Near Okehampton. From Mr.Lethbridge's garden (1846)
F. C. Lewis
| Repository | Library | Shelf |
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| Devon | West Country Studies | M SC1846 |
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SC1846
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CD 29 DVD 5
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Baring-Gould, S. A book of the west. Vol I. DEVON.London: Methuen, 1899. pp. 208-9.There were, in Okehampton, no manufacture, no business, no pleasure even, for it had no assembly balls, no neighbourhood. Okehampton was among towns what the earth-worm is in the order of animated nature, a digestive tube, but with the digestive faculty undeveloped. [
] But if Okehampton in itself considered as a town be ugly and uninteresting, the neighbourhood abounds in objects of interest, and the situation is full of beauty.Two brawling rivers, the East and the West Ockments, dance down from the moors and unite at the town; and if each be followed upwards scenes of rare wildness and picturesque beauty will be found.[Text may be taken from a different source or edition than that listed as the source by Somers Cocks.]
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Mezz etc
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148x194mm
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1846