Lindridge (1818)

Croydon, Edward. Guide to watering places on the coast between the Exe and the Dart, including Teignmouth, Dawlish and Torquay. Teignmouth: E. Croydon, 1817. pp. 52-4.LINDRIDGE, two miles and a half from Teignmouth, situated on a limestone rock is a fine compact estate, consisting of arable, pasture, meadow, and wood land. It is a manor (within the manor) free both from the great and small tythes. The ancient house on Lindridge was a very large pile of building, which is said to have covered an acre of ground. Of this mansion the two wings and other buildings have been pulled down, the central part only remains. But this centre is a noble house; it has two elegant fronts, and the rooms within it are large and commodious.[…] The grounds at Lindridge are picturesque; and even to the observer of taste who has wandered amidst the scenery of Ugbrook, must afford new sources of pleasure - particularly the inequalities and light verdure of the lawn, over which the eye, though carried to a great extent, is yet relieved by flowing foliage, interposed in elegant variety: the woods cloathing [sic] the hills, or waving in dark masses of shadow from the chasms of the lime-rock; and the "gay diversities of green" exhibited in rich distinctiveness by the oak, the beech, the elm, the fir, the lime, the chesnut, the plane, and the walnut - all flourishing with uncommon vigor, and some unrivalled in Devonshire, for the beauty of their growth. [Text may be taken from a different source or edition than that listed as the source by Somers Cocks.]

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