CONTENTS
Charles G. Harper
CHAPTER I
PAGE
INTRODUCTORY
1
CHAPTER II
LYNMOUTH
9
CHAPTER III
LYNTON—THE WICHEHALSE FAMILY, IN FICTION AND IN FACT
21
CHAPTER IV
THE COAST, TO COUNTISBURY AND GLENTHORNE
35
CHAPTER V
THE NORTH WALK—THE VALLEY OF ROCKS—LEE “ABBEY”—WOODA BAY—HEDDON’S MOUTH—TRENTISHOE—THE HANGMAN HILLS
44
CHAPTER VI
COMBEMARTIN, AND ITS OLD SILVER MINES—THE CHURCH—WATERMOUTH CASTLE—HELE
71
CHAPTER VII
“’COMBE” IN HISTORY—MODERN ’COMBE—THE OLD CHURCH
84
CHAPTER VIII
LUNDY—HISTORY OF THE ISLAND—WRECK OF THE “MONTAGU”—LUNDY OFFERED AT AUCTION—DESCRIPTION
106
CHAPTER IX
CHAMBERCOMBE AND ITS “HAUNTED HOUSE”—BERRYNARBOR
123
CHAPTER X
LEE—MORTE POINT—MORTHOE AND THE TRACY LEGEND—WOOLACOMBE—GEORGEHAM—CROYDE—SAUNTON SANDS—BRAUNTON, BRAUNTON BURROWS, AND LIGHTHOUSE
131
CHAPTER XI
PILTON—BARNSTAPLE BRIDGE—OLD COUNTRY WAYS—BARUM—HISTORY AND COMMERCIAL IMPORTANCE—OLD HOUSES—“SEVEN BRETHREN BANK”—FREMINGTON—INSTOW AND THE LOVELY TORRIDGE
155
CHAPTER XII
KINGSLEY AND “WESTWARD HO!”—BIDEFORD BRIDGE—THE GRENVILLES—SIR RICHARD GRENVILLE AND THE “REVENGE”—THE ARMADA GUNS—BIDEFORD CHURCH—THE POSTMAN POET
177
CHAPTER XIII
THE KINGSLEY STATUE—NORTHAM—“BLOODY CORNER”—APPLEDORE—WESTWARD HO! AND THE PEBBLE RIDGE
197
CHAPTER XIV
ABBOTSHAM—“WOOLSERY”—BUCK’S MILL
205
CHAPTER XV
CLOVELLY—“UP ALONG” AND “DOWN ALONG”—THE “NEW INN”—APPRECIATIVE AMERICANS—THE QUAY POOL—THE HERRING FISHERY
208
CHAPTER XVI
MOUTH MILL AND BLACK CHURCH ROCK—THE COAST TO HARTLAND—HARTLAND POINT—HARTLAND ABBEY—HARTLAND QUAY
224
INDEX
245
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