Dartmouth, Devon (1831)
James Bingley
| Repository | Library | Shelf |
|---|---|---|
| Devon | West Country Studies | M SC0468 |
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SC0468
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CD 9 DVD 2
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Scope and Content
The route book of Devon: a guide for the stranger and tourist. Exeter: Besley, 1846. p. 222.The stranger, accustomed to the straight monotonous brick-and-mortar rows of a modern street will be much struck with the projecting fronts, carved brackets, and antique gables of this old but interesting town. The houses are built close on the edge of the large basin formed by the river Dart, and up the sides of the hill which rises directly from it. So abrupt is the acclivity of the hill on which the town stands, that from the level of the houses in the upper street, you can almost look down the chimnies of those in the street next below. There are two lines of streets one above the other, which are approached by steps or very steep openings at various distances apart.Dartmouth is a seaport, corporate town, and parliamentary borough, in the hundred of Coleridge.. The borough is called Clifton-Dartmouth-Hardness, originally three adjoining towns, and comprises the parishes of St. Petrox, St. Saviour, and Townstall.[Text may be taken from a different source or edition than that listed as the source by Somers Cocks.]
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Steel l.engr
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103x157mm
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From across river
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Dates
1831