South Devon and South Cornwall: With a Full Description of Dartmoor and the Isles of Scilly (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Baddeley, Mountford John Byrde

9780365449966: South Devon and South Cornwall: With a Full Description of Dartmoor and the Isles of Scilly (Classic Reprint)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0365449962 ISBN 13: 9780365449966

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2019

Excerpt from South Devon and South Cornwall: With a Full Description of Dartmoor and the Isles of Scilly

Among the narrower estuaries the Dart carries Off the palm, and the sail down it from Totnes to Dartmouth has a well-earned reputation for beauty. Next to it in attractiveness come the Fowey, with its beautiful Lerryn Creek, and the Looe Water, while the mouths Of the Yealm, the Erme, and the Avon, have one and all their particular charms. The little towns Of Fowey and East and West Looe at the entrance to their respective estuaries are almost unique in their situation and appearance but quaint est and most extraordinary of all Cornish places of habitation are the villages Of Polperro, 4 miles west Of Looe, and Gorran, 2� m. South of Mevagissey. How a population numbering some hundreds has contrived to squeeze itself into the bottom Of a valley hardly wide enough to accommodate a tiny stream, may be seen, but not imagined.

Of the numerous more or less popular watering -places which line this favoured coast, it Is unnecessary to say more than 1s said in the body Of the bo.ok Torquay, Teignmouth, Dawlish, Exmouth Sidmouth, Seaton, Lyme Regis, Budleigh Salterton, Dartmouth, Paignton, Salcombe, bigbury-on-sea, Fowey, Falmouth, St. Ives, Carbis Bay, and Penzance have all special claims on the seaside sojourner, and a remarkable increase in provision for visitors has taken place in the Cornish resorts.

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