 196 Landing on, 197 Voyage to, 200 Landing Place, 203 Lighthouse, 208 Church, 208 Ecclesiastical History of, 209 History of, 215 Pirates, 216 Proposed Harbour of Refuge, 234 Quarries, 239 Lyn, The, 16 Gorge, 27 Cliff, 28 Lynmouth, 28 Lynton, 30 Maidencombe, 377 Manor House, Lundy, 205 Marana, Wreck of the, 323 Mariscos, The, 213 Marisco Castle, 20 1, 211 Marsland Mouth, 182 Martinhoe, 41, Bishop Hannington at, 43 Marychurch, 374 Mayflower, The, 265 Meadfoot, 368 Mewstone, The, 283, 315, 348 Mining, 51, 57 Moridunum, Site of, 400, 423 Mortehoe, 109, Church, 113 Morte Point, 110, Stone, 110 Morty Well, 112 Mothecombe, 297 Mother Melldrum, 33 Mount Edgcumbe, 245 Mount Wise, 275 Mousehole and Mousetrap, 236 Mouths, 174 Mouth Mill, 161 Napoleon at Plymouth, 267 in Torbay, 354 Newton Ferrers, 290, Church, 293 Northam, 141, Burrows, 140 North Walk, 31 North End, Lundy, 229, 232 Noss, 292, Church, 294 Oar Stone, 368 Oddicombe Sands, 373, 376 Old Barrow, 13 Otter, The River, 396 Paignton, 360 Parson and Clerk Rocks, 382, 383 Parson, The, and the Wreck, 319 Parsons', The, Adventure, 199 Passmore, Lucy, 182 Pear Tree Point, 322 Pebble Ridge, 143 Peppercombe, 148 Petit Tor, 376 Petrifying Springs, 409 Phillpotts, Bishop, Anecdote of, 372 Pie, a Colossal, 258 Pirates at Lundy Island, 216 Plymouth, History of, 253 Sound, 246 Hoe, 246 Breakwater, 251 Citadel, 252 Sieges of, 265 Town of, 260 Leat, 262 Old Houses in, 275 Poole, and Sir John Hawkins, 334 Portledge, 147 Portlemouth, 318 Potwallopers, 144 Prawle, 320 Point, 320 Princess Mary, Story of the, 353 Prince Albert and the Breeches, 418 Pudleep Gurts, 20 Punchbowl, The, 226 Quarter Wall, The, 224 Quin and the Red Mullet, 269 and the Torbay Sole, 358 Raleigh, Sir W., Arrest of, 216, 264 at Hayes Barton, 393 Ralph's Hole, 311 Ramillies Cove, 310 Rapparee Cove, 87 Rat Island, 201, 203 Refreshments Scanty, 300, 302 Resurrection Bob, 354 Revelstoke Church, 296 Drive, 295, 296 Rillage Point, 79 Ringmore, 300 River Estuaries, 4 Rockham Bay, 109 Rodney Cove, 20 Rotten Pits, 311 Round Towers on Lundy, 228 Rowsedon, 434 Saint Michael's Chapel, 366 Saint Nectan, 172 Salcombe, 316 Castle, 316 Hill, 405 Regis, 406 Salterne Rose, 182 Samplers, 162 Sampson's Cove, 79 Sandy Way, 71 Saunton, 130 Down, 129 Court, 130 Seadogs' of Devon, 260 Seals' Cave, 219 Seakale, Introduction of, 331 Seaports, 5 Seaton, 423 Sewer Mill Cove, 312 Shagstone, The, 282 Shag Rock, The, 368 Shaldon, 377 Sherracombe, 49 Shipload Bay, 164 Shutter Rock, The, 220 Sid, The River, 403 Sidelands, The, 201, 236 Sidmouth, 401 Skeletons on Lundy Island, 207 Slapton, 332, Lea, 331 Sloe Gin, 77 Smallmouth Caves, 72 Smoothlands, 167 Smugglers, 311 Smugglers' Cave, A, 106, Lane, 382 Smuggler's Leap, The, 39 Spekesmouth (or Spokesmouth), 176 Staddon Heights, 281 Stair Hole Bottom, 314 Start Bay, 328, 335 Point, 322 Origin of Name, 326 Stoke Point, 295 Stoke St. Nectan, 169 Fleming, 336 Storehouse, 272 Sugar Loaf, The, 240 Tamar, The River, 244 Taw, Estuary of River, 133 Teign, Estuary of the, 378 Teignmouth, 77 Templar Rork, The, 238 Three Quarter Wall, 228 Thurlestone, The, 306 Church, 305 Tibbett's Hill, 238 Tobacco, Story of Introduction of, 394 Torbay, 350 Torcross, 330 Torquay, 363 Torre Abbey. 364 Torrs, The (Lynton), 24 Camp on, 26 (Ilfracombe), 102 Townstall Church, 344 Tracey, William de, 113, 121 Trayne Valley, 84 Trentishoe, 48 Tunisie, Wreck of the, 240 Turnchapel, 279 Valley of Rocks, 31 Varwell and William of Orange, 352 Vincent Pits, 310 Virgin's Well, The, 233 Wakeham, Sam, 283 Walls Hill, 373 Warcombe, 107 Warren, The, 385 Watcombe Terra Cotta Works, 376 Watermouth, 77, Castle, 78 Welcombe, 178, Mouth, 177 Wembury, 285 West Challacombe Farm, 55 Down Beacon, 392 Weston Mouth, 408 Westward Ho, 142 White Ale, 307, 333 Cliff, The, 422 Pebble Bay, 104 Wild Pear Beach, 61 Wildersmouth, 94 William of Orange, Landing of, 351 Windbury Head, 161 Wingate Combe, 19 Woodabay, 41 Woodbury Castle, 392 Woolacombe, 119 Sands, 123 Yealm, The River, 289 Yes Tor, 55 |