Torbay from Brixham (1821)
W. B. Cooke
| Repository | Library | Shelf |
|---|---|---|
| Devon | West Country Studies | L SC0240 |
| Devon | PLY | I/S |
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SC0240
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Pigot and co.'s pocket atlas, topography and gazetteer of England. Vol. 11. Devonshire. London and Manchester: J. Pigot and Co., 1840. p. 95.BRIXHAM, is a sea-port, market town and parish, in the hundred of Haytor; 202 miles from London, and 30 south from Exeter. Torbay, for which place this is the port, is decidedly the most beautiful and magnificent bay in the kingdom, and in time of war was the general rendezvous for his Majesty's channel fleet; and affords a safe and easily accessible roadstead for all descriptions of vessels. The pier or harbour is commodious and safe; and there is a complete watering-wharf, supplied from a reservoir of considerable extent, for watering the navy and merchant-vessels. It was here that the Prince of Orange, afterwards King William III, landed, Nov. 4th, 1688; the stone on which he first set his foot is still shewn by the inhabitants. In the roadstead the Bellerophon, Captain Maitland, anchored, after the fallen Emperor Bonaparte surrendered himself on board that ship. The largest fishery in the kingdom is carried on here, from whence the markets of London, Bath, Bristol, Exeter, &c. are supplied.[Text may be taken from a different source or edition than that listed as the source by Somers Cocks.]
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Copper l.engr
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158x240mm
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WSL also holds a hand coloured copy
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1821