Sidmouth, Devon (1831)
James Bingley
| Repository | Library | Shelf |
|---|---|---|
| Devon | West Country Studies | M SC2499 |
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SC2499
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CD 38 DVD 6
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Cooke, G. A. A topographical and statistical description of the county of Devon. London: Sherwood & Co., c.1830. pp. 122-3.It is about 159 miles from London, at the mouth of the little river Sid, in a bay between Exmouth and Lyme Regis. It has a bold open shore, and many of its newest houses are ranged upon the beach, which is defended from the attacks of the ocean by a natural rampart of pebbles, rising in four or five successive stages from the surface of the sea at low water. With every tide, the exterior parts of this shifting wall assume a different situation; are sunk either higher or lower, are driven to the east or west, according to the strength or direction of the wind. At low water considerable spaces of fine hard sand are visible; these afford a pleasant walk, but are frequently interrupted by collections of stones, and streams that find their way through the pebbles to their parent ocean: in dry weather, however, these streams are very inconsiderable. [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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96x152mm
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1831