Barnstaple ([1855?])

George Townsend
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Devon West Country Studies M SC0068
Devon TOR I/S
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SC0068
Location
CD 2 DVD 1
Publication Details
Date
[1855?]
Publisher
Scope and Content
Worth, R. N. Tourist's guide to South Devon: rail, road, river, coast, and moor. London: Edward Stanford, 1883. p.566.BARNSTAPLE, the principal port, market-town, and borough in North Devon, gives name to an archdeaconry and deanery, to a large union, and to a county court and polling district; and is pleasantly seated on the north-east side of the navigable river Taw, where it receives the small river Yeo, and is crossed by a handsome bridge of sixteen arches, below which the stream expands into a broad tidal estuary, abounding in salmon and other fish, and flowing seven miles westward, where it mixes its waters with those of the river Torridge, in Barnstaple or Bideford Bay.[…] The parish of Barnstaple comprises about 1096 acres of land, in the broad and fertile vale of the river Taw, which is to be traversed by a railway from Exeter, but only a few miles at each end have yet been constructed.[Text may be taken from a different source or edition than that listed as the source by Somers Cocks.]
Format
Steel l.engr vign
Dimensions
100x180mm
Note
Another version pub. c1860 by Besley with different foreground. Another copy, hand coloured, not scanned
Aspects
From across river
Counties
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Dates
1855