View from Dunsford Bridge (1800)

J. Malton
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Date
1800
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Rowe, Rev. Samuel. A perambulation of the antient and royal forest of Dartmoor, and the venville precincts, … Plymouth: C. E. Moat; London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co.; Hamilton, Adams & Co.; S. Rowe, 1856. pp. 142 - 143.[…] we shall make our way, by a beaten path,-where occasional difficulties will scarcely do more than increase the interest of the walk along this sequestered dell,-until we reach Clifford Bridge, where the old road from Moreton and Chagford passes eastward to Exeter and Crediton.The scenery here, though not so bold and romantic as at Fingle, is varied, pleasing, and characteristic. The river glides away in a graceful sweep below thickly-wooded acclivities on the right bank towards Dunsford. The country on the eastern side, though inclosed [sic] and cultivated, rises scarcely less boldly, and from several points commands highly-interesting views of the course of the Teign, as it flows down through its woodland gorge from the western moorlands. Prestonbury, with its bold, angular headland, scarped down to the river's brink, forms a prominent object in front of the deep, wooded glen beyond, while the giant bulk of Cosdon shuts in the scene, in the distant west.Crossing Clifford Bridge, we shall diverge from the Moreton road, and follow a pleasing rural lane on the right hand, which, at first, skirts along the eastern bank of the river, but soon striking into the inclosed country, leads us through the charmingly situated village of Dunsford, to Dunsford Bridge, where the features of natural beauty, though of similar character, are more striking than those it Clifford. We now find ourselves on the direct road from Exeter to Moreton, and as we mount the hill, looking down a precipitous slope to the river on the right, shall notice the peculiar characteristics of the scenery of the Upper Teign, in the steep cliffy, banks of reddish gray rock, shouldering back the course of the river,-the protruding banks being for the most part, woody. These characteristics prevail along the course of the Teign, in a greater or less degree, from Whiddon Park to Dunsford Bridge. Many patches of the shelving bank on the north side, studded with groups of low brushwood, with the gray debris of the rock scattered, between, will recall (on a small scale) the appearance of Fairfield Hill, above Rydal Mount, Westmorland, as seen from the top of Lougbrigg, on the opposite side of Rydal Water.[Text may be taken from a different source or edition than that listed as the source by Somers Cocks.]
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Aquatint
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131x181mm
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S025. KEENAN, Francis: A SELECT COLLECTION OF VIEWS IN THE COUNTY OF DEVON.
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From Dunsford Bridge
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Dates
1800