Bideford from Torrington Road (1854)
George Townsend
| Repository | Library | Shelf |
|---|---|---|
| Devon | West Country Studies | S SC0208 |
| Devon | TOR | I/S |
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SC0208
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CD 4 DVD 1
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Tugwell, The Rev. George. The North Devon hand-Book. 2nd Edition. Ilfracombe: John Banfield, 1856. p. 54.Here let us turn to the first chapter of Mr. Kingsley's Westward Ho! a work which, among many other excellencies, is unrivalled for the exquisite beauty of its word-painting. "All who have travelled through the delicious scenery of North Devon must needs know the little white town of Bideford, which slopes upwards from its broad tide-river paved with yellow sands, and many-arched old bridge where salmon wait for Autumn floods, toward the pleasant upland on the west. Above the town the hills close in, cushioned with deep oak woods, through which juts here and there a crag of fern-fringed slate; below they lower, and open more and more in softly-rounded knolls and fertile squares of red and green, till they sink into the wide expanse of hazy flats, rich salt marshes, and rolling sand-hills, where Torridge joins her sister Taw, and both together flow quietly toward the broad surges of the bar, and the ever-lasting thunder of the long Atlantic swell."[Text may be taken from a different source or edition than that listed as the source by Somers Cocks.]
Format
Steel l.engr vign
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65x100mm
Note
No. 132
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From Torrington Road
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Dates
1854