Lundy Castle. Pl. 1 (1775)
D. L. (Engraver)
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| Devon | West Country Studies | S SC1431-1 |
Illustration Reference
SC1431-1
Location
CD 23 DVD 4
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Scope and Content
Grose, Francis. Antiquities of England and Wales. London: S. Hooper, 1785. Vol. VI. pp. 191-3.THE CASTLE IN THE ISLE OF LUNDY. Very little concerning this Island is to be met with in our Topographical Writers. Camden, among the other British Islands, thus slightly mentions it. "From hence we arrive at Caldey, in British, Inispir, pretty near the shore; and over-against it, more into the sea, is Londey, which faces Devonshire, being fourteen miles from the promontory of Hartness in that County. This is reckoned the larger of the two, and yet not much above two miles broad and a mile long, and is so pent in with rocks, that there is no coming to it but by one or two entrances. Here has formerly been a Fort, the ruins of which, as also the remains of St. Helen's Chapel, are still visible. It has been formerly plowed, as is manifest from the furrows; but now all their grain and profit arise from the sea-fowl, with which it abounds. No trees grow in it, except stinking elders; to which the starlings flock in such numbers, that one can hardly come at them for dung.The Castle stands on the south-east corner of the Island. By whom or at what time it was built, is not known.[Text may be taken from a different edition than that listed as the source by Somers Cocks.]
Format
Copper l.engr
Dimensions
98x147mm
Note
Reissue of SC1431 with variant title
Aspects
Exterior
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Dates
1775