Branscomb village (1819)
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Devon | West Country Studies | Portfolio 21 |
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Publication Details
Stirling, D. M. The beauties of the shore; a guide to the watering-places on the south-east coast of Devon. Exeter: D. M. Stirling, 1838. pp. 101, 106.Branscombe coasts the sea, between the parishes of Seaton and Salcombe Regis, and is particularly remarkable for the beautiful inequalities of its surface, and the highly picturesque character of its scenery. Several ridges of green hills leave the north, north west, and west extremities of the parish, and decline with increasing elevation in a regular manner into a triangular dale, which opens on the English Channel. In this secluded spot is a romantic village of twenty-five cottages, the vicarage house an ancient fabric, now the residence of the Rev. S. H. Peppin, the parish minister; and away, westward, about three parts of a mile from the village, in a defile of the hills stands the ancient parish church. [
]The parish consists of such a variety of hills and intervening vallies, clothed in rich pasturage and hanging woods, that an ingenious stranger might suppose that fair Devonia had sent specimens of her far-famed native beauties, to this sequestered nook of her eastern shore, for exhibition.[Text may be taken from a different source or edition than that listed as the source by Somers Cocks.]
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S55. J, E.I.: SKETCHES FROM NATURE OF SIDMOUTH AND ITS ENVIRONS.
WSL also has photocopy at L SC0232
1819