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are to be found the Policy-holders of the Company, satisfied in mind that, should the contingency happen against which they have insured, the consequent monetary loss to them and theirs will be made good immediately.
Since it was established in 1836 the
Company has paid over £l 12,000,000
in Claims and to-day its Assets
exceed £20,000,000.
Head Office LONDON
1. DALE STREET Chief Office
LIVERPOOL I.CORNHILL, E.C.3
Branche* and Agencies throughout the World General Manager and Secretary ' HUGH LEWIS
THE
LIVERPOOL & LONDON & GLOBE
INSURANCE COMPANY LIMITED
I:
FIRE - LIFE - ACCIDENT MARINE
^
NATIONALPROVINGIALBANK
LIMITED.
Subscribed Capital - £43,447,080
Paid-up Capital - - £9,309,416 Reserve Fund - - £9,000,000
HEAD OFFICE :
15, BISHOPSGATE, LONDON,
E.G. 2.
OVER 1,100 OFFICES IN ENGLAND AND WALES.
TRAVELLERS' CHEQUES and LETTERS OF CREDIT
issued available throughout the UNITED KINGDOM and in all parts of the WORLD.
Affiliated Banks:
COUTTS & CO.
GRINDLAY & CO., LTD.
AUXILIARY: LLOYDS AND NATIONAL PROVINCIAL FOREIGN BANK LIMITED.
WESTMINSTER
BANK LIMITED
Authorized Capital ' £33,000,000 Paid-up Capital * £9,003,718 Reserve * * * £9,003,718
LETTERS OF CREDIT and Circular Notes available in all parts of the World are issued, also Circular Letters of Credit payable throughout the United Kingdom
THE liANK is represented by Branches or tAgents
in all the Principal Cities and Toivns of the
United Kingdom and has Correspondents
throughout the World
Head Office
41 LOTHBURY, LONDON, E.C.2
\ A FEW REASONS ^ for the esteem in which the
I NORWICH UNION
^MUTUAL LIFE OFFICE
is held by the thoughtful insuring public:
(1) Office Founded 1808.
(2) Funds - - - . £19,989,922
(3) Increase of Funds during
1922 .... £1,432,591
(4) Total Income - - - £3,565,975
(5) Number of Policies issued 9,820
(6) Amount insured - - £7,255,538
(7) Reserve Basis of Life and
Endowment Insurance
business - - - £2 10s. Od.%
(8) Rate of Interest earned
after deduction of tax £5 Is. 3d.",'j
(9) Profit Margin over rate
of Interest reckoned on £2 lis. 3d.°o
Write for Prospectus and latest Report to the Secretary.
HEAD OFFICE - - NORWICH
Series, 192; 2 j
LONDON. W.C.I.
WHITE HALL
RESIDENTIAL HOTELS
RUSSELL SQUAK]-: (Close to the British Museum)
WHITE HALL. BLOOMSBURY SQUARE. Nos. 2, 3. 4 & 5. MONTAGUE STREET. Nos. 70,71 & 72. GUILFORD STREET. Nos. 21 & 22. MONTAGUE STREET. Nos. 15 & 16. BEDFORD PLACE. Nos. 18, 19, & 20, MONTAGUE STREET. Nos. 22 & 23, CORAM STREET. No. 13, WOBURN PLACE.
TERMS ON APPLICATION to the MANAGERESS AT EACH Hi TEL.
DEAN 81 DAWSON,
Established over 50 years. LIMITED.
Travel Organisers.
SPRtNG, SUMMER AND WINTER HOLIDAYS AT HOME OR ASROAD.
Escorted Parties to Holland, Belgium, France, Switzerland, Italy, Dalmatia, Austria, &c.
INCLUSIVE TOURS ARRANGED.
Cruisss Round the Coast, to Norway, Canary Islands, &c.
BANKING AND FOREIGN EXCHANGE.
Travellers' Cheques issued in Sterling and Francs.
Passports and Visas Obtained.
Steamship Passages Booked to All Parts of the World.
Aerial Travel and Motor Ccach Tours.
WRITE FOR PROGRAMIVIE OF TOURS TO
DEAN 81 DAWSON, LTD.
84, Piccadilly - - LONDON, W.I.
BRANCHES IN PRINCIPAL TOWNS.
Somethinq New in Motor Coaching
introducing iheS I LENTCU I DE"
%//iCKiE BOY yfDDS ONE MORE JOY TO THE dOYS OF THE OPEU fiOAO.
OV5C
SILEHTCUIDE
PJITENT£0 Age. TTl^DE M^Ak A NOVEL INVENTION COUPLED WITH SPECIALLY PREPARED ITINERAAIES FOR IMPARTING & RETAINING INFORMATION IN A PARTICULAR & PLEASING MANNER ABOUT THE MANY PL ACES OF INTEREST VDU MAY EITHER VISIT OR PASS EN ROUTE ON YOUR FAVOURITE . MOTOR COACH TOURS
^ustwhat
is wanted
to make -
I Motor (bacMrfQ
a success
f/o need to be in ignorance JVo need to ask^
r/:c"SILE!WTCUIDE'Ve//5 yOU. SILENTLY
of ihe. places through which you pa: s You will find it installed on the best- y,e,,^ w^.nn .-r-/ Mctor Coaches in most Holiday Resorts AoK FOR. IT!
The Most Comfortable Tea Rooms.
1
BRIGHT0N~14, East St. BRISTOL— 24, College Green. CAIVIBR9DGE— 48, Sidney St. CHELTENHAM— 8, Promenade. CHESTER— 27, Eastgate St. CROYDON— 44, George St. DUBLIN— 84, Grafton Sf. EASTBOURNE— 23, Terminus
Rd. EDINBURGH— 120 Princes St. FOLKESTONE- 115, Sandgate
Rd. GLASGOW— 99, Buchanan St. GUILDFORD— 144, High St.
HOVE— 47, Western Rt!. LEEDS— 32, Bond St. LINCOLN— 9, Bailgate. LIVERPOOL— 33, Bold St.
„ 10, Dale St.
„ 1,Raneiagh St.
MANCHESTER— 42, King St. OXFORD— 24, CornmarketSt. PLYMOUTH— 50, George St. SOUTHEND— 138, High St. SOUTH SE A— 72,Palmerston Rd. SUTTON— 53, High Street. WINDSOR— 19, Thames St.
LONDON and DISTRICT.
209, Regrent St., W. 203, Regent St., W. 31, High St., Kensington,
W. 131, Queen's Rd.,
Bayawater, W. Barons Court Station, W. 27, The Broadway,
Ealing, W. 59, Hi?h Street, Netting
Hill Gate, W. 113, Victoria Street, S.W. 190a, Sloane St., S.W. 42,Buckin-liam Palace Rd., S.W.
4, Onslow Place,
S. Kensi.ngton, S.W. 82, Gloucester Rd., S.W. 38, Hill Rd., Wimbledon, S.W. 71, George Street, Richmond,
358, Strand, W.C.
S6, Southampton Row, W.C.
289, Finchley Rd.,
hampstead, N.W.
131a, Finchley Rd., Swiss
Cottage, N.W.
Willcsden Green Stn., Met.
RIy., N.W.
52, Golders Green Rd., N.W. 101, Broadway,
Chcklewood, N.W. 68, St. Paul's Churchyard, 1, Walbrook, E.G. [E.C. 31, Gracechurch St., E.C. 51, Fenchurch St., E.C.
42, Old Broad St., E.G.
5, Broad St., Station, E.G. 53, Queen Victoria St., E.G.
43, Kolborn Viaduct, E.G. 28, Gopthall Avenue, E.C. 28, St. Swithin's Lane,
E.C. 56, Cresham St., E.C.
wccts, Cakes
#
ean be obtained from AGENTS IN ALL PRINCIPAL TOWNS.
LIFE ASSURANCE PLUS—!
The Australian JTutual Provident Society is Mutual. That is to ?av. all Surplus, without deduction, belongs to the Policy-holders themselves and is distributed yearly. Moreover, the Society, established in 1849, has been toi many years the largest and most prosperous British Mutual Life Office. Why is this ? Because it offers to Assurers the Acms of Security and Profit, and because its satisfied members are its best advertisement. Why are policies with the .A.M. P. Society so profitable ? Because, while its premium rates are below the average, it possesses in a unique degree the combination oi a low expense rate, a high interest return, and a
favourable mortality e.xperience.
The A.M. P. Society should be covering you. You will be sent lull
particulars on application. Please mention this Publication.
EVERY YEAR A BONUS YEAR.
Assets £[3,000,000. Annual Income, £7,800,000.
New Ordinary Business for 1923, £12,205,2 j7.
Cash Surplus (Ordinary Department) divided for
IQ2J, £1,750,000.
AUSTRALIAN MUTUAL PROVIDENT SOCIETY
London Office: 73-76, King William Street, E.C.4.
W. C. FISHER, Manager for the United Kingdom.
TORQUAY, DARTMOOR & ALL RESORTS.
If you cannot get suited write to us enclosing Stamped and Addressed
Envelope. Fee according to needs. Be sure to state requirements
fully (WE DO NOT SEND LISTS) and mention this Guide Boo'i.
SATISFACTION "OR MONEY BACK.
We are FAMOUS FOR FARMHOUSES (Illus Booklet 1/-)
HOLIDAYS INFORMATION BUREAU
£OOA-/.yG oi'fici:s for iorq'' -i v /.\ .:o largj- roirxs. '7ln%^ : "Holidays Bureau 575 Torquay." INVALIDS, &c., A SPECIALITY.
LONDON
IN THE CENTRE OF EVERYTHING
The OPERA HOTEL, Bow Street
STRAND, W.C.2.
BEDROOM AND BREAKFAST £t I ft
No extras of any kind. ^^/ ^^
Telegrams: " Opsraf ul, Loadon." Telephone: Gerrard 3625.
Temperance Permanent Building Society,
4, 6, & 8, LUDQATE HILL, LONDON, E.G.
Prompt Advances. Light Repayments. Easy Redemptions. Low Costs.
ABSOLUTE SECURITY FOR INVESTORS.
Shares, ^'i per cant. Deposits, 4 per cent.
RESERVE FUNDS exceed £210,000.
EDWARD WOOD, Manager.
LOSE YOUR HOLIDAY
YOUR LIFE SUFFERS. LOSE YOUR LIFE
YOUR WIFE SUFFERS
(AND YOUR CHILDREN ALSO).
PROTECT THEM
By INSURING with the
Pearl Assurance Company,
HIGH HOLBORN, W.C.l/""^^°
Accumulated Funds - £29,400,003 Claims Paid - - - £35,470,000
G. SHRUBSALL, Managing Dikfxtor.
HAGKBRIDGE BOARDING & QUARANTINE KENNELS
20 minutes from Victoria, Southern Rly. (Brighton Section). FULLY APPROVED UNDER THE MINISTRY OF
AGRICULTURE REGULATIONS FOR '
X]VEX»02ES.M7JE3X> X^OC^-S.
(UiiJcr tlie iManagement of the Committee of the Dogs' Home, I'.attersca.)
These thoroughly Up-to-date Kennels are always available
lor the reseption oi Dogs coming from Abroad or tor
hOAKOERS. anJ are unler the control ol a resident
"^^~^~^~" qualiiied Veterinary Surgeon.
Terms tor boarding imported dogs are from 10/- to 12/6 per week
(including veterinary supervision), and full particulars may be obtained
from — Inspection invited.
G. GUY S. ROWLEY, Secretary, Dogs' Home, Hackbridge, Surrey.
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Somethinrr Worth Knowing.
CHURCH of ENQLASS^D
TE:/1?I:RANCE and GEf^ESAL PERrvlANENT
BUILDiNG SOCIETY
(Incorporated 1382'.
Telcpfione : CENTKAL 5927.
'J'flcgr.Tiiis : " THRIFTDOM, LONDON."
Established to enable the Thrifty Wa^e Earners (o invest theiv Savings with sa'ety at a better rate oi Interest than that giiJcn by the t;a7in!?3 Bank.
5
A GOOD INVESTMENT.
5 / Interest paid on Shares of £25 eaah. / Siil>S( riptioii Sj.ucs pay.iblitiy monthly
/r\ lii-t.iliiK'nti of 3'- .itid upwards have similar interest added each year.
D / Interest paid on all Deposits.
/ Shares and Deposits withdrawable in
/ full at short notice. .\ll Interest paid
'O 1-KI;E of IXCOMK 1A.\.
ASSETS - over £590.000
II )("',' f<r />-^s/.,T/i(s !n Die Sccicluy (l)cpi. 25),
Thriftdom," 2G, King William Street, London, E.C.4.
INSURANCE SOCSETY LIMITED,
No. 114, CHANCERY LANE, LONDON, \V.C.2.
Caiital Redemption, Personal AcciJent and Disease. Burglary.
Fidelity Guarantee. Workmen's Compensaticr, ncludin? Dome3tic Servants.
Pioperiy i/wuer s Indemnity. Third Party. Motor Car. Plate Glass.
HOUSEHOLDERS' & HOUSEOWNERS' COMPREHENSIVE POLICIES.
BONOS. The Directors desire to draw special attention to the fact that the Fidelity Bonds of this Society are accented by His Majesty's Government and in the High Court of Justice.
CH.AKI.ICS PLUMFFRE JOHNSO.N, Esq., J.P., Chairm.m
(I'oriiierly of Johnson, RajnioiKi-Barker & Co., Lincoln's Inn).
K0MI;R WILLIAMS, Esq., D.L., J.P, Vicc-Chairmaii
(Formerly of Williams & James), Norfolk House. Thames Embankment.
Seiratary -H. T. OWEN LEOG.A IT /■.sFisiaiit bccretaiy— \V . R LAWRENXE.
SECURITY UNSURPASSED.
Ilvcry f.icility is afTorilcd for the transaction of Insurance IhisIiii-ss on the mnit 'avo ir. able terms, and surveys, where necessary, are undertaken by the .Society free of cllari^e. rrospectuses and Proposal Forms and full ii\forniation m.aybe had at the Society's Otiice. 'Ihc business of this Society is confined to the United Kingdom.
vii
For ov:r fifty years a tin. tube or bo'tle of VAS:r!ine ' Petroleum Jeily has b:en indjsp-n- sable to every weil-orginised house Its prompt applrcation m cases of cuts. scr.-p?s. bums and minor ac:idents ofte i p events s n . us re5ulis.
Also for internal use, for the relief of coughs and sore throats.
Write for Book'ef : 'For Health and Beauty.' FREE.
CHESEBROUGII MANFG. CO., COXSD. \ViLLi;sDEN Junction, LONDON', N.W.io
THE QUEEN'S HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN,
HACKNEY ROAD. LONDON, E.2,
and LITTLE FOLKS HOME, BEXHILL.
President - - HRH. THE DUKE 0!^ YORK, KG.
170 })eds. Over 129,000 attendances of Sick and Injured Children in a year.
Endowment Income £1,500. Expenditure £33,000 a year- Co/. Lord Win. Cecil. C.V.O., Chainnin. T. Glcnlon-Kerr, Sec. Haitkern: Iiarcl<iY<:. Lomhnrd Strc:l.
VITALI S ITALIAN WINES'
Vi tali's C3Hi-A-3xr'a7i,
SPARKLING ASTI
and "VJESitiVEOijrTcia:
ARE HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.
At the Leading Hotels & Restaurants and of all Wine Merchants.
Wholesale Depot: 26, Upper Thames Street, London, E.G.
FREE CHURCH TOURING GUILD
GRAND ITALIAN TOUR, via St. Gothard and
Simplon. Short Sea Route.
X'HMCI';, STRES.\ (tar Lake Mageiore).
GARI)()\E-RIVIER.\ (for Lake Garda).
U'<;aN(), 14 days, Excursions, MIL.AN, LAKE
C(JMO (Menaggio, Bcllagio).
LAKE OF LUCERNE, m days' Hotels.
Extensions Grindelwald, Engeiberg, txc.
BRUGES, YPRES, ZEEBRUGGE, including journey
and 7 davs' Hotels, with 3 Excursions.
BELGIAN SEA -COAST HOLIDAY, including
joiirney and 14 days' Hotels, with 3 Excursions.
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12 0 |
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10 0 |
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5 0 |
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7 0 |
Secretary, 129, IMemorial Hail, Farringdon Street, E.C.4
Vrieiiilic
DR. BARNARDO S HOMES
7,308 Children Need Your Help.
WILL YOU SEND THEM HALF-A CROWN for FOOD!
e Yourself th^ Joy of Helping tc. Feed One DeslituU-
LUtle One. [IKS and Orders payable "Dr. Barnardo's Homes Eol \ ,"' and cro£ied, ^nav be addressed to the Hunor.^ry surer, Howard Williams, Esq. (Dept. W..\' ), ii-26, otepney C.iufsway, London, i;.i.
IX
Shaftesbury Society
AND
RAGSSD SCHOOL UNION.
Patrons : Thtir Majesties the Kin? and the Queen.
■p ( Edwin Dodd, Hsn.
Ireasurers - ■.,,,, c i i^
I NValter Scoles, Esq.
EIGHTY YEAl^S SERVICE FOR CHILD WELFARE.
140 Branches and Cripple Parlours in
POOREST LONDON
ifiijTHIS GREAT ,^^ WORK \J URGENTLY Plea.eHel,! NEEDS:
ARTHUR BLACK,
L egacies
S ubscriptions
D ©nations.
Gen. S^c, John Kirk House, ^r. John St.. London, W.C.i.
Best and Most Up-to-date Maps Published.
A Complete List of Maps and Plans of all Districts in
England, Scotland, and Ireland, will be sent on receipt
of request to the Publishers —
JOHN BARTHOLOMEW & SON, Ltd., The Geographical Institute, EDINBURGH.
DELICIOUS FRENCH COFFEE.
& BLUE
For Breakfast & after Dinner.
lu making, use LESS QUANTITY, it bein;j so much stronger than ORDINARY COFFEE.
PROTECTION AGAINST LOSS
F9RE, BURGLARY, SICKNESS,
AOCBDENT, WORKBVSEN'S
COMPENSATION^, Ac.
CAN BE OBTAINED BY INSUIUXG WITH THE
Prudential
ASSURANCE COMPANY, LSMBTED
THE
"ibeartb aiiMbomc" POLICY
lias been specially designed 1:o meet the needs of the
HOUSEHOLDER.
Chief Office: HOLBORN BARS, LONDON, E.C.I
ALL CLASSES OF LIFE ASSURANCE BUSLNESS TRANSACTED.
ON THE RIVER
LAKES, BROADS, or SEA
the greatest pleasure is derived from the use of
The Evinrude Detachable Motor
Slipped on to the stern of any Rowboat — your own or hired — without any alteration to the wood- work, you at once convert her into a sturdy reliable Motor Boat.
Requires no Previous Knowledge and no Skilled Attention.
Running Cost Fractional.
Cuts out fag of rowing. Takes you there and brings you back without effort.
GLORIOUS SPORT AT iWINIMUM EXPENSE.
Your money retu iiecl :n full if not satisfied. Wriie To'day for Catalogue (W.L.) to
EVINRUDE MOTOR Co. (ENG.) Ltd.,
107, WATERLOO ROAD. LONDON, S.E.I. 'Phone Citv 5576 Tcls., " Ei^inrude, Watloo, London."
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EVER'RMAO¥
ELECTRIC LAMPS & BATTERIES
THE Ever-Ready Coy. have an established reputation for the manufacture of soundly constructed and well finished portable electric lamps and dry batteries, which give efficient and reliable service. Electric lamps for every modern purpose and convenience, and high-grade dry batteries and accuiriulators for wireless are incladed in these well known specialities. Illustrated lists sent on application.
The Ever-Ready Coy. (Gt. Brit.) Ltd., (E. V. Bept.).
Hercules Place, London, N.7.
OBTAINABLE FROM ALL HIGH-CLASS STORES, ETC. LOOK FOR OUR TRADE-MARK WilhN PURCHASING.
l^STCIfllll»
"THE CREAM OF FASCINATION."
'EASTERN FOAM ' stands for perfection in Skin Cream. Used night and morning, and after washing it will impart to the poorest skin a softness of textnre and a clear, healthful bloom, such as can be obtained
jby no other means.
, AT HOLIDAY TIMrS •Eastern toain ' is
11k; .-itcLt, of _ ,
tusalt-Liacuair ami tlie ylart- of the sun. After anj' exercise it isdeli^lU- Iviily refreshing an J always be uitifyiny;. 0/ all Clieinisls ani Stores, Per a./'* Pot Away — at homei/^ Uk ' Eastern Foam '\'^^
\mfmsmiMmmmBm
For tree tamiJie senu l*d. stamped and addressed enve;ope to :
The British Drns. Houses Ltd., Graham Street, Londuii, A'.i.
EXMOUTH.
If
GLORIOUS DEVON."
Unique in Situation and Climate.
IDEAL alike for Pleasure or Health. Pine Beaches, Splendid Sands. Safe Bathing, Perfect for Children. Daily Excursions by Road, Moorland, River and Sea. Golf, Tennis (Winter and Summer Courts), Cricket, Bowls, Boat- ing, River and Sea Fishing and Seasonal Amusements. Unlimited Pure Soft Water. Fine Hotels, Boarding Houses, Apartments. Guide and Lists Free (Stamp 2d'. Information Bureau (Dept. W.L.), 6, ROLLE STREET, EXMOUTH.
Combat the ill effects of Dusty Roads, Atmospheric Changes and tendency to Catarrh by using PROCTOR'S
FINELY PT US PASTILLES
(Broncho- Laryng^eal)
ASTHMA
CATARRH
COUGH
CHEST
THROAT
VOICE
A Boon to Motorists, Travellers, Singers, Speakers, Teachers, &c. 1/3 per Box from Chemists and Stores.
Proctor's Pinclyptus Depot, Ncwcasile-oivTyne.
I Royal Exchange Assurance i
Incorporated a.d. 1720.
FIRE, LIFE, SEA, ACCIDENT, BI:RGLARY, EMI'LOYERS' LIABIllTY,
MOTOR CAR, PLATE GLASS,
LIVE STOCK, THIRD PARTY,
FIDEIITY GUARANTEES, LIFT, BOILER, MACHINERY, TRUSTEE AND EXECUTOR.
= Apply for/ull particutars of aU classes of In
'. to the Secretary.
m Head Office - - ROYAL EXCHANGE, LONDON, E.C.3 M
■ to any o/t/:e Corporatio/i s Blanches throu^JioHt the country.
.Is^cn
^illillilllllilllllllllllllllllllllllillllllillllllllli^
Satisfaction Guaranteed or Money Refunderf.
ACTS IN 30 MINUTES STOPS ^.^1 Jl.gjMi,^ PREVENTS
:^te:ik^fciii;is;
No Cocaine or other Harmful Drugs . . .
For Sea, Air ^ Train Sickness
Home Price 4/2 and 8/4 MOTHERSILL REMEDY COMPANY. LIMITED,
92, FLEET STREET, LONDON, E.C.4.
A.\D 01- .ILL CJ/LM/S/.S THKOUGnoUT THE IfORl.D.
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1
OF TlIK
ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE BOAT INSTITUTION THREE CONTRASTS.
When the Institution \vas When the Institution corn- founded in t824 there were pleted its Century in 1924 S9 Life-boats on the coasts ^^^^i"^ were 229 Lifc^boats , , ^ . . , on the coasts of the British of the British Isles. Isles
Cost of the l'"irst Life-boat. Cost of the Latest Life-boat
£149 £18,000
Cost of the Service in tlie Co-t of the Service in the I'irot Year of the Century. La-.t Year of the Century.
£1,810 £234,335
But the Life-boat Sei'\'ice is still, as it was when it was founded, a Voluntary Service, maintained with- out financial help from the State, by the
FREE GIFTS OF THE BRITISH PEOPLE.
\\'ill YOU become one of its
IVIILLEON 5/- SUBSCRIBERS
And Remsmber the Life Boats in your Will ?
On an average, 1 1 LIVES have been rescued
from Shipwreck
EVERY WEEK FOR 1 0O YEARS.
LoKu IlAKKOwnv, Ceokge F. Shee, M.A.,
Hou. Treasurer. Secrelary.
ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION,
Life-boat House, 22, C^iaping Cross Road, London, W.C.2.
T 1-1 E
TANDA
OF SOUTH AFRICA, limited,
(with which is incorporated the
AFRICAN BANKING CORPORATION, LTD.)
Bankers to the Government of the Union of South Africa in Cape Province ; to the Imperial Government in S. Africa ; ani to the Administration of Rhodesia.
AUTHOeSSEO GAP3TAL £10,000,000 SUBSGRSBED CAPITAL £8,916,660
PAID-UP CAPITAL £2,229,165
RESERVE FUND £2,833,335
UNCALLED CAPITAL £6,£87,495
£11,>J09,995
Board of Directors.
William Reicrson Arbuthnot, Esq. I Solomon B. Joel, Esq., j.p.
Sir D. M. Barbour, K.c.s.i., k.c.m.g. | Horace Peel, lisq.
Edward Clifton Brown, Esq. j Rt. Hon. The Earl of Selbonie, k.g.
•Stanley Christopherson, Esq. j William Smart, Esq.
Robert E. Difkiason, Esq. Rt. Hon. Lord Sydenham, g.c.s.i.,
James Fairbairn Finlay, Esq., c.s.i. | c.c.m.g., c.c.i.e.. g.b.e.
Head Office: 10, Clements Lane, Lombard Street, E.C.4.
London Wall Branch : 63, London Wall, E.G. 2. West End Branch : 9, Northumberland Avenue, W.C.2.
(Opposite the Royal Colonial Imlilule.)
New York .'Vgency : 67, WALL STREET.
H.-^MBURG Agen-cy : Bank of British Wist .■\frica, Limited,
43-33, SCHAUENBURGER STRASSE.
OVER 320 BRANCHES, SUB-3RANGHES & AGENCIES in S. & E. AFRICA.
BAXKIXG BUSINESS TRANSACTED IN ALL PARTS of the WORLD.
EXECUTORSHIPS & TRUSTEESHIPS UNDERTAKE^)!.
DEPOSITS RECEIVED for fixed periods at rates which may be ascertained on application.
Every faciiity afforded for the Development of Trade witii ail Parts
of South and East Africa, the United States of America, and the
Continent of Europe.
Dociinwntanj Credits Anunqpci. Enquiries limited.
'1 0 face half-tiilei
BIDEFORD AND NORTH-WEST DEVON
Holidays on the Thames
STEAMER TRIPS.
Through go miles of beautiful Thames Scenery by the Oxford and King- ston Steamers. Service twice daily (except Sun- «■ ~3s days) both up and down J :J^ stream between Oxford and Kingston from middle of May till end of September.
The through journey occupies two days each way, but passengers can join or leave the boat at any of the locks or regular stopping places. In this most pleasant of ways visits can be made to many attractive and historic places such as Hampton Court, Windsor, Maidenhead, Marlow, Henley, Pangbourne, Goring, Oxford, etc. Combined Rail and Steamer Bookings from many G.W.R. and S.R. Stations. Time Tables giving full particulars of arrangements, fares, etc., post free, 3d.
CAMPING HOLIDAYS
Delightful Days on the River in Punts, Rowing Boats, Canoes or Cabin Cruisers.
Ample Protection in case of wet weather, and Waterproof Tents entirely covering boat for sleeping at nifiht. All Camping Requisites supplied. A RIVER TOUR WITHOUT HOTEX BILLS, Boats may be hired at Oxford for the trip to Kingston at charges which include return Cartage.
STEAM AND MOTOR LAUNCHES for Hire by the Day or Week, and also for the Trip.
BOATS, PUNTS, CANOES, suitable for RIVERS, LAKES, and PRIVATE WATERS.
A large selection, both New and Second-hand, kept in readiness for Sale or Hire.
Illustrated Price Lists may be had on application.
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GO e^4(5 MAPS AND PLANS
Bideford, Barnstaple and District . . Frontispiece
Sketch Map showing areas included in North Devon
Guides . • . • PP- xvi-xvii, Introduction
Plan of Bideford Faces p. i
Plan of Barnstaple .... Faces p. i, Barnstaple
Plan of Ilfracombe .... Faces p. i, Ilfracombe
North Devon Coast and Pait of Somerset
Faces p. 21, „
The Bristol Channel . . . pp. 24-25, ,,
LuNDY Island ....../>. 40, „
CONTENTS
PAGE
Introduction : Scope of Book — Chief Holiday Centres — " The Combes of the West " — Rail, Steamer and Motor Routes — Climate — Sport — Golf — Motoring — A Literary Note — Hotels and Tariffs ...... ix
BIDEFORD.
Bideford ......... i
Excursions from Bideford —
Northam . . . . . . . . • 13
Appledore ......... 14
Instow ......... 16
Westward Ho ! . . . . . . . .17
Abbotsham Cliffs . . . . . . -19
Wear Gifford ........ 20
Great Torrington . . . . . . .20
Monkleigh ......... 23
Littleham 24
Clovelly ......... 25
Mouth Mill to Hartland Point . . . .31
Hartland ......... 33
Morwenstow ......... 38
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PAGE BARNSTAPLE.
Barnstaple ......... x
Walks and Excursions from Barnstaple . . .16
ILFRACOMBE.
Ilfracombe ......... I
Excursions from Ilfracombe ...... 16
LuNDY Island ......... 38
INDEX ....... See end of Guide
Directory of Hotels, Boarding-Houses, Schools, Estate Agents and Business Establishments in Great Britain
Sc'e after p. viii and at end
ILLUSTRATIONS
BIDEFORD.
FACES PAGE
Bideford and the Torridge . 4
The Church .... 3
Kingsley Statue ... 5 Bideford from East-the-
Water 12
Northam 13
Appledore and Instow . . 16
Instow Quay . . . . 17
Appledore Quay . . . 17
Westward Ho ! . . . . 18
Wear Gifford . . . . 19 Frithclstock Church and
Abbey ruins . . .19
Abbotsham 22
Clovelly, from the Hobby
Drive 23
" Up Along ". . . . 26
FACES PAGE
ClovcUy : His Majesty's Mails 27
The Hobby Drive . . 30 Black Church Rock, Mouth
Mill 31
Waterfall at Speke's Mill . 31 Hartland Lighthouse . . 32 Hartland Abbey • • • 33 Screen, Stoke Church, Hart- land 33
Breaking Waves, North
Cornish Coast . . -34
The Coast at Bude • . • 35
Morwenstow Church . . 38
Morwenstow Vicarage . . 39 Hawker's Cottage, Coombe
Valley 39
Tonacombe 39
BARNSTAPLE.
Taw Vale Parade ... 4
Queen Anne's Walk . . 4 Parish Church and Old
Grammar School . . 5
Taw Bridge 12
Rock Park 12
Pilton Church . . . . 13 Bishops Tawton . . .13
Tawstock Church .
Tawstock Court
Screen and Rood Loft,
Atherington Church Swimbridge Church
Font and Canopy Saunton Sands ....
1 8
19
23
ILFRACOMBE.
Parade
and Wilders
from an aero
Ilfracombe Capstone Capstone mouth, plane The Bathing Pools The Tors Walks . Below the Capstone Pro- menade .... Hillsborough Hill from
the Pier .... 14 The coast road to Lee . 15
Lee Bay 16
Old Cottages, Lee . . .17 Mortehoe Church . . .17
13
an aero-
Bull Point Lighthouse . Watermouth Castle Combe Martin :
plane view .... Great and Little Hangman Hunter's Inn .... Heddon's Mouth Woody Bay .... Lj-nton and Lynmouth Lynmouth Harbour Lundy Island: Landing- place
Templar Rock
Slipper Rock ....
17, 18 • 19
31 32 32 33 36 37
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Ab«iTitw7th Ald«barfh-on-8«i Angloaey and North Wilw B&nfor, &o. Barmontta, fto. BarniUple and H.W. Devon Bath, W«lls, Sto. Bettws-T-Coed, Snowdon, Aa. BeihiU and Diatrlot Bidetord, Weatward Ho I ««. Bocnor and 8.W. Sauex Boornemoath and Diitrlol Brecon and Sontb Walu Bridlington and Dlitriol Bridport, Weit Bar, &a. Brighton and Hot* Broads, Tba
Broadstain and W.E. Kent Bade and North Cornwall Budlelgh Salterton, &o. Biuton and Peak Diatriol Canterborr and N.E. Kent CardlO and South Wales CamarTon and North Walaf Channel Islands Chichester and S.W. Sossas Clavedon and Diitriot Oolwyn Bay Convrar, Deganwy, &c. Criccleth and Cardigan Bay Cromer and District Dartmoor Dartmoath
DawLsh and I.E. Dctoii Deal, Walmer, &o. Dover, St. Margaret's Bay, &0, Eastbourne, Sealord, &c. K-ieter and 8.E. Devon Eimoutb and District Falmouth and 8. Cornwall Felixstowe and District Filey and District Folkestone, Sandgata, &e. Fowey and Soath Cornwall Harrogate and District Hastings, St. Leonards, &a. Herslord and Wye Valley Heme Bay, Whitstable, &«. Hythe, Littlestone, &c. Illracombe and H, Davon Isle ol Man Isle ol Wight Lake District. The
BCOTIiAND. Aberdeen, Daeslde, &c. Edinbnrfb and District Glasgow and the Clyde Highlands, The Inverness and N. Highlandf Oban and W. Highland!
MUD WALBB.
Leamington, Warwick, fto.
Llltlahampton and S.W. Sniatl
Liverpool, Blrkonbead, &o.
Llandrlndod WeUa, &o.
Llandndno and N. Wales
Llangollen, Corwen, Bala. *•,
London and Environs
Looa and South OornwaO
Lowaitolt and District
Lyma Begls and District
Lynton and Lynmoulh
Ualvem and District
tiargaU and N.E. Kent
Hatlock, Dovedale, Ste.
Kinehead, Eimosr, &a.
Newquay and N. CornwaA
Nottingham and District
Oilord
Paignton and S. Devon
Penmaenmawr, Llanlalrleehan, ft*.
Penzance and West Cornwall
Plymouth and S.W. Devon
Pwllheli and Cardigan Bay
Bamsgate, Sandwich, jko.
Rhyl and N. Wales
Bipon and District
St. Ives and W. Cornwall
Scarborough and District
Sealord, Newbaven, &o.
Seaton and District
Sheringham, Bunton, Ao.
Sherwood Forest
Sidmonth and S.E. Devoa
Sonthwold and District
Stratlord-upon-Avon
Swanage, Corte, &c.
Telgnmouth and S.E. Devoa
Tenby and South Wales
Thames, The
Torquay and District
Towyn, Aberdovey, &o.
Wales, North (Northern Section)
Wales, North (Southern Section)
Wales, South
Warwick, Kenllworth, &a.
Weston-super-Mare
Weymouth and Distrlol
Whitby and District
Worcester and District
Worthing and S.W. Snssai
Wye Valley
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R. DYMoriD s son,
The Bank Chambers. BIDEFORD.
'Phone 25. [See back cover Bidclord Guide.
Bideford — Budleigh Salterton
BIDEFORD, N. DEVON.
%TJr TANTON'S HOTEL ^f^C
BEAUTIFULLY Situated on the River Torridge. Central for all the most Interesting Places in North Devon. Boots and 'Bus meet all down trains. R.A.C., A.A. and M.U. Moderate Tariff. Garage Near. 'Phone 94. H. O'D VOSPER, Resident Proprietor.
BUDLEIGH SALTERTON.
ROSEMULLION HOTEL.
OVERLOOKING Sea. Near East Devon l.- ' i ,;iks, Tennis and Croquet Club. Good Cuisine. New Dining Room and Lounge. Central Heating, Electric Light. MANAGERESS fRosEMULLioN Hotel. Ltd.).
For the Sportsman on Holiday.
HOW TO PLAY LAWN TENNIS
A Simple •InstructivB Treatise by CHARLES HIEHONS,
Head Professional and Coach at gueen's Club, West Kensington, for 22 ye:irs.
Also Contributions by Mile. SUZANNE LENGLEN and other famous players.
Illustrated with 31 -Pull-page Plates. Revised and Enlarged Edition. At all Booksellers. 2/6 net.
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Ilfracombe
ILFRACOMBE.
THE BERKELEY PRIVATE HOTEL.
THIS First-class lint.l . > upi. s mi,, with. \.
minute from bca, li.ithm^, Ui .h^Iils, liaiul Tica'^i It enjoys a high Reputation for Comfort and Cuisme. ment. Terms Strictly Moderate. Illustrated Tariff c
'Phone 103,
Under Entirely New Manage n Application. A. JOSLIN, Proprietor.
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To all Places of Interest by Up-to-date Motor Char-a-banc.
ASK FOB ODBB'S LUCET VIOLET CABS.
TOURING CARS AND TAXIS FOR HIRE.
Particulars of Tours, apply HEAD OFFICE:
The Lucky Horse Shoe. 133, High Street, ILFRACOMBE. Telephone 38.
Branch Offices : 17, Church Street, and at the end of Greenclose Road,
Wilder Road.
Ilfracombe
ILFRACOMBE.
Successor to J. BUTLER.
Wholesale, Retail, and Family Wine and Spirit Merchant.
'Phone No. 3. Established over Half-a-Century.
Agent for "Vibrona," Hall'i "Coca Wine," and "Wincarnis." AU leading Proprietary Goods kept in Stock.
Bonded Stores
at
Barnstaple.
(3 doors from the Arcade), and 23, PORTLAND STREET.
STREET
ILFRACOMBE.
A. G. CAMP
(NEXT DOOR G.P.O.),
RETAIL AND FAMILY
Wine & Spirit Merchant
Also Bottler of ALES, STOUTS, AND CIDER.
36, HIGH STREET.
Wines and Spirits, &c., can be obtained In Small Quantities.
Established 1830.
Telephone 61.
Ilfracombe
ILFRACOMBE.
"Grosvenor" Private Hotel.
First=class En Pension.
LISTED HOTEL, R.A.C. & M.U.
Tel. 63.
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Lvnmouth
LYNMOUTH, NORTH DEVON.
LYNDALE HOTEL
The Oldest Established First-class Family Hotel. Best Position in Lynmouth.
Two minutes from and Overlooking 5ea.
Nearest Hotel to Watersmeet, Doone Valley, and Most Central for Devon & Somerset Staerhounds.
CHARGES SiRlCTLV MODER,\TE.
Officially Appointed to R.A.C. and A.A.
Extensive Garage with all facilities adjoining Hotel.
Private Lock-ups. Petrol.
EXCELLENT SALMON, TROUT, anti DEEP SEA FISHING (All Advice Given).
Bracy and Sunny, Ideal for Recuperation and Rest. GOLF. BATHING. TENNIS.
Tel. 45 Telegrams— "LYNDALE, LYNMOUTH."
Lynton Exchange. A. W. GAYIDON, Proprietress.
Minehead
MINEHEAD.
CULVERWELL, HAWKINS & WHITHAM,
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C. F. J. RICHARDSON,
House, Land & Estate Agent, Auctioneer & Valuer.
REGISTER OF FURNISHED& UNFURNISHED HOUSES.
17, THE AVENUE.
(Close to Minehead Station.)
Telephone 63. Telegrams, "Richardson, Auctioneer, Minehead.'
REGISTER FREE.
Mortehoe — Torquay
MORTEHOE, N. DEVON.
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WATERSMEET" ;'.
RST-CLASS - - PRIVATE HOTEL.
SOUTH Aspect. Cluirminglv hitiuLlcJ lu Own Grounds, which join Sea and the famous Woolacombe Sands, with private path thereto. Sunny, Bracing. Good Bathing. Electric Light. Central Heating. Golf, i8 holes. Own Tennis. Cuisine and Service Excel. Own Car. Garage.
Telephone: Woolacombe 3. Telegrams: " Watersmeet, Mortehoe."
For Illustrated Tariff apply A. E. CHUGG, Proprietor.
TORQUAY.
ALVANLEY
PRIVATE HOTEL.
Beautilully Situated. Stani- ing in its Own Grounds. South Aspect. Overlooking Torbav 3 rails, through Pie. Path to Sea Front. Electric Ligiu Throughout. Gas Fires m
Bedrooms. Garage. Car for Hire. Sanitary Certificate.
Phone 766. Illustrated Tariff on application. Mr. & Mrs. W. I, .AUSTIN NEEDS.
POULTRY KEEPERST
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POULTRY BOOK
By HARRY ROBERTS,
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2/6 IW e -t>. WARD. LOCK & CO.. Ltd.. Salisbury Sq.. London. E.C 4.
Devon Oiiutcs. 1921-25]
Torquay
TORQUAY.
LINCOMBE HALL,
The Most BeautituI Residential Hotel in Sunny South Devon.
CHARMING Situation. Four acres Lovely Grounds. Luxuriously Furnished — the Acme of Comfort and Refinement. Hot and Cold Water with Gas or Electric Fire in every Bedroom. Central Heating. Billiards. Tennis. Golf. Own Garage. Expert Chef. Inclusive Tariff.
Interesting Illustrated Brochure Free on Application.
KINGSKERSWELL.
YE OLDE WHITPOT MILL TEA GARDENS
lUmier New Management.'
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arc iUcally situaUil Im (^i ,> U i^ mj KtfrcshmLiits llOMli-MAUE CAKES A SPIiCIALITY. Close to the BL^utiful Downs, givun; lo\riy views of Dartmoor and within five minutes' «alk from Station and Churcfi FNcelUnt Train and Motor Bus Serviircs between Torquaj, I'lienton Newton Aljhot and Kmgskerswell. Indoor and OuldocracconmoditiLn Mr & Mrs A BIRLEY, PROPRIETORS
Woolacombe Bay
WOOLACOMBE BAY, Nr. Ilfracombe.
Visitors to - Woolacombe Sanc/s.
BUNGALOW CAFE
Cold Luncheons. Afternoon Teas.
Large and Small Parties Catered for. High^class Confectionery.
R. B. PILE, Proprietor.
'Phone 10 Woolacombe.
An Alphabetically arranged List of
Hotels, Boarding
Establishments,
Schools, House ^
Estate Agents,
At the Principal Holiday and Health Resorts, will be found at the end of this Guide.
INTRODUCTION.
Scope of Book — Chief Holiday Centres — " The Combes of the West " — Rail, Steamer and Motor Routes — Climate — Sport— Golf— Motoring— A Literary Note — Hotels.
THIS book deals with North-West Devon, one of the most beautiful portions of a beautiful shire. Well served by rail, steamer and motor routes, the district is easily reached from all parts, though there are still large tracts untouched by the railway.
The extension of motor travel in particular has brought this attractive region within reach of a great body of tourists to whom it was formerly but little known. In the past few years Ilfracombe, Barnstaple, Bideford and Westward Ho ! have been included in the popular tour programmes of the motor coach services from London, Birmingham, Bristol and other great centres, and the glimpses of Devonshire scenery obtained in this way have^ determined many to revisit the shire on a longer holiday,' and to enjoy at greater leisure the delights of " The Land of Junket and Cream."
Comparatively few towns are included in the area described. West of Lynton on the coast, Ilfracombe is the only place of any size ; Combe Martin, Lee, Woola- combe, Mortehoe, Appledore, Westward Ho !, Clovelly, and Hartland Quay are the chief places of interest where hotels will be found. Inland there are numerous villages, but only three towns of importance — Barnstaple, Bide- ford and Great Torrington.
Ilfracombe may well congratulate itself on its con- venient position in a district so attractive to visitors. The " deeps and hollows," from which the county de- rives its name, are on all sides of the town, as well as high cliffs and hills. The Tors to the west, and Hills-
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X THE COMBES OF THE WEST
borough, nearly 500 ft. high, to the east, connected by a lofty ridge of downs on the south, form an imposing screen to the town that rival holiday haunts may pardonably envy. The number of hotels and boarding- houses testifies to the appreciation of Ilfracombe by health-seekers and holiday-makers, and every year the popularity of the town seems to grow.
The town most visited by Americans is undoubtedly Bideford. Beyond the sentimental interest experi- enced when walking the old streets, conjuring up visions of Salvation Yeo, Amyas Leigh, Sir Richard Grenville, and courtier Raleigh — and perhaps endeavouring to trace a resemblance between the modern pretty maids of Bideford and the Rose of Torridge — the charms of Bideford are of the passive order, but the surroundings are beautiful to a degree.
Barnstaple, the chief business centre of North Devon, presents a pleasant combination of ancient interests and modern industry. Many visitors at Ilfracombe go to Barnstaple for no other reason than the pleasure of the drive, but the town is well worth a short stay, being indeed an excellent centre from which to explore the whole of North-West Devon.
"The Combes of the West."
No one can read the chapter in Westward Ho ! en- titled " The Combes of the Far West " without experi- encing an ardent longing to see for himself the natural wonders Kingsley so graphically describes. These combes intersect the long line of North Devon cliffs, and are characteristic also of North Cornwall. There may be similarity among them, but the effect is certainly not monotonous, and a tour along the coast (a walk held in great esteem by pedestrians sufficiently hardy to undertake it) only makes one long for more of these delightful combes so typical of the county.
Nature has also endowed North Devon, here and there, with stretches of sand such as are seldom equalled and never surpassed by other English seaside resorts.
RAILWAY ROUTES xi
The superb Woolacombe sands, nearly three miles long and of great breadth, are a favourite playground for children ; yet what a contrast do the extremities of those sands present ! Morte Point, the maleficent, and Baggy Point — equally dreaded — are bold rocky head- lands ; grand in fine weather, terrible in storm. No wonder their names are " writ large " on Bristol Channel charts. Well have they earned this deadly distinction by a deplorable notoriety in the matter of wrecks and casualties.
The more easterly part of the North Devon coast is described in the Guide to Lynton and Lynmouth, which also contains a section on Minehead.
For South Devon the reader is referred to the volumes on Dartynoor, Plymouth, Torquay, and Exeter and South' East Devon, the last-named including Seaton, Sidmouth, Budleigh Salterton, Exmouth, Dawlish and Teignmouth. Visitors to Bideford and Clovelly who extend their journey over the Cornish border should consult the Guide to Bude and North Cornwall. {See map, pp. xvi-xvii.)
How to Reach North-West Devon.
1. By Southern Railway (South-Western Section).^ Direct through service from Waterloo to Ilfracombe (220 miles) in about 5-6 hours. The train divides at Barnstaple, the front portion going to Bideford (for Westward Ho !, Clovelly and Hartland) and Torrington, the rear portion proceeding to Ilfracombe.
2. By Great Western Railway. Through carriages are run from Paddington to Ilfracombe. Passengers for Bideford, Torrington and Clovelly change to the Southern Railway at Barnstaple Junction.
Ordinary Return Fares from London, by either route : Ilfracombe : 845. 'zd. first ; 50s. 6i. third. Tourist
Tickets, available two months, 77s. ^d. first ; 46s. bd. third.
Period Excursion Tickets are also issued during the season. Barnstaple : 785. ^d. first ; 475. third. Tourist Tickets,
1 Current time-tables and announcements should be consulted for details as to times, fares, etc.
xii RAILWAY AND STEAMER ROUTES
available two months, 725. first ; 435. 3^. third. Period Excursion Tickets during the season.
Bideford : 82s. 2d. first ; 49s. 4^. third. Tourist Tickets, available two months, 755. 6d. first ; 45s. 3^. third. Period Excursion Tickets during the season.
Circular Tour Tickets (first and third) are also issued by the Southern Railway allowing the tourist to travel by train to Bideford, then to Clovelly by motor, and back to Ilfracombe, returning thence direct to London.
3. By Railway and Steamer. Rail to Bristol ; then by direct steamer, during the summer, to Ilfracombe. There is also a constant service in summer between CardiflE and other South Wales ports and the North Devon resorts.
The coast scenery between Clifton and Ilfracombe is remarkable for its grandeur. Passing through the beautiful gorge of the Avon, the steamers call at Portis- head, Clevedon, Weston-super-Mare or Cardiff and Minehead. After Minehead the coast is rugged as far as Lynmouth, and the view from the sea of the little fishing village is indescribably picturesque. Lynmouth passengers disembark by small boats, and the steamer continues its course by Duty Point, past snug little Combe Martin, to Ilfracombe.
4. By Railway and Motor. By Great Western Railway to Minehead ; thence by motor-coach to Lynton and in summer on to Ilfracombe. This is a pleasant and speedy mode of reaching Ilfracombe, the well-appointed motors following the old coach route {see the Guide to Lynton and Lynmouth).
The railway does not run to Clovelly, but through tickets are issued, passengers leaving the train at Bide- ford and proceeding by motor (12 miles). Passengers for Westward Ho ! and Appledore leave the train at Bideford and complete the journey by motor-' bus.
Climate,
The mild and salubrious climate is undoubtedly one of the most valuable assets of Devonshire, and has
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induced many chance visitors to make a permanent home within its borders. The hohday-seeker who is unable to do this will still be interested in the statistics as to climate and sunshine, which we give by permission, on the authority of The Book of the South-West, a valu- able work of reference published on the occasion of a meeting of the British Medical Association at Exeter, and prepared expressly for the medical profession. Ilfracombe shows an average yearly rainfall of 32'5 inches ; average summer temperature 57° ; average winter temperature 44-9° ; whilst the mean daily range during ten years has been remarkably small, only 8-4°. Cool summers and mild winters make the climate most equable. Old age is of remarkable frequency. In 1923, for instance, over 50 per cent, of the deaths at Ilfracombe were of persons over 70 years of age, a large proportion of these being over 80. The Exmoor portion of Devon generally is warm and very equable wherever shelter can be obtained — and there is abun- dance of it in the rather narrow valleys under its steep hills — with a heavy rainfall but a quickly-drying soil, a great deal of sunlight, bracing air, bare heights, but beautifully-wooded hollows in shelter.
Sport.
Devon has always had the reputation of being a sporting shire, and there is no more sporting part than that dealt with in this handbook. Exmoor was a royal forest, although there appear no actual records of a monarch's hunting visit, but from time to time court officials were sent down to take stags, and warrants were occasionally granted to others. Licences to hunt the fox and hare were frequently granted and occasionally there was trouble because a stag was also hunted. Thus in 1366 Robert Coran was haled before the Forest Court for killing a stag when hunting foxes. In 1508 Henry VII leased his forest rights on Exmoor to Sir Edmund
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Carew, who has sometimes been called the first master of the Devon and Somerset Staghounds, and in the time of Elizabeth the ranger of Exmoor kept a pack of hounds, but nothing can be said of the hunting with any certainty until the i8th century. Then, and up to 1825, the deer were hunted with the old-fashioned staghound, which was a hound more after the style of the blood- hound. That breed has practically been lost through the pack being purchased and removed to Germany in the year stated. The hounds now used are more of the build of foxhounds, and quite different from the old staghound. A census made in 1780 of the stags on Exmoor — or rather a calculation made as carefully as possible — stated that there were then 300 head. In a single season in recent years nearly 400 deer have been killed by the different packs hunting Exmoor, so that the wild red deer are increasing rather than diminishing. For the meets of the Devon and Somerset Staghounds, the principal pack hunting Exmoor, Lynton and Lyn- mouth will be found more convenient than Ilfracombe. Those visiting the district purely for the hunting, how- ever, will select a place farther on the moor. Good sport will also be found with the Stevenstone Foxhounds, which hunt the Bideford and Torrington country, and the Exmoor Foxhounds, which show some very good runs near Lynton, while most of the meets of the Cheriton Otter Hounds can be reached from Barnstaple or Bideford.
Golf.
Golf is perhaps the sport most favoured by visitors, and there are excellent links within easy reach of every town in North Devon. The Royal North Devon Golf Club have their headquarters at Westward Ho !, the excellent links on the Northam Burrows being known to golfers the country over and included in the championship rota. Next in importance is the eighteen-hole course at Saun- ton, within easy reach of Barnstaple, and connected by a] regular motor-'bus service. The i8-hole course at Ilfracombe was extended in 1924 ; particulars of this
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and other links in the district covered by this Guide will be readily found by reference to the Index.
Motoring. The motorist regards North Devon roads as hilly, narrow and winding. The importance of motor traf&c is fully realized by the authorities, who are spending considerable sums on road-widening and in improving dangerous corners. A new road affords an alternative route to Lynmouth from the Somerset side, avoid- ing the precipitous Countisbury Hill. Another new road at Braunton allows the narrow main street of the town to be avoided. Up-to-date and fully-equipped garages and repair shops are to be found in all the North Devon towns, the garages at Barnstaple, Bideford and Ilfracombe being particularly extensive. Barnstaple makes an excellent centre for motorists. Those who patronize the motor coach will be satisfied to know that Ilfracombe is one of the greatest motor coach centres in Devon. All the well-known places of North Devon are within comparatively easy reach, while those who count the enjoyment of the day by the length of the trip need have no fear of going un- satisfied.
Walking.
Cyclists will probably find the long, steep hills of North Devon rather tr^dng and the secondary roads are not of the best, either as to surface or gradient, but the walker has every reason to rejoice, whether he walks merely to enjoy the exhilaration of exercise in the bracing air of this breezy district, to admire ever-changing views, or merely to loiter the hours away, watching the play of light and shade and the varying atmospheric effects, or studying the wild life and flowers. The pedestrian with a cool head may follow the cliff paths, which should be avoided by those likely to turn giddy, for whom are many pleasant paths and roads overlooking the sea, but care should be exercised, as the cliffs are crumbling in many places and the incautious may encounter a nasty
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fall or find themselves involved in a small landslide. The motor-'bus services help those whose desire to ramble is greater than their capacity, while these will also find the cheap tickets issued by the railway companies of much advantage.
A Literary Note.
When in North Devon one cannot but be conscious of the romance pertaining to its every nook and corner, and the wanderer instinctively recalls the vivid por- traiture of Kingsley and Blackmore, the charm of Bar- ing-Gould, and the master hand of Whyte-Melville. Though the venue of Tennyson's Revenge was far from Devonshire, it was the heroism of " Men of Bideford in Devon " that gave inspiration to the poet. A concise account of the battle is given in Watkins' Essay towards a History of the Town of Bideford — a most interesting book, dated 1792, copies of which may be seen in the libraries at Barnstaple and Bideford.
Gosse in his Devonshire Coast pays eloquent tribute to the loveliness of North Devon, and Charles Kingsley's eulogies are quoted on every hand. His description of Clovelly, though hackneyed by repetition, invests the place, apart from its own fascination, with irresistible charm.
Stag-hunting has been the sport of Exmoor for cen- turies, and is still very popular. Whyte-Melville' s Katerfelto as a romance of Exmoor of course includes a breezy description of " a morning with the chase." No one visits this neighbourhood without an intimate acquaintance with Lorna Doone. Enthusiasts are occa- sionally disappointed that there is so little to distinguish the famous Doone Valley. Visitors who penetrate so far as the Doone Glen will, however, have their reward in other ways, for, of its kind, the scenery is unsurpassed.
To many visitors not the least attractive feature of Bideford is the richly-decorated apartment at the Royal Hotel known as " Kingsley's Room." This hotel boasted intimate acquaintance with another distinguished man
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of letters, J. A. Froude, who, like Kingsley, made con- siderable use of the collection of rare works possessed by the proprietor.
James Hervey, curate of St. Mary's Church, in 1789 wrote his Meditations among the Tombs and Contempla- tions at Bideford. Edward Capern, the " Postman Poet," lived in Mill Street, Bideford, and in an upper room of the same house Charles Kingsley opened a night school for the benefit of the young men of the town. Capern was buried at Heanton Punchardon, and the bell he used on his rounds may be seen on the grave.
Another Devonian who has achieved no small measure of fame as a \vTiter is Charles Kingsley' s talented daugh- ter, Mrs. Harrison, whose husband was rector of Clo- velly. The Wages of Sin, Colonel Enderby's Wife, The Carissima, The Gafeless Barrier, Sir Richard Calmady, Deadham Hard, and other novels published under the name of Lucas Malet, have attained great popularity. Many of her admirers declare that she surpasses her father in the realism of her scenic descriptions.
Books to Read. Among other novels dealing with North Devon are Lovers of Silver and Uncle Lionel, both by S. P. B. Mais (Ilfracombe) ; Mortehoe appears in Ivor by G. H. Russell, which is otherwise an exciting tale of Lundy Island ; Woolacombe in Ropes of Sand by R. E. Fran- cillon and Alice for Short by W. de Morgan ; Braunton in Blackmore's Maid of Sker ; while Combe Martin is the locality of Marie Corelli's The Mighty Atom ; and Heddon's Mouth will be found in Blackmore's Clara Vaughan and Maid of Sker. A Pier and a Band, by Mary MacCarthy, is located on a sea-board which is obviously that of North Devon. Two other stories of this coast are Love on the Happy Hill by Violet Pearn, and Collins &■ Co. by Captain Jack Elliott. J. Mills Whitham's Silas Braunton includes Ilfracombe (" Wid- mouth "), and Combe Martin (" Torberry ").
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Barnstaple in 1664 appears in His Grace 0' the Gunne by J. Hooper, and in 17 14 in The Gipsy King by May Wynne ; in The Maid of Sker and Ivor, both already referred to ; as " Bidecombe " in Dorin Craig's The Mist in the Valley, and as " Bamley " in Wolfgang and The Human Circus by J. Mills Whitham. Barnstaple is further seen in Devonshire Idylls by H. C. O'Neill, in Discovery by Harold Williams ; and in a clever detective story The Peer and His Plunder by Headon Hill.
Bideford and Northam are, of course, the principal scenes in Kingsley's Westward Ho I Bideford in 1675 is seen in The Island Providence, by F. Niven ; with Appledore in the modern story of A Man of Genius by M. P. Willcocks ; and with Westward Ho ! in The Happy Elopement by E. H. Lacon Watson. Three smuggling and adventure novels by I. Weare Gifiard, based upon Bideford and Appledore, are Lure of Contra- hand (with Braunton Burrows), The Riddle of the River (with Wear Gifford), and The Golden Bay. Northam will be found in Shifting Sands by Alice Birkhead ; Instow, Appledore and Lundy in The Last of the Gren- villes, by Benet Copplestone ; Lundy being also seen in J. Huntly McCarthy's Henry Elizabeth; in The Edge of Circumstances, by E. Noble; in The Man at Odds, by Ernest Rhys ; and in The Golden Bay.
Few readers of the Windsor Magazine are likely to forget that Stalky 6- Co. consists of stories of Mr. Rud- yard Kipling's owti school days at the former United Services College, Westward Ho !, and that " the egre- gious Beetle " flimsily disguises the author's own per- sonality.
Clovelly Court is the " Aberalva " of Charles Kings- ley's Two Years Ago, and probably also appears in Henry Kingsley's Ravenshoe. Lucas Malet utilized Clovelly scenery in The Wages of Sin. Clovelly, too, with an episode at Barnstaple, is the village of Charles Dickens's Christmas story, A Message from the Sea. Its vicinity is seen in John Oxenham's My Lady of Shadows, and it is visited by Americans in K. D. Wiggin's Penelope's
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Postscripts, and An English Honeymoon by A. H. Whar- ton. Hartland and Clovelly are seen in The Golden Bay, and Hartland occupies the major portion of The Drawn Line by E. Shaw Cowley. Hartland enters into three works already referred to, The Island Providence, Shifting Sands and A Man of Genius, and Tonacombe in the latter is the ancient manor-house at Morwenstow. The Vicar of Morwenstow, by S. Baring-Gould, will also interest visitors to this neighbourhood. Marsland Mouth appears in Westward Ho ! and is probably the locality of A Daughter of the Sea by A. Le Feuvre. It is also seen in The Gaverocks by S. Baring-Gould. Lastly, the whole of this seaboard is sketched in Set in Silver by C. N. and A. M. Williamson. Excellent holiday reading is J. Henry Harris's My Devonshire Book.
Highways and Byways in Devon and Cornwall by A. H. Norway, is a standard work of topography for the two counties, and other interesting books are S. Baring- Gould's Book of Devon, The North Devon Coast by C. G. Harper, North Devon by F. J. Snell, Lundy Island by J. R. Chanter, Wanderings in North Devon by J. M. Chanter, and The Coasts of Devon and Lundy Island by J. L. W. Page. Worth's History of Devon is well known. Geologically the county is dealt with in The History of Devonshire Scenery, by A. W. Clayden, and the district described in this Guide more particularly in The Coast Scenery of North Devon, a noteworthy book by E. Newell Arber.
Nature-lovers may care to be reminded that most of the nature papers in The Lone Swallows, by Henry Williamson, relate to the coast between Ilfracombe and Barnstaple.
Hotels and Tariffs.
The following list of the principal hotels and board- ing houses in the district covered by this Guide may be useful to the intending visitor. Where tariffs are appended they have been supplied by the proprietors themselves, but as changes of management are frequent
HOTELS AND TARIFFS
and. prices have fluctuated greatly since the War the terms are inserted only as an approximate indication of the grade of establishment and should be verified by previous inquiry. Nearly all the larger hotels have motor accommodation, and in the principal centres there are numerous other garages. Week-end terms include dinner or supper on Saturday and breakfast on Monday.
[Abbreviatio!J3 ; R., bedroom ; b., breakfast ; attendance ; /r., from ; temp., temperance.]
/., luncheon ; t., tea ; d., dinner ; a..
Ilfracombe.
Ilfracombe, Capstone Parade : R.. single, £r. 7/6 ; double, fr. 16/6 ; b., 3/6; /., 4/-; t; 1/6; d., 6/6. Boarding terms : fr. 21/- per day ; fr. 136/- per week. Royal Clarence, High Street. Queen's, High Street : B. and b., single, fr. 7/6 ; I., 3/6 ; t., It. 1/6 ; d; 4/-.
Boarding terms: fr. 13/6 per
day ; fr. 73/6 per week ; fr.
27/- per week-end.
CliSe Hydro: i?., single, 6/- ; double,
12/-; b., 3/6; t., 1/6; d., 6/-;
a., nil.
Boarding terms : :6/- per day ; 105/- per week ; 30/- per week-end. Great Western, High Street. Bunnacleave : R., single, fr. 5/- ; double, fr. 10/-; b., 3/6; I., 3/6 ; t, 1/6 ; d., 5/-.
Boarding terms : fr. 12/- per day ; fr. 84/- per week.
Private Hotels and Boarding Houses.
Arlington : R., single, 4/6 ; double, 7/6; b., 2/-; I., 2/-; t., 1/6; d., 2/6.
Boarding terms : 10/6 per day ; fr. 73/6 per week. Berkeley Blenheim House Cavendish Cecil.
Gilbert : B., 2/- ; /., 3/- ; /., i/- ; d., 3/6.
Boarding terms : 12/- per day ; fr. 84/- per week ; 25/- per week-end. Granville : Boarding terms : fr. 12/-
per day; fr. 73/6 per week. Grosvenor, Wilder Road : R., single, 5/- ; double, 9/- ; b., 2/6 ; I., 2/6 ; t., i/-; d., 3/6 ; a., nil.
Boarding terms: 15/- per day; 84/- per week ; 30/- per week- end.
Imperial, Capstone Parade : R., single,
fr. 4/6 ; double, fr. 8/- ; b., 3/- ;
l-i 3/- ; '•. i/- ; d., 4/6 ; a., nil.
Boarding terms : fr. 12/- per
day ; fr. 73/6 per week ; fr.
24/- per week-end.
Montebello, Fore Street : R., single,
fr. 4/- ; double, fr. 7/6 ; b., 3/- ;
L, 3/-; t., I/-; d.,4/-.
Boarding terms : fr. 12/6 per day ; fr. 84/- per week ; fr. 23/6 per week-end. Montpelier House.
Moonta, Capstone Crescent : R. and b., single, 6/6 ; double, 12/-. Boarding terms : 12/- per day ; 73/6 per week; 21/- per week- end. Seafleld, Larkstone Terrace : Boarding
terms : fr. 63/- per week. St. Petroe : R., single, 4/-; double, 7/6 ; b., 2/6 ; I., 2/6 ; t., 1/6 ; d., 3/6.
Boarding terms : 12/6 per day ; 84/- per week ; 37/6 per week- end.
House and Estate Agents.
VV. C. Hutchings, High Street. H. C. Cathcart.
Barnstaple.
Imperial : R., single, fr. 6/- ; double, fr. 13/-; 6., 3/-; l.,3/6; t., 1/6; d., 5/6.
Boarding terms : fr. 15/- per day ; fr. 105/- per week ; fr. 40/- per week-end. Richmond.
Victoria [temp.) : R., single, fr. 5/6 ; double, fr. 10/- ; b., 3/- ; /., 3/6 ;. t., fr. 1/3 ; d., V-.
Boarding terms : fr. i6/- per day ; fr. 94/6 per week ; fr. 30/6 per week-end.
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(Abbkkviatioss : if., bedroom ; »., breaklairt ; J., luncheon ; «.. tea ; d., dinner ; a., attendance ; /r., from ; temp., temperance.]
Bideford.
Royal : R., single, 8/6 ; double, i6/-; b., 3/6; '•. 3/6; t., i/6 ; d.. 5/6.
Boardtng Urms : 2i/- per day ; 126/- per week ; 42/- per week-end. Tanton's. New Inn.
House and Estate Agent R. D>TQond & Son, The Quay.
Appledore. RoyaL
Braunton.
New Inn, etc.
Clovelly.
Red Lion: i?.,single, fr. 4/6 ; double, £r. 7/-; b.. it. 2/6; J., 3/-; t., 1/6 ; d., 4/6.
Boarding terms : fr. 15/- per day ; fr. 84/- per week ; fr. 25/- per week-end. New Inn.
Combe Martin.
King's Arms : R., single, 5/- ; double, 7/-; 6., 2/6; I., 3/-; t.,
I/-; d.,3/6.
Boarding terms : 12/6 per day ; 84/- per week ; 18/6 per week- end. Marine.
Great Torrington.
Globe : R., single, 3/- ; double, 6/- ; b; 3/-; I; 3/-; t; 1/3; <i.,4/-; a., nil.
Boarding terms : 12/- per day ; 84/- per week; 25/- per week- end.
Hartland.
Hartland Quay : R., single, 6/- ; double, 7/-; b.,2/6; I; 3/-; t., 1/6; rf.,4/6.
Boarding terms : fr. 12/6 per day ; fr. 70/- per week ; fr. 21/- per week-end. King's Arms.
Heddon's Mouth.
Hunter's Inn, Parracombe : R.,
single, 5/-; double, 7/6; b., 3/-; /., 3/9 : '• . 2/- ; d., 5/-.
Boarding terms : fr. 12/- per day ; fr. 84/- per week.
Hele. Hele Bay.
Instow.
Marine: R., single, 5/-; double, 8/6; 6., 2/6; I., 3/-; '•. 1/6; d., 5/-.
Boarding terms : 105/- per week. New Inn.
Lee Bay.
Lee Bay.
Lundy.
Manor House (private) : R., single, 10/- ; double, 20/- ; /., 2/6 ; t.,
I/-; '^•■3/6.
Boarding terms : 105/- per week.
Lynton and Lynmouth.
Tors, Lynmouth : R., single, fr. 7/6; double, fr. 15/- ; 6., 3/6 ; I., 4/6 ; t., 1/6 ; d., 6/6.
Boarding terms: fr. 21/- per day ; fr. 105/- per week. Valley of Rocks, LjTiton : R., single, 8/-; double, 17/-; b., 3/6; I., 4/- ; t., 1/6 ; d., 6/-.
Boarding terms : 21/- per day ; 147/- per week. Royal Castle, L>Titon : R., single, 7/6 ; double, 15/- ; b., 3/6 ; I., 3/6; t., 1/6; d., 5/6.
Boarding terms : 20/- per day ; 126/- per week ; 37/6 per week-end. Lyndale.
Imperial, L>'nton : R., single, fr. 6/- ; double, fr. 12/-; b., 3/6; /., 3/6; «., 1/6; d.,5/6.
Boarding terms : fr. 15/- per day ; fr. 105/- per week ; fr. 30/— per week-end. Lyn Valley, Lynmouth : R., single, fr. 6/- ; double, fr. 10/6 ; b., table d'hote, 3/6; /., 4/-; /., fr. i/-. Boarding terms : fr. 13/6 per day ; fr. 84/- per week. Bath, Lynmouth : R., single, 6/- ; double, 12/-; 6., 3/6; I., 3/6; t., 1/6 ; d., 5/6.
Boarding terms : fr. 12/6 per
day ; fr. 73/6 per week ; fr.
25/- per week-end.
Private Hotels and Boarding Houses.
Fairholm.
North Cliff, Lynton : Boarding terms :
15/- per day ; 84/- per week. Granville House. Green House Tea Rooms.
Mortehoe.
Watersraeet (private). Glen Haven (private). Fortescue.
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[Abbeeviations : R., bedroom ; 6., breakfast ; I., luncheon ; I., tea ; d., dinner ; a. attendance ; fr., from ; temp., temperance.]
Saunton.
rSaunton Sands.
Woolacombe.
Westward Ho ! Woolacombe Bay : R single, fr. 8/6 ;
double, fr. 12/6 ; b., 3/6 ; {., 3/6 ; "Golden Bay. /., 1/6; d., 6/-.
Pebble Ridge. Rathleigh {private) : R., single, 7/6 ;
Woody Bay.
double, 10/- ; b., 3/- ; I., 3/-
t., 1/6; d.,5/-
\Woody Bay : R., single, 5/- ; double. Boarding terms : 17/6 per day ;
9/- ; b., 2/5 ; I., 3/- ; /., 1/6 ; 105/- per week ; 35/- per
d., 4/-. week-end.
Boarding terms : fr. 73/6 per Melrose (private).
week. Bungalow Caf6 (r^taurant).
The Little Maids of Devon.
Oh ! the Uttle maids of Devon,
They've a rose in either cheelv, And their eyes hke bits of heaven
Meet your own with glances meek, But within them there are tiny imps
That play at hide-and-seek !
Oh ! the little maids of Devon,
They have sldns of milk and cream,
Just as pure and clean and even As a pool in Dartmoor stream,
But who looks at them is holden With the magic of a dream.
■Oh ! the little maids of Devon,
They have honey-coloured hair Where the sun has worked like leaven,
Turning russet tones to fair. And they hold you by the strands of it.
And drive you to despair.
'Oh ! the little maids of Devon,
They have voices like a dove, And Jacob's years of seven
One would serve to have their love, .But their hearts are things of mystery
A man may never prove !
Dorothy Frances Gurney.
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BIDEFORD.
Banks. — Lloyds, Midland, National Provincial, all in High Street.
Bathing from the pontoon moored in the river oS the Park.
Boating is very popular. Both rowing and saihng boats can be hired. The pull up river to Wear GifEord when the tide favours can be strongly recom- mended. The river is wide enough to sail with ease, and the views along the wooded banks are charming. A Regatta is held annually in August or September.
Bowls. -The Bowling and Lawn Tennis Club have an excellent green, where the game is enthusiastically played. Visitors are always welcomed.
Early Closing Day.^Wednesday.
Fishing. — ^Trout fishing in the Council's Reservoirs. Tickets can be obtained at the Town Clerk's Otfice. Season (March i to October 15) tickets, £1 is. (a limited number are issued) ; month, 10s. 6d. ; day 2S. 6d. For fishing in waters controlled by the Taw and Torridge Conservators see Barnstaple Section, p. i.
Golf. — .■^t Westward Ho ! See pp. 17 and ig. There is also a putting green at Bideford.
Hotels and Tariffs. — See Introduction, p. xxiii.
Lawn Tennis is played at the courts on the Northam Road, where extensive grounds have been laid out by the Torridge Vale Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club. Hard and grass courts at the enclosure of the Sports Ground Com- pany.
Market Days. — Tuesday and Saturday.
Motor-'buses. — ^To Barnstaple and Ilfracombe, Northam, Westward Ho ! Appledore, Clovelly, Hartland, Bude, Torrington, Hatherleigh, Hols- worthy, Exeter, etc. For particulars see bills. Most of these services start from the Quay, except that to Clovelly in connection with the Southern Railway {see p. 25).
Places of Worship.— S/. Mary's (Parish Church), St. Peter's (East-the-Water), Roman Catholic (North Road), Wesleyan (Bridge Street), United Methodist (High Street), Congregational (Bridgeland Street), Baptist (Lower Gunstone), Plymouth Brethren (North Road), Salvation .■irmy (Lower Meddon Street), Bethel (East-the-Water). Simday services at 11 and 6.30.
Post Office. — High Street, 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. ; Sunday, 9 to 10.30 a.m. Bank Hohdays, 9.30 to 11 a.m. Branch Ofifices, Lime Grove and East-the- Water.
Railway Station. (Southern Railway) on east side of river. The town is reached by crossing the Bridge.
BIDEFORD is charmingly situated on the Torridge, and apparently owes its name to the fact that it is " by-the-Ford " on what in Roman times was a very important highway along the coast from Cornwall tlxrough Devon into Somerset. During excavations on the eastern side of Bideford, a paved footway, 12 ft. in width, presumed to be part of the old Roman fosseway, was discovered. In later periods Bideford and Bide- ford men played a prominent part in the history of the Bideford (6) j
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country, and one instinctively feels, as the postman poet Capern wrote —
" Whene'er I tread old By-the-ford I conjure up the thought 'Twas here a Grenville trod, And here a Raleigh wrought."
The town obtained a charter of incorporation in 1574. To the lover of history the place has a special interest as the home of the Grenville family, two noble scions of which were Richard Grenville, who subdued Glamor- ganshire in the reign of Rufus, and Sir Bevill Grenville, described as " the handsomest and most gallant of his generation," who fought and won for Charles at Lans- down, and " bravely fighting fell." Then, again, there was Sir Richard Grenville of Elizabeth's time, whose exploit in the Revenge " off Flores in the Azores " won for him undying fame. For nearly 700 years the manor of Bideford was the possession of the Grenville family, and to them much of the maritime importance of the town was due.
Bideford is the nearest town of any size to Clovelly, and motor coaches and other conveyances run thither daily. It is also within easy distance of Westward Ho ! Instow, Appledore, and Wear Gifford, to all of which pleasant walks or drives may be taken.
The streets, especially in the older portion of the town, are narrow, tortuous and steep, but in the High Street, Grenville Street and Mill Street there are some good shops, and excellent hotel accommodation is at the visitor's disposal.
The Bridge.
Bideford's proudest possession is the Bridge, a noble and picturesque structure of twenty-four arches, of a total length of 677 ft. The bridge spans the Torridge and connects East-the-Water with Bideford proper. By the townspeople it is used in the evenings as a pro- menade, and there is no finer sight than the view from the Bridge towards Instow at high tide on a summer
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day, especially when some shipping can be seen in the fairway. The bridge was built about the middle of the fourteenth century, and according to Westcote " the foundation of the structure is very firm and strong, yet it shakes or seems to do with the slightest step a horse makes in his passage over it." Readers need not fear, however ; the bridge is quite safe, and the shaking may be put down to Westcote' s imagination. Concerning the building of the bridge there is a legend that Sir Richard Gourney, a priest of the place, was admonished by a vision to begin the work, and he was to lay the foundations where he should find a stone fixed in the ground. Upon walking by the river he espied such a stone or rock there rolled and fixed firmly, which he never remembered to have seen before, and, regarding his dream as a heavenly inspiration, he disclosed it to the Lord Bishop of the diocese, who granted indulgences for so pious a work, and with the assistance of Sir Theobald Grenville the bridge was finished. Another legend, which we repeat for what it is worth, is that no solid bottom could be found for the bridge until the inhabitants threw in bales of wool — there was formerly a big woollen industry in the town — and upon these wool bags the bridge was built. Mr. R. Pearse Chope tells us the present stone bridge dates from the sixteenth century, and quotes from the " Calendar of Papal Letters" to prove that in 1459 it was of wood and with the two chapels that stood upon it in a bad state of repair.
Generous persons in the past left lands and property to the bridge " in trust " for its maintenance. In course of time the Bridge Trust became an opulent corporation, and a " Bridge Dinner " was a great event in the mental calendar of the invited. Charles Kingsley's summary of the virtues of the Bridge is comprehensive :
" Every one who knows Bideford cannot but know Bide- ford Bridge, for it is the very omphalos, cynosure and soul around which the town, as a body, has organized itself ; and as Edinburgh is Edinburgh by virtue of its Castle ; Rome, Rome by virtue of its Capitol ; and Egypt, Egypt by
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virtue of its Pjrramids, so is Bidef ord Bideford by virtue of its Bridge. But all do not know the occult powers which have advanced and animated this said wondrous bridge for now five hundred years, and made it the chief wonder, according to Prince and Fuller, of this fair land of Devon ; being first an inspired bridge ; a soul-saving bridge ; an alms-giving bridge ; an educational bridge ; a sentient bridge ; and last, but not least, a dinner-giving bridge. All do not know how, when it began to be built some half-mile higher up, hands invisible carried stones down stream each night to the present site ; until Sir Richard Gourney, parson of the parish, going to bed one night in sore perplexity and fear of the evil spirit who seemed so busy in his sheepfold, beheld a vision of an angel, who bade him build the bridge where he himself had so kindly transported the materials, for there alone was sure foundation amid the broad sheet of shifting sand. All do not know how Bishop Grandisson, of Exeter, proclaimed through his diocese indulgences, benedictions, and ' partici- pation in all spiritual blessing for ever,' to all who would promote the bridging of that dangerous ford, and so, con- sulting alike the interests of their souls and of their bodies, ' make the best of both worlds.' The bridge is a veritable esquire, bearing arms of its own (a ship and a bridge proper on a plain field) and owning lands and tenements in many parishes with which the said miraculous bridge has, from time to time, founded charities, built schools, waged suits at law and finally given yearly dinners, and kept for that pur- pose (luxurious and liquorish bridge that it is) the best- stocked cellar of wine in all Devon."
Finally we may quote from a recent article in the Daily Telegraph :
" For six hundred years successive generations have gone and come across this venerable bridge. It has heard the hoof of the pack-horse, the creak of the farm-wain, the rattle of the stage coach ; it has echoed to the tramp of soldiery as long ago as the Wars of Cavalier and Roundhead and as recently as the great conflict from which we have just emerged. Twice a day for six hundred years it has felt the swirl of the swift salt tides that bear the wrack and foam of the ocean far inland among the silent hills, where the trees come down to the water's edge and the kingfisher flits like a blue flame in the shadow of their overhanging branches. For six hun-
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dred mellowing years it has felt the caress of the soft sea- winds, and listened, in the stillness of the night, to the sound — faint and far off as the sighing of a shell — of the billows breaking on the long, dark pebble-ridge of Northam or raving over the treacherous bar. And now this bridge, the silent witness of so many vicissitudes ; this bridge which beheld the little contingent of swift-footed craft set sail to join Drake at Plymouth, and to meet in victorious combat the towering galleons of Spain ; this bridge has at last begun to yield to the unwonted strain that modern motor traffic has imposed upon it."
Within the last century the bridge has been consider- ably altered. It was formerly so narrow that in 1810, when vehicles generally superseded the old pack-horses, it was found necessary to add to its width by semicircular arches, at a cost of ;^3,200. After the opening of the railway the bridge was again widened at a cost of about ;^6,ooo, and the strengthening of the pillars has been going on for some years. In recent years the amount of traffic using the bridge has increased to such an extent that further widening became necessary and the work was begun in 1923, the cost being estimated at over
;^20,000.
The Municipal Buildings
face one on entering Bideford from the Bridge. On the right is the Bridge Hall, a modern building, and on the left the Library, a portion of the funds for which were given by the late Andrew Carnegie. Room is also found for a small Museum, which shelters the old parish stocks, an Armada chest, and many objects of geological and local interest. The Library adjoins the Town Hall, and both buildings are in the same style. At the end of the Quay is a fine Statue of Charles Kingsley, 18 ft. high. The memorial was erected by public subscription, and stands at the entrance to the Park {see p. 10).
The Parish Church
(St. Mary's) is almost hidden behind the Municipal Buildings. The sturdy square tower with clock face,
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however, can be seen peeping over the top of the Free Library. The said tower is the only remaining portion of the old church, the main portion having been rebuilt in 1865. Before that date the ruthless modernizer had laid sacrilegious hands on the venerable pile. This Dr. Oliver pithily described, writing of the Church as it stood in 1842 : "It was startling as we approached the church to behold a Doric portal knockt up to lead to a north gallery ; to view fluted granite columns tumbled out of the church, and broken up to serve for gate posts about the cemetery ; and such fantastic doors and windows, etc. We were prepared for a worse interior, and for patchwork, and detestable and outrageous attempts to convert the appearance of the House of Prayer into that of a Lecture Room or Theatre ; nor were we disap- pointed." Much of the old oak carving, which would be priceless now, was broken up and sold for firewood. Some that remains, by which the beauty of that which is gone may be judged, can be seen converted into a screen for the choir vestry in the tower. But there are several old monuments and inscriptions that will repay examination.
Like the present building, and like the Bridge, the old church was built of local stone. Under date May 31, 1504, the Church is styled in the archiepiscopal registers, " The Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary." Readers of Westward Ho ! will remember that Sir Richard Grenville in 1588 brought to Bideford the first convert of the North American Indians. That this is a fact beyond dispute is proved by two entries in the earlier registers belonging to the Church :
" 1587-8. Raleigh a Winganditoian (was baptized) March 26th. 1589. Rawley a Winganditoian (was buried) April."
Variations in the spelling of Raleigh occur in other places (the great Sir Walter uses the form Ralegh in his famous History). In the second instance it will be noticed that the word is spelt as it is pronounced in Devonshire.
It is commonly believed that the system of mortuaries
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came to be regulated by Act of Parliament in conse- quence of a scene in Bideford churchyard. In the reign of Henry VIII, so the story runs, Sir William Coffin, of Portledge, a Master of the Horse and " a great man about Court," was passing Bideford Church, and seeing a disturbance inquired the cause. He was told the rector refused to bury a corpse that had been brought to the cemetery until his mortuary dues had been paid, and this the bereaved relatives either could not or would not do. Enraged beyond measure, Sir William ordered his retainers to seize the stubborn cleric and bury him in the grave that had been dug for the other. And the Rector was, in truth, in sore peril of being buried alive when he relented and performed, albeit with a bad grace, the office demanded of him. Sir William had to answer for his conduct before Parliament, but the result of the exposure was the passing of an Act, 21 Henry VIII, c. 6, regulating the mortuaries.
The visitor should not fail to see the Norman font, with rude cable moulding, and the fine sixteenth-century monument to Sir Thomas Graynfyld (Grenville). In the south aisle, at its eastern end, is a brass erected by the Rev. Roger Grenville, one-time rector, in memory of the gallant Sir Richard Grenville, who commanded the little Revenge. On it is inscribed the great sailor's memorable farewell :
" Here die I, Richard Grenville, with a joyful and quiet mind, for that I have ended my life as a true soldier ought to do, that hath fought for his countrj', his Queen, religion, and honour ; my soul willingly departing from out of this body, leaving behind the everlasting fame of a valiant soldier, having behaved as any is in duty bound to do."
Also on the south side is a mural tablet to the memory of John Strange, a merchant, in more humble life than Grenville, but none the less a hero. Strange died in 1646, and the monument is said to have been erected by a mariner who had received generous treatment at his hands after being shipwrecked on the North Devon coast. The quaintly-worded inscription runs :
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" Sacred to the Memory of Mr. John Strange, sometime Merchant of this Towne, who for sweetness of disposition, affabiUty in dis- course, courteousness in carriage, uprightness in commerce, fidelitie in magistracy, largeness of heart, and liberality of hand to the needy, bountifulness in hospitality, humility in the flow, equability in the ebb of outward things, and sincere love to God, His gospel and saints, having lived beloved and deservedly honour'd, after the pilgrimage of fiftie-six years ended, dyed, desir'd and not without cause, much lamented, Aug. ist. Anno Dom. 1646, in his fourth and fatal Maioraltie, whose better part returning whence it came, he left unto the world the pretious odour of a good name, and the choyce example of a sweet conversation, together with his earthly tabernacle put off and heerby interred, till being refined and raised a glorious body, the more glorious soul return to take possession of it, and both be rapt up to enjoy that bliss that knows neither tearm nor tedium."
Strange deserved this eulogy. He was a level-headed man, and when the panic-stricken Mayor of the borough had fled the town, then smitten with plague brought over from Spain, he took the reins of command and did all that was then humanly possible to keep the plague within bounds. For full six months terrible havoc was wrought, as many as eighty-three being carried to their graves in a month. Strange at last took the infection and died, richly beloved.
In the churchyard are many curious epitaphs. One, upon which a novel with a moral might be written, records the death of a Captain Henry Clark, whose sad life's story is inscribed in verse on his tombstone.
Bideford was the birthplace of John Shebbeare, M.D., who achieved fame by his political writings. He ad- dressed A Series of Letters to the English People, support- ing the Stuarts and strongly opposing the House of Brunswick. For his animadversions on the Government of George I he was sentenced to stand in the pillory and to suffer imprisonment for two years. On the accession of George IH, however, he obtained a pension of ;^2oo per annum, and, like the Vicar of Bray, from that period employed his abilities in defence of the Government.
Mention must also be made of Thomas Stucley, born in 1 68 1, son of the chaplain to Oliver Cromwell. Deep study turned his brain, and he lived a strange life. Watkins adds, " When the Duke of Marlborough laid
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siege to any town in Flanders, IVIr. Stucley would draw a plan of the place upon his kitchen floor, which, according to the Devonshire custom, was made of lime and ashes ; and by the intelligence of the newspapers he would work at the plan with a pick-axe, so that every conquest cost him a new floor." An old house in Bridgeland Street, Bideford, is pointed out as the place where this singular man died, in 1730, surrounded by dirt and money.
Other Public Buildings. There is a busy Pannier Market at the top of Bridge Street (principal markets, Tuesdays) and a Cattle Mar- ket above. In Meddon Street is the Infirmary, opened in the Jubilee year. For the size of the town the political clubs are well equipped. The Conservative Club is in Bridgeland Street, where there is now also a Women's Unionist Club, and the Liberal Club is at the top of High Street. There is a Music Hall (The Palace), at which entertainments are given, in Bridgeland Street, and close to it is the Masonic Hall. In Mill Street is the Palladium Cinema. Near the river bank and park are the Science, Art and Technical Schools. There is a Grammar School for boys, which is recognized as a secondary school, and the Edgehill United Methodist College provides secondary education for girls. The latter building was destroyed by fire in 1920, but the task of reconstruction was put in hand almost immediately, the school being meanwhile carried on in temporary quarters.
The Quay.
The Broad Quay, which belongs to the town, having been purchased by the Corporation in 1881, has been several times widened, and presents a very different appearance from that it bore when Amyas Leigh trod its cobble paving. At that time, with the exception of the Ship Inn, barely a house stood on it, and it was but a fourth of the present width. Now it is a broad promenade, tree-sheltered on one side, and fronting the other are shops and private residences, to say nothing of the Ship, which is supposed to stand on the site of
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the original inn of that name. From the inscription on the wall we read that here the Brotherhood of the Rose was founded, and surely, painted high upon the front, is the portrait of Rose Salterne herself ! This, however, is not claimed to be an old masterpiece. As a matter of fact, the enterprising innkeeper, with an eye to the advertisement it would bring him, had it painted in 1905. At different times this Inn has been variously named The Blue Anchor and Newfoundland Inn, but it now goes under the original name.
The Bideford, Westward Ho I and Appledore Railway, opened in
1901, was closed early in 1917, owing to the exigencies of the War, and communication between the places named is now maintained by means of motors and other conveyances. The track formerly laid on the Quay was taken up in 1920. The line taken by the railway can be traced through much of its length, and its use as a new road is advocated.
Victoria Park.
Like its neighbour Barnstaple, Bideford possesses a pretty riverside park. At the entrance is the Statue ol Charles Kingsley, already referred to. Many acres of marshland have been purchased by the town and gradu- ally laid out, with the result that there is a large open space for sports, encircled by a good cycle track, the whole being bounded by a pleasant riverside walk, pro- vided with seats, along a beautiful avenue. The view from this walk is magnificent, embracing the river and the hills as far down as Instow, whilst on the other hand is the ancient Bridge. Altogether the Park would do credit to larger towns.
The Armada Guns. Until their historic interest was discovered these relics of the days when Bideford men and Bideford ships conquered the Spaniard were used as mooring posts on the Quay. Experts from the Royal Artillery and the British Museum have inspected these weapons, but no one can indicate their origin with absolute certainty. Some say they are Armada guns, others call them Span- ish guns of the sixteenth century, but not necessarily
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Armada guns. Without question, they are very old and
of foreign make. Captain Enthoven, R.H.A., who made
a careful examination at the request of the Royal
Artillery Institution, Woolwich, reported :
" It is only reasonable to suppose that a port of the distinction of Bideford would become possessed of some of the guns captured from the Armada. These guns are not English, are of the sixteenth century, and four out of five [the number then examined] correspond in a remarkable degree with the authen- ticated guns at Inveraray. It is therefore more than probable that in these guns Bideford possesses guns captured from the Spanish Armada."
At Westward Ho ! several guns were formerly seen at very low tides. One has been recovered and orna- ments the Golden Bay Hotel. At Instow two of these old cannon were for years to be seen on the Quay. A few years ago, however, Mr. A. L. Christie, who owns the foreshore and quay, had them removed to his house at Tapeley. At Portledge, beyond Westward Ho !, three similar guns were recovered about fifty years ago, and are at the rear of the mansion. Finally, at Clovelly can be seen three more guns of the same character. When the mystery surrounding these old guns is un- ravelled— if it ever is — we shall doubtless hear a most interesting story. There may be more guns about the coast, in not very deep water, waiting to be discovered. At present the collection comprises — At Bideford . . 8 guns. Cleaned and preserved.
At Portledge
At Westward Ho
At Clovelly
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On the river bank, just beyond the park, efforts have been made in recent years to revive the shipbuilding industry of Bideford.
Chudleigh Fort.
By climbing a short distance up the hill behind the red-brick church of St. Peter, East-the-Water, and then
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crossing a field, Chudleigh Fort is reached. When Barnstaple and Bideford declared for the Parliament against the King, two forts were built by Major-General Chudleigh, one on each side of the Torridge. That at East-the-Water remains, and is visited both on account of its historic memories and for the splendid views it affords of the town and up and down the river. In the summer of 191 9 it was purchased by public subscription in the town as a site for the War Memorial, and is laid out as public gardens. The site of the fort on the other side is conjectural. It has always been referred to as the Appledore Fort.
The River Torridge,
one of Bideford' s chief attractions, rises but a few miles from the sea, close to the source of the Tamar, near Bursdon Moor. In the form of a large loop it wanders inland for fifty-three miles, until it joins the Taw before Bideford Bar. Great Torrington is the town of next importance to Bideford on its banks. The great width of the Torridge, except at low water, renders sailing most enjoyable, and boating is highly popular. Rowing is a sport much indulged in, and the little town has in recent years sent out the champion oarsmen of the county. It is expedient to have a knowledge of the tides. Oarsmen well know the advantage and comfort of rowing with the stream. By carefully watching the tide and selecting the right time, excursions can be made with the current each way. The trip to Wear Gifford and back is about ten miles, with the perfection of river scenery. There is no great depth of water at Wear Gifford, but enough for ordinary requirements. Care should be taken to avoid shoals. Down stream, Appledore, Instow, or Braunton Burrows may be visited. For fishing in the Torridge see -p. i, Barnstaple section.
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EXCURSIONS FROM BIDEFORD.
FROM Bideford can be visited all the places of interest in the " West Countree," as the great railway-less tract of land extending to Hartland Quay is called.
Motor and other conveyances run to Clovelly daily in the summer and to other places as noted on p. i. For times and other particulars — too variable to be quoted here — see current announcements.
TO NORTHAM.
Bank. — National Provincial, Monday and Thursday, ii to i.
Distance. — IJ miles north of Bideford. There is a 'bus service.
Golf Links. — Working Men's Golf Club, i8 holes.
Places of Worship. — St. Margaret's (Parish Church), Congregational and Wesleyan;
Sunday services, ii and 6.30. Post Office. — 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. ; Simday, 9 to 10.30 a.m. ; Bank Holidaj^, 9.30
to II a.m.
There is little of interest in Northam, except a few quaint old houses, and at the cross-roads a beautiful War Memorial. The Church has an imposing interior and a handsome organ. On one of the pillars is the inscription " This Yele (aisle) was made Anno 1593."
Fine views of Northam Burrows and the Bay are obtained from Bone Hill, a public place where seats are provided, close to the church. Here is a cairn of West- ward Ho ! pebbles inscribed to naval heroes.
With admirable foresight, the Northam Urban Coun- cil have provided a good water supply, which is brought in from Melbury, some miles beyond Bideford. West- ward Ho ! and Appledore come in the same urban district and have the advantage of this supply.
Burrough House, has been rebuilt since Amyas Leigh lived here, as recorded in Kingsley's Westward Ho I Stephen Burrough and William Burrough, two doughty seamen, lived here about the year 1550. The former
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became chief pilot of England, and was of great assist- ance to Sir Hugh Willoughby's expedition to the Arctic Seas. The present Burrough House dates from 1868. It is a pleasant walk from Northam to Appledore. The visitor will note with interest an inscription on a stone raised by the roadside at a spot locally known as Bloody Corner. It reads —
" Bloody Comer. Stop ! Stranger, stop ! Near this spot lies buried King Hubba the Dane, Who was slain by Alfred the Great In a bloody retreat.
A.D. DCCCLXXXII."
The stone was erected by the late Mr. Charles Chap- pell. According to tradition, the Danes landed near here and laid siege to Kenwith Castle, but the Devon men made a desperate attack and cut off the invaders from their vessels. King Hubba was killed and his followers overpowered. Hubba' s stone lies nearer the beach.
TO APPLEDORE.
Aeeess. — By motor-'bus trom Bideford via Northam. Or by a pleasant riverside walk of 3J miles.
Ferry to Instow, 3d.
Places of Worship. — St. Mary's (Parish Church), erected 1838, Baptist, Congre- gational, Wesleyan, Plymouth Brethren, and Sailors' Missio>t, ii and 6.30.
One of the most beautiful walks in the district is that by the river bank from Bideford to Appledore (3^ miles). The way from the Quay is past the Park and shipyard, continuing by the waterside to Cleavehouses, where the path, after turning up a narrow lane, winds through lovely woods, enchanting glimpses of the river being obtained through the trees. (Precise directions should be obtained, as the walker may otherwise find himself coming out on the main road to Northam.) In places the path reaches a considerable height, and the views of Westleigh nestling among the trees on the other bank, with Instow close to the water's edge, will make the
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artist long to fix the scene on canvas. From this path, too, the best view can be obtained of Tapeley Park and House.
Quaint little Appledore, called by Kingsley the " little white fishing village," is situated directly opposite Instow, at the Junction of the rivers Taw and Torridge. Like Bideford, it is built on the side of a hill, but has no architectural pretensions. Some of the private resi- dences in the newer portions are pretty, but the older streets are narrow and mostly cobbled. There is much material for the artist, the quaint quay, with its shipping, making a pleasing picture. Shipbuilding and repairing is the local industry, there being several docks, and fishing is extensively carried on.
Visitors should walk through the long cobbled street of Old Appledore, turning to the right past the site of the railway station — signboard to Lifeboat House points the way — to the open space opposite the spot where Taw and Torridge unite their waters and flow into the sea between Braunton and Northam Burrows. Here are seats, welcome after the cobble stones. By continuing round the corner across the lifeboat slip — the lifeboat is launched from a carriage which runs on a long line of rails — then along the shore at low tide or the path above it at other times, to the gasworks, the road can be taken to Northam or Westward Ho !, not much more than half an hour's walk.
With the advent of the railway, for which Appledore waited many years, the place became popular with visitors, and the hotel accommodation improved in consequence. The railway was sacrificed to the exigen- cies of War, but the motor-' buses keep Appledore in close touch with Bideford and Westward Ho !
Fishing and river shooting can be indulged in, and sailing or rowing boats, in charge of competent boatmen, may be hired.
There is a choice of routes for the return journey ; (a) afoot or by motor-' bus by way of Northam, on the same side of the river ; (6) by ferry to Instow ; then to
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Bideford by train, or walk the three miles along the high road.
TO INSTOW.
Access. — By train or motor-'bus.
Bank. — Lloyds, Thursday, lo to 12.
Distance. — JFrom Bideford 3 miles, by rail, road, or river.
Ferry to Appledore, s^i.
Hotels. — MarineandNew Inn {Seep, xxiii). There are several apartment houses.
Places of Worship. — St. John the Baptist and Wesleyan Chapel. Sunday services
11 and 6.30. Post Office.- — Between pier and station, 9 a.m. to 7 p.m., but closed i to 2 p.m.
Sundays and Bank Holidays, 9 to 10.30 a.m. j
For years Instow has been a favourite resort of artists, who delight in the abundance of land and sea-scapes. The picturesque vessels lying in the Pool or on the beaches at Appledore form splendid studies. The pano- rama from the hills which protect Instow from east winds is unsurpassed for " breadth." The wide Tor- ridge, with Bideford in the distance and Appledore in the middle distance, always provides a beautiful view. To the north, the mouth of the Taw and the lowlands of Braunton, with the heights beyond, make a fine picture of quietness and solitude, the effect heightened by lonely Braunton Lighthouse. Beyond the confluence of the two rivers the great waves of the Atlantic roll over the bar, and in the far distance mysterious Lundy, twenty miles away, lies like a huge flat tableland against the horizon. Over Appledore the eye follows the dim, dark blue line of coast past Clovelly and Gallantry Bower to Hartland Point, with the Lighthouse, like a dot, at the foot. On a moderately clear evening the lights of Lundy Island and Hartland are well seen.
The splendid stretch of firm sand makes Instow an ideal place for children. The bathing from the beach is quite safe. For a place of this size the Parade is very creditably kept. Sailing is a popular pastime, and boats, with experienced men in charge, may be hired. Bass fishing is much indulged in. The ground of the North Devon Cricket Club (which is considered the oldest in Devon) is pleasantly situated beyond the sandhills. There is also a lawn tennis and croquet club.
Instow Quay, though not large, is substantially built.
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It makes a convenient landing for ferry passengers from Appledore, but, except at high tide, a long stretch of sand must be crossed. This ferry is most useful for anyone staying at Instow, as it brings Westward Ho ! and the Pebble Ridge within easy reach.
In Plantagenet days Instow belonged to the St. John family, and the name is a corruption of John's Town. To find the Old Church we must walk beyond the houses of Instow Quay about tlxree-quarters of a mile, to Instow Town. The Church, which has an embattled west tower, was thoroughly restored in 1875. It is worth looking into : there are some memorials to Devon worthies.
Less than a mile along the Bideford road is Tapeley, where are two of the Armada Guns referred to on pp. 10- II. The obelisk was raised to the memory of Cornet Cleveland, of the 17th Lancers, who fell at Inkerman.
TO WESTWARD HO !
Access. — By motor-'bus from Bideford.
Church. — Holy Triuity, built 1870 (chapel-of-ease) ; Baptist. Sunday services
at both, II and 6.30. Distance from Bideford. — By road via Northam, 3 miles. By road and footpath
about 2 miles. Signposts point ttie way. Golf Links. — Royal North Devon Golf Club. 18 holes. Entrance fee, £10 los. ;
subscription, £3 3s. Visitors, 6s. day, 30s. week, £"4 month' Hotels. — The Golden Bay ; Pebble Ridge. Post Office. — 9 a.m to 7 p.m. ; Sunday and Bank Holiday, 9 to 10.30 a.m.
With its natural advantages, it is remarkable that Westward Ho !, except for its well-deserved reputation in golfing circles, remained so long in the background. Even now, though largely visited, it hardly gains the patronage such surroundings merit. The name was given, after Charles Kingsley's famous novel, in 1863, when the Countess of Portsmouth laid the foundation- stone of what is now the Golden Bay Hotel (formerly the Royal), and much was hoped of the " settlement." However, things seemed to go contrary. The Kingsley Memorial College did not last ; the tide washed away the pier and some houses as well ; and some years ago the United Services College (in which Mr. Rudyard Kipling was educated and which he rendered famous in Stalky &> Co.) was removed nearer London. More
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recently another school has been opened. Retired officers form a large proportion of the residents, and use the Union Club. The equable climate is appreciated by many who have spent some years in the East.
The sands at Westward Ho ! — from which there is good bathing — are superb, and extend for about three miles. In summer many tents are dotted around. A distinctive feature is —
The Pebble Ridge,
about two miles long, composed of smooth, oval, grey stones. It is supposed that each of these pebbles was once a piece of rock torn from the Hartland cliffs by the waves, worn smooth in transit, and finally deposited, after miles of wandering, on the beach of West- ward Ho ! To lend support to this statement it is said that a Clovelly boatman, who had long been in the habit of securing the painter of his boat to an iron spike embedded in a piece of rock on the beach, one day discovered that the spike was missing. Years after- wards, walking across the Pebble Ridge, he caught his foot against what proved to be his own spiked pebble.
The Ridge is to-day much smaller than it has been. Formerly it was the custom annually to collect the stones which had been flung over the Burrows by the waves. These stones were collected and replaced by the inhabit- ants of Northam, who went by the old but not very euphonious name of " potwallopers." They enjoy valu- able common rights of pasturage. The work is now supervised by a Burrows Committee, working in con- junction with the lords of the manor (the Royal North Devon Golf Club) and the manor court, an ancient institution which is zealously maintained.
Beyond the Ridge is a Submerged Forest, of great interest to geologists. Petrified portions of trees are sometimes found, specimens of which can be seen in the Barnstaple Athenaeum. The gradual retreat of the Ridge before the Atlantic billows has laid bare a patch of blue clay, and from this, at intervals, relics of the
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Palaeolithic age are obtained. Many flint weapons and human remains have been found ; also the antlers of a red deer in excellent preservation. Some of these objects can be seen at the Museum connected with the Bideford Library.
Protected by the Pebble Ridge are the famous Golf Links of the Royal North Devon Golf Club, one of the courses on the Championship rota. These links are the chief glory of Westward Ho ! and many, both amateurs and professionals, claim them to be unexcelled in the South or West of England. The great majority of visitors who stay at Westward Ho ! for any length of time are golfers. There is a well-appointed club-house, and the large membership includes some of the best players in the country. Water is laid on to all the putting greens. J. H. Taylor learnt his golf here.
TO ABBOTSHAM CLIFFS.
Distance from Bideford — 4 miles. This is an enjoyable walk, which can also be made from Westward Ho ! (i| miles). From Bideford, take the Abbotsham Road at the top of High Street. This leads directly to the village of Abbotsham. The Parish Church (St. Helen's), in the Early English style, was restored in 1870. A monument to Anthony Hony is dated 1639. The beautifully carved bench-ends — a feature of so many North Devon churches — should not pass unnoticed. To reach the cliffs, go through the village and take the lane on the right past the Post Of&ce ; turn right at second opportunity, then past a prosperous farm with a water-garden opposite until after a lane (left) a track (right) leads to cliffs. A better way is to take the first turn to the right soon after turning up past the Post OfS.ce, joining a road coming in on the right and going left soon after, continuing to the lodge of Abbotsham Court, close to which a gate gives access to a narrow lane eventually leading to the cliffs. Tourists are recommended to ask precise directions in the village to prevent them going wrong. From the cliffs the
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view is very beautiful. The return by way of Westward Ho ! is the best.
TO WEAR GIFFORD.
Distance from Bideford. — 3 miles by road (on public motor route) or river.
This idyllic spot can be reached, easily and pleasantly, by water when the tide serves. It is also a favourite drive from Bideford.
Wear Gifford is noted throughout North Devon for its strawberry teas. The old Hall, embattled and ivy-clad, makes a strikingly pretty picture, with the Torridge sweeping round it, and set, as it were, in a little amphi- theatre of cliffs and hills. The scenery calls to mind similar places in the Wye Valley. The Hall, which contains splendid wood carvings, has survived periods of varying good and bad fortune. It was defended against the forces of the Parliament, but surrendered. Cromwell's men have not the reputation of adding to the beauty or even preserving the property of Royalists. A couple of centuries later it was used as a farmhouse, but it has now reverted to its proper use as a mansion. The Hall has belonged to the Fortescue family from the fifteenth century, and in the adjoining Church (Holy Trinity) are numerous inscriptions to their memory. Over the chancel door on the south wall is a mural painting in good preservation representing the martyr- dom of St. Edmund. There are six bells in the tower, the tenor being inscribed, " Religion, death and pleasure make me ring."
TO GREAT TORRINGTON.
Access from Bideford. — 6 miles. By train or motor-'bus, the latter preferable on account of the charming scenery, unless time is limited. Great Torrjng- ton is 3 miles beyond Wear Gifford. Visitors using a privately- hired vehicle, would do well to instruct the driver to take the road by the river for the forward journey, returning via Frithelstock and Monkleigh. This will only add about two to three miles to the distance.
Banks. — Barclays, Lloyds, Midland, National Provincial — all near one another in High Street and Fore Street.
Bowls. — On the Castle Mound is the oldest bowling green in North Devon.
Early Closing Day.— Thursday.
Fishing. — Excellent fishing may be had. For licences issued by Taw and Torridge Conservators see Barnstaple Section, p. i.
Golf. — On high ground at Darracott, two miles from Torrington. 9 holes. Green fees (which should be paid at the Globe Hotel), 2s. 6d. per day, los. week.
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Botel— Globe.
Places ot Worship.^Si. Michael's (Parish), Baptist, Congregational, United
Methodist, Wesley an. Sunday services at ii and 6.30. Post Ofllce.— Fore Street, 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. ; Sunday and Bank Holidays 9 to 10.30
a.m.
Railway Service. — Torrington is the terminus of the North Devon line of the Southern Railway. The station is a mile from the town, at the bottom of the hill. An omnibus meets all trains.
The North Devon and Cornwall Junction Light Railway. — In
1922 was begun a new railway to connect Torrington with Halwill Junction, on the North Cornwall Line of the Southern Railway. The first si.x miles from Torrington are along the route of the former Light Railway to Peters Marland, the gradients being reduced and the curves widened. A new bridge has been constructed over the Torridge, and part of the old wooden viaduct across the valley filled in to form an embankment. The old railway was constructed by Mr. Fell, the engineer of the Mont Cenis Railway.
Great Torrington, so called to distinguish it from Little and Black Torrington, is an old-fashioned municipal borough and market town, occupying the summit and slope of a high hill. It is of great antiquity. The old Church, in which Cardinal Wolsey had preached, was accidentally blown up by gunpowder during the Civil War ; the present fane was erected in 1651. Warriors returned from Palestine affirm that Torrington, by reason of its situation and approach, bears a striking resem- blance to Jerusalem. In the centre of the Market Square is a prettily-designed fountain. The Market (market-day, Saturday) is close to the Town Hall, in which are several interesting portraits. A door at the farther end of the Market leads on to the Castle Mound, which is also reached by way of South Street and Castle Street. From the Mound there is a sviperb view of the surrounding country, the Torridge flowing peacefully at the foot of the liill, which was once crowned by a castle. Seats are conveniently placed for those who wish to enjoy the view. Close to the flagstaff is a well- kept Bowling Green, for the ancient and honourable game of bowls has here as strong adherents as has golf at Westward Ho ! A little to the south-east of the Castle Mound, at the edge of the escarpment above the river, is a curious Obelisk commemorating the battle of Waterloo. A glove-making industry provides considerable employ- ment.
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The Cottage Hospital was erected as a memorial of the Hon. Mark Rolle and other benefactors of the town. There are an Institute with reading room and a Cinema.
The slopes above the Torridge, intersected with paths and dotted with seats, with extensive views of the sur- rounding country, are one of the attractions of Torring- ton, while on the other side of the town are extensive undulating gorse-covered commons. Fishing is to be had in abundance, and is highly popular with residents and visitors. Considering its surroundings, it was only to be expected that Torrington would bring itself up-to- date by catering for golfers, the g-hole links of the Golf Club being a short distance from the town. The Stevenstone Foxhounds, whose kennels are not far from Rothern Bridge, hunt the district.
A few miles from Torrington is the beautiful park and mansion of Stevenstone, so long identified with the Rolle family.
Historical Note.
Great Torrington has a pre-Norman ancestry. In old records it is called Cheping-Torrington, a proof of the antiquity of its market. A Castle, of which few traces remain, was erected during the Norman period. The town long " enjoyed " the right of sending representa- tives to Parliament, but in 1368 successfully petitioned for exemption from the privilege, as the expense was more than it could afford. In the reign of Mary the town received its charter of incorporation.
Torrington was the centre of stirring scenes during the Civil War. In December, 1642, a body of about five hundred Royalists possessed themselves of the town, in order to form a base for active operations against Barn- staple and Bideford, and endeavoured to raise more forces. Barnstaple attacked them, hoping to destroy, before it could increase in size, this leaven of loyalty which had suddenly appeared. The party chroniclers on each side claimed the victory, but the Royalists fled from the town. After various skirmishes. Colonel Digby
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occupied Torrington again (July, 1643) with a strong Royalist force. Again the Barnstaple men attacked, but were defeated. Colonel Digby then marched upon and took Bideford, and subsequently Barnstaple. In February, 1645, Fairfax himself left Exeter for Torring- ton with ten thousand men, and after severe fighting the town was taken, with " three thousand stands of arms, the whole of the baggage and money, and more than six hundred prisoners." This victory utterly crippled the Royalist forces in Devon. In the church the Royalists had stored their powder, and during the engagement this exploded, entirely wrecking the build- ing. It was re-erected in 1651, and John Howe was " intruded " as vicar. Ten years later he was ejected, and became the founder of the Congregational body in Torrington, whose church is known as the Howe Congre- gational Church. It was James Buckpitt, the minister of this church, who, when a Bishop of Exeter refused to consecrate the conformist part of the cemetery unless it was divided from the unconsecrated part by a wall, made such an emphatic protest that the Bishop retracted his refusal, and the circumstances had national results.
TO MONKLEIGH.
Distance from Bideford — 4 miles. A pleasant return journey from Torrington, if one is driving, is by way of Monkleigh, a pretty village high among the hills. Included in the parish are some fine residences, among them Annery, which descended from the family of that name to the Hankfords, one of whom was Lord Chief Justice. It is said that, having given instructions to his keeper to shoot anyone he met in the park with designs upon the deer, the faithful man one " dark tempestuous night " met his master in the park and challenged him. Receiving no reply, he notched an arrow and shot the marauder, as he thought him. The judge fell dead beneath Hankford Oak. He w-as buried in Monkleigh Church, where a monument depicting him in robes may be seen. While some
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historians thus ascribe his death to accident, others, less charitable, suggest that he was tired of life, but, fearing to put an end to his existence by his own hand, adopted the strange course detailed above.
Those interested in churches may be recommended to make their drive a little longer by taking in Frithelstock, where there are scanty remains of an Early English Priory beside the church. Then return to Bideford via Buckland Brewer, where in the rebuilt church is a fine Norman doorway with beaked heads. Buckland Brewer is also notable from its connection with Edward Capern, the postman-poet.
TO LITTLEHAM.
Distance from Bideford — 2 miles. A pretty walk southward, showing the surrounding villages dotted over the landscape, and several church towers. Bideford and the bridge are also seen to ad- vantage. The Church (St. Swithin's) dates from 1319, and has many features of interest. A few years ago it was restored and lavishly decorated. A white marble altar-tomb, some five feet high, to Lieut. -General Crea- lock, occupies about a fourth of the whole church. Littleham once had a splendid screen, but lost it. The present oak screen is quite unlike the usual Devon type, but the carved seat-ends and choir stalls are interesting. During restoration a fresco representing a bishop was discovered behind a thick covering of plaster. Visitors having inspected this beautiful church will not regret the stiff climb to Littleham.
CLOVELLY.
Access. — Daily in summer (June to September) and thrice weekly in winter, a regular service of passenger motors is maintained between Clovelly and Bideford in connection with the Southern Railway. (For times see current time-tables.) There are also the motor mail brake service (twice daily) and motor-'bus services from Bideford and Bude. Clovelly is also much visited by public motors from almost all parts of Devon and North Cornwall. Thousands come also by steamer from Ilfracombe and the Bristol Channel ports.
Bank. — National Provincial. At the Reading Room at the top of the street, the first Friday in each month, 12 to 2 p.m., andfrom July 16 to September 11 every Friday.
Distance from Bideford. — 11 miles.
Hotels. — New Inn, near the top of High Street ; Red Lion, on the Quay. There are many refreshment places which provide tea and Ught luncheons.
Places of Worship. — All Saints' (Parish Church), and WesUyan Chapel.
Post Office. — About halfway down the street.
Reading Room. — At top of street. Visitors pay xd. per day.
" Clovelly, ah, sweet Clovelly, beside the western ocean sleeping, Thy rocks and woodlands the noontide steeping in golden ray ; And when I wander sad and friendless, in lands a thousand leagues
away, I long and long for my returning, but nevermore will come the day."
VERNE, in A Song of Devon, quoted above, was the first to immortalize Clovelly in song, but Charles Kingsley had already fixed the spot for ever in the minds of readers by his beautiful prose description. He had a true affection for the little village of which his father was at one time rector, an affection which can be traced through every word of his eulogy :
" Take the steepest hillside with which you are acquainted ; let the Atlantic roll at its base ; cover it with ancient trees and tangled undergrowth to its summit ; suppose a brawling stream to fall in a deep and narrow channel from the heights to the shore ; in your mind's eye people its banks with a straggling village of irregularly shaped lichen-covered cottages, on so sharp an incline that the base of the one is on a level with the roof of its neighbour ; pave the street with miniature boulders from the shore, arranged in a series of terraces, and
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terminate the descent by an antique pier of wave-worn stones, from which the only approach to the sea at low water is by ladders, whose perpendicular depths may well startle the inexperienced traveller ; and then you will obtain something which would resemble Clovelly, if it were not indeed unique in its singular construction and beauty, and did not surpass all descriptive powers, whether of pen or pencil."
It is claimed that Kingsley " discovered " Clovelly, but there are those who advance a much older claim, and in support of a contention that the Romans, seventy years before the Clixistian era, enjoyed the charms of Clausa Vallis quote Virgil's ^neid :
" Within a long recess there lies a bay : An island shades it from the open sea, And forms a port secure for ships to ride : Broke by the jutting land, on either side In double streams the briny waters gUde."
Lundy is presumed to be the island, and Clovelly is suggested as an Anglicized form of Clausa Vallis — the enclosed valley. The description might equally apply to other places on the North Devon coast, iDut the quotation is of interest. Clovelly Dykes — a peculiar formation of earthworks at Clovelly Cross, on the Hart- land road — if they are of Roman origin, or adapted by the Romans from British entrenchments, as is probable, would bear out the theory.
Clovelly, though far from railways, is not difficult of access. From Bideford there is regular connection by the motor-'buses run in conjunction with the Southern Railway, besides other motor services, and in summer all cars from Ilfracombe to Clovelly call at Bideford. Shoals of day visitors come also from Bude, and even from places as distant as Torquay. For cycling and motoring the road is fair, though somewhat hilly. The best and most popular route, however, is by the steamers.
The drive from Bideford is along the summit of a ridge sufficiently high to command a succession of extensive views, with the sea away on the right, and on the left the church towers of Parkham and Buckland
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Brewer, which can be seen for miles around. There are plenty of hamlets on the road with old-world inns, and if one takes a horsed vehicle the driver does not need much persuasion to stop at Fairy Cross, Horns Cross and Hoop's Inn. The entrance to the famous Hobby Drive is passed before the steep descent to Clovelly begins. The conveyances stop at the top of the cobbled descent, and an extensive garage and parking place for motors has been constructed just off the road.
Clovelly streets (or street, for it is one winding path) culminate in a series of wide cobble-paved steps, upon which the usual beasts of burden are pannier-laden donkeys. In 1920 the street was for the first time climbed by a motor-car, which was considered so excep- tional a feat that it was " filmed."
Clovelly has been truly described as " a place unlike any other in the kingdom," and this is the secret of its popularity with many visitors. The one street is often so crowded with visitors as to resemble a queue awaiting entrance at a theatre. Looking down the street one sees a narrow torrent of flower-decked cottages, no two exactly alike, either in design or colouring. Flowers bloom all over the place. Giant fuchsias, almost wild, quite cover the fronts of some of the tiny cottages, and the air is so mild that later than at almost any other place in Devon may be seen in flower honeysuckle, hydrangeas, jessamine, camellia, japonica, and rhodo- dendrons. Originally a stream ran down the street, but the water was long ago diverted.
The two Inns are comfortable, and the terms moder- ate. The New Inn (rebuilt) is in the main street ; the Red Lion on the Quay. The Quay is a strongly-built stone Pier, constructed by George Cary, whose family held the manor so far back as the reign of Richard II. Sheltered by the harbour is a Lifeboat House, and the hardy Clovelly fishermen will man the boat in any weather. Near the top of the village is a Reading Room, maintained by the generosity of the Hamlyn family, of Clovelly Court.
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Clovelly Church. Quite close to Clovelly Court, at what may be called the entrance to Clovelly, is the Church. In passing note the inscription on the lodge at the Court entrance, placed there by the former owner on his return from abroad, " Go North, Go South, Go East, Go West ; Home's Best." The present mansion is of later date than that occupied by the Carys. The Church (All Saints') is an ancient structure of mixed architecture. There is a lych gate, a rebuilt Norman porch, and a low embattled west tower. A sundial is dated 1678, but the register dates from a few years later, 1686. Within the altar rails is a brass, dated 1540, representing a knight of the period, with the request, " Praye for the soule of Walter Robert Cary, Esquire." Two other epitaphs bear witness to the loyalty of this famous Devonshire family :
" In memory of William Cary, Esqr., who served his King and country in ye office of a Justice of Peace under three Princes — Qu. EUzabeth, King lames, and King Charles I. And having served his generation, dyed in the 76 yeare of his age, An. Dom. 1652, Omnins caro fceniim."
" In memory of Sir Robert Cary, Kt. (Sonne and Heyre of Wilham,) Gentleman of the Privy Chamber vnto King Charles 2d., who, having served faithfully the glorious Prince, Charles I., in the long civil warr against his rebellious subjects, and both him and his Sonne as Justice of the Peace. He died a Bachelour, in the 65th yeare of his Age, An. Dom. 1675, Peritura perituris relique."
A curious Cary memorial is to be seen on the window sill in the north side of the chancel, a square brass, depicting a skeleton holding a spade, commemorating the young daughter of Dr. George Cary who died in 1655.
One simple inscription, on the left of the little chancel,
always gathers a silent respectful crowd . The brass reads —
June 12th, i8ig. — -January 23rd, 1875.
In memory of
Charles Kingsley,
Rector of Eversley, Canon of Westminster,
Poet, Preacher, NoveUst,
Son of Charles Kingsley, sometime Rector
of this Parish, and of Mary Lucas, his wife.
The old peal of four bells was increased to five in 1900. and in 1905 a sixth was added. The latest bell bears the inscription : " Ring out, ye bells of Clovelly."
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The Hobby Drive.
The Hobby Drive is so named because its construction was the hobby of its projector, Sir J. H. WiUiams. The entrance from the Clovelly road is just beyond the eighth milestone from Bideford, and Clovelly itself can be reached by this route. The " Drive " consists of a winding carriage road, three miles long, through the thickly-wooded combes to the east of Clovelly. The views obtained by peeps through the trees are most enchanting and beyond description. Certainly this is an idyllic spot. Being private property, a charge of ^d. each (devoted to charities) is made to pedestrians for admission ; cycles and donkeys, 6d. ; carriages, is. 6d. It is not a motor road.
At the top of the street, opposite the entrance to the Hobby Drive on one side and the Yellery Gate entrance to the grounds of Clovelly Court on the other, is Mount Pleasant, the open space presented by Mrs. Hamlyn to the National Trust for the use of the public as a memorial to the local men who fell in the war. From it fine views over the Bay naay be obtained. Here is the War Memorial.
Clovelly Dykes.
Close to the junction of the main road (Bideford to Hartland) and the road to Clovelly village are remains of extensive earthworks. The plan of the ancient encampment can be traced, and shows that the place must have been of great strategical importance in early
British days. Clovelly Dykes are three encampments, .—
each with its own vallum and ditch. The outer embank- ment surrounds an area of some thirty acres. There is" a splendid view from the top. /Jt.*.-^ Lt^ — /3 <^y'v->^
Bucks Mill, ^ /jCt^^ (>^^rz>^
or " Buckish," is the collection of little white houses which may be seen from Clovelly Pier some 2.\ miles to the east, perched in a seemingly most precarious position on the cliffs. At one time all the inhabitants of Bucks
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were " Braunds," and many of that name live there still. They seem to be a distinct race, swarthy to a degree, and are held to be the offspring of a party of Spaniards who some say were wrecked near, and others contend were taken prisoners at the time of the Armada; A Braund was at one time locally known as the " King of Bucks." At low tide Bucks Mill may be reached by walking along the shore, which course enables one to see the Freshwater Cascade which originally flowed through Clovelly, but which now adds to the countless attrac- tions of the Hobby Drive. The fall can be seen from Clovelly harbour, tumbling from the cliff to the beach.
Gallantry Bower.
Admission to Park, Gallantry Bower, etc., daily ticket 6d., weekly is.
The walk here is again through private property. The entrance, called the Yellery Gate, is at the top of Clovelly village, on the right (the Hobby Drive gate being opposite on the left). The footpath passes in sight of Clovelly Court {see p. 28.)
Gallantry Bower is the inappropriate name bestowed on a huge cliff of four hundred feet, almost perpendicular and wonderfully smooth. Venturous folk lie flat down on the grass and look over. This is not recommended. Peeps at the cliff are easily obtainable by following the right path to one or two snug coigns of vantage at the side. The path continues across a common-like expanse with wide views and by a zigzag descends to the entrance gate to The Wilderness, affording fine views of Gallantry Bower. Then it ascends to a cliff nearly as high and just as perpendicular, overlooking the little bay at —
Mouth Mill,
a charming dell opening on to the sea, with a gorgeous background of sloping hills clothed with semi-tropical luxuriance. It can be reached by the road just below the entrance gate of The Wilderness. Of course, there is a stream, which bubbles a noisy course through the wood, races joyfully through the open vale, and is quietly
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swallowed by the ocean. By the stream is a cottage where tea and light refreshments may be had. Each year sees an increasing number of visitors to this neigh- bourhood, and the demand for accommodation at sur- rounding farms is growing considerably.
The rocks at Mouth Mill are stupendous, notably Black Church Rock, eighty feet high, with a natural arch worn by the waves. Mouth Mill is a delightful place for a picnic. The walk up the combe, through a fairyland of ferns, trees and stream, is recommended, and a more lovely place for a ramble it would be hard to find. To return to Clovelly there is no better way than to retrace one's steps. Visitors should remember that these are private grounds and keep to the paths indicated.
MOUTH MILL TO HARTLAND POINT.
Before further investigation is made of this superb coast, which becomes grander and wilder at every step westward, it must be clearly understood that —
(a) There is plenty of rough climbing, and each adventurer practically makes his own path, and that parts of it are hardly worth the exertion entailed, while at one or two points fields reach right to the cliff's edge.
{b) The distances are : Hartland Point and the Lighthouse, four miles from Mouth Mill, with a return road to Clovelly of about seven or eight miles. The destination is Hartland Quay, three miles south of Hartland Point.
(c) There is no hotel on the coast nearer than Hartland Quay, three miles beyond the Lighthouse at the Point. In the event of being belated, travellers must us i their own discretion whether they make for Hartland Town or Hartland Quay. The latter is nearer the Lighthouse.
Pedestrians sometimes find that towards the end of the day they have not accomplished the full route intended. In case of this eventuality, or other mishap, there are always vehicles at the Hartland Quay Hotel, or the King's Arms, Hartland Town.
After mounting, by a very stiff climb, the cliff on the west side corresponding to the cliff descended from Gal- lantry Bower, we cross another ravine. Next comes Windbury Head, on which are some earthworks. Soon after we cross Exmansworthy Cliff, a hundred feet higher
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than Gallantry Bower. The Chapman Rocks are next passed, then Fatacott Cliff- — the highest on this part of the coast. Shipload Bay is a mile beyond Chapman Rocks. Here a road leads inland to Hartland Town, and those bound for Hartland Point will lose little by turning inland past East Titchberry Farm and continuing right by the road to the lighthouse. Shipload Bay is about the only place hereabouts where it is possible to descend to the shore. From Shipload Bay the first cable to Lundy Island was laid. On the right-hand side, looking towards the sea, will be noticed the peculiarly contorted rocks of Eldern Point. Titchberry Cliffs are next sur- mounted, and about half a mile beyond is Hartland Point, three hundred and fifty feet high. A path leads from the summit down to the plateau, near the foot, on which the Lighthouse stands. From the Lighthouse the road inland leads to Hartland Town, from which we can return to Clovelly, or the cliff path can be continued to Hartland Quay, three miles, the direction being due south, passing Blackmouth.
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HARTLAND.
AT Hartland, 13^ miles from Bideford and five miles from Clovelly, we reach practically the western limit of Devonshire, and the coast-line assumes a rougher and bolder character as we approach the north coast of Cornwall. The town of Hartland is three miles inland, about equi-distant from the Point and the Quay ; but along the coast we come to —
Hartland Quay.
Approach. — The motor mail leaves Bideford every morning and afternoon, bringing letters or passengers as far as Hartland Town. One or two general carriers return from Bideford to Hartland Town on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays. The motor-'bus service between Bideford and Bude passes through Hartland Town. Many of the motor coaches from Bideford, Bude, and other centres, include Hartland in their routes and allow for a short stay at the Quay and for an inspection of the Church at Stoke.
Distance.' — 16 miles from Bideford.
Hotel. ^ — Hartland Quay Hotel {see also p. xxiii).
Besides the Hotel there are scarcely any houses here and the Quay is more a name than a reality. The sea- views, however, are magnificent, and after a glance at the jagged rocks one can imagine the heartrending scenes witnessed in case of shipwreck.
When approaching from Stoke or from Hartland Town the houses at the Quay are not seen until almost the edge of the cliff is reached, when a road and pathway descend very steeply to the rocks below.
At the top of the steep hill behind the Hotel is the building containing the rocket apparatus. Beside this is a stile. Cross this stile and proceed along the cliffs, passing the ruins of a stone-built summer house. Black- mouth soon comes in sight. This is sometimes called Blackpool Mill, or Blackpole Mill in some old documents, temp. Queen Elizabeth. Of course the mill has vanished, but the Mouth at all seasons is a place of wonder. In rough weather the spectacle is grand in the extreme. In calm weather the scene has a sweetness and fascina- Bideford (d) 33
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tion that never fail to charm. A Httle bridge crosses the stream which flows from the valley down through the Mouth. About a hundred yards below the bridge is a cascade.
Take the path up the valley on the left, passing through various gates which enclose the private grounds of Hartland Abbey. The path ends in a road, beyond which is seen the Abbey itself, most romantically situated.
Hartland Abbey is a mansion built on the site and incor- porating the cloisters of an ancient abbey founded early in the eleventh century by Githa, wife of Earl Godwin, and the mother of Harold, as a thankoffering to St. Nectan for the preservation of her husband from ship- wreck. The house is private, and visitors are not admitted.
Other authorities afi&rm that Githa established not an abbey but a college of secular canons. All agree that she built a church also. If Githa was not the foundress of the Abbey it was probably one Geoffrey, son of Oliver de Dynham, who obtained from Henry II licence to change the college of secular canons into regular canons of the order of St. Augus- tine, and to found a monastery. The transfer was confirmed by Bartholomew, Bishop of Exeter. Richard I granted to the Abbey the ecclesiastical " Right of Gallows." By various grants Hartland was made opulent. In 1312 the cloisters were built.
To meet the requirements of the fairly large population of Hartland, it would appear that the present St. Nectan's Church was built about the year 1350, on the site of the old church which had accommodated the saint himself. At the Dissolution the Abbey Church, which stood on the east side of the Abbey, was pulled down. With the commodious erection of St. Nectan's close by, it doubtless appeared un- necessary to maintain the Abbey Church, which had probably been in existence over five hundred years. In 1545 Henry VIII granted " the site of the priory " to one William Abbott — a most appropriately-named gentleman. The old buildings had already shown signs of decay, but they do not appear to have been substantially restored, either by the Abbott family or by the Luttrells, who next held them. The property passed by marriage to Paul Orchard in 1722, and in 1740 to his son, who bore the same name. This gentleman is credited with having built on the old foundations, in 1779, the mansion now known as Hartland Abbey, incorporating into his new building the cloisters and part of the then existing walls.
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From Orchard the Abbey descended to his great-nephew, L. W. Buck, and from him to his son, who became Sir George Stucley, Bart. The property is still in the possession of the Stucley family.
The valley in which the Abbey stands is very pictur- esque. Magnificent woods clothe the sides, and at the foot flows a lovely stream.
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St. Nectan's Church, at Stoke, between Hartland Town and the Quay, is seen from many a long mile away to impinge on the skyline ; consequently the view from the top (not a difficult ascent) is extensive. The tower, which also serves as a landmark for mariners, is 144 ft. high, including pin- nacles, and contains in the east wall a large figure re- presenting St. Nee tan. The tower dates from 1400, the Church from about 1350. The Norman font has some grotesque carving. On the north side of the Church is a Norman doorway. There are numerous memorials dating back to 1619. A modern cross, 15 ft. high, stands in the churchyard. Excavations for its erection disclosed a very early font and an altar-slab with five crosses. The most treasured possession of the Church is its nobly-proportioned fifteenth-century screen, lavish in design, ornate in decoration, marvellous in workmansliip, and nearly perfect in preservation. The screen is 45 ft. wide, the entire width of the Church. The height is about 15 ft. The staircase to the rood loft still exists.
The Lady Chapel — restored several years ago — has a magnificent roof. This was formerly known as " Our Lady Aisle," and was probably the chapel of the Guild of St. Mary. In it Mass was said until some years after the Reformation. The priest was paid by one Hugh Prust, who provided the seats, made in Bideford, and the initials " H.P." may be found on some of the bench ends in other parts of the Church. There is a Norman font. The main altar came from the Abbey. Some panels of the old pulpit, on which is " God save Kinge James
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Fines," are kept in a chamber over the north porch. No one has satisfactorily explained the meaning of the word " Fines." Here are also the parish stocks. It is commonly said that this room was called the " Pope's Chamber," a mistake arising from the name of Thos. Pope, last Abbot of Hartland.
The vestry contains a " Register of Births and Deaths, 1558-1652," written in beautiful " copper-plate."
There are six bells in the tower, recast in 1826, four bearing characteristic inscriptions. In the plantation adjoining the churchyard are two of the old pinnacles from the tower. The Church was restored in 1850. In 1901 it narrowly escaped destruction by fire. The roof suffered much damage, but the flames were subdued before the priceless screen was harmed.
St. Nectan, the eldest son of Brechan, King of Brecknock, came over from Wales, it is said, with the twenty-three other children of the king, in the year 595, to preach Christianity and remove Druidical superstitions. The name of this saint is preserved not only here at Hartland, but also at Welcombe, near the county boundary, and at Lostwithiel.
Leaving the Church by the east gate we pass through the hamlet of Stoke. The road goes steeply down into the valley again, but at a point beyond the Abbey. Half-way along this romantic valley is little Bow Bridge, affording a most pleasing view of the Abbey, with its surrounding woodland.
Hartland Town.
Bank. — Lloyds, Monday and Thursday, 12 to 3.
Communication. — With Bideford by motor mail brake. By motor-'bus with
Bideford and Bude. By motor coaches from Bideford, Bude, etc. Hotel. — King's Arms. Inns. — Anchor and Neiv Inn. Places ol Worship. — St. John's (Chapel-of-Ease). Services 8 and 10 a.m., 6.30
p.m. ; United Methodist and Wesleyan. Post Office. — 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. ; Smiday, 9 to 10.30 a.m.
Hartland Town, once an important borough, is so no longer. Its charter, d^ted 1285, has lapsed, the mayor and town council no longer exist, and the municipal functions have fallen into desuetude. The Town Hall has vanished, and on its site was built, in 1839, St. John's Chapel-of-Ease.
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Hartland Point.
To reach Hartland Point from the Quay (3 miles) take the same route as to Blackmouth, whence the path to Hartland Point will be seen creeping up the steep opposite (north) side of the Mouth. The path continues along the cliff top, passing a stream which ends in a waterfall. The rocks near the Point are fearfully and wonderfully made.
Hartland Point (350 ft. high) affords the finest coast view — both ways — in North Devon. Ptolemy called the Point " The Promontory of Hercules." The cliff scenery is very grand. The Lighthouse (open on weekdays from I p.m. to one hour before sunset) stands on a plateau below the cliffs, 120 ft. above sea-level. The keepers exhibit parts of the interior, such as the fog- signalling apparatus, the lantern and reflectors, to visitors.
An enjoyable walk from Hartland Quay is that to Speke's Mouth Waterfall ; it can be continued to Wel- combe, a village most appropriately named, as it is the first the visitor reaches on entering Devonshire from the Cornish side. The village has of late become popular with visitors, for whom several good farmhouses provide accommodation. The surrounding scenery is very attractive, and those seeking a restful holiday, with the best of sea and country air, would do well to make a note of this hospitable spot (nearest station, Bude). Hartland Moors are health-giving and expansive, and the West Country Inn is near. Close by also may be found the source of the rivers Torridge and Tamar. They rise about five miles from the sea and flow nearer fifty before reaching the ocean on opposite sides of the county.
Between three and four miles south of Speke's Mouth, and about two miles north of Morwenstow, is Marsland Mouth, a beautiful combe which with its stream helps to divide Cornwall from Devon. Readers of Kingsley's Westward Ho f will remember how " the fair Rose of Torridge " carried out at Marsland Mouth the " White Witch's instructions," and how the scheming Jesuits were discomfited.
MORWENSTOW.
APART from the fine drive that an excursion over the border into Cornwall affords, the memory of that remarkable personage, the Rev. R. S. Hawker, brings a great many visitors to pretty Morwenstow.
The romantically placed Church of St. Morwenna is one of the most interesting in Cornwall. Its ancient foundation is borne out by the record of the endowment which still exists. " The striking point of this ancient document is that whereas the date of the endowment is 1296, the church is therein referred to by name as an old and well-known structure. To such a remote era, therefore, we must assign the Norman relics of antiquity which still survive."
Leaving the green, with the Bush Inn on the left, the Church is reached by the road turning down on the right. It stands on the side of a deep valley running in from the sea. Here it was that R. S. Hawker, the divine, the literate, the poet, the eccentric, lived, preached and worked from 1834 to 1875. The porch has numerous points of interest besides the fine Norman doorway. This and the three arches on the north side are said to be the remains of the former Church, dedicated to the same saint about the year 875. Hawker had a wonderful knack of reading a significance in the smallest detail of his church. The late S. Baring-Gould, in his The Vicar of Morwenstow, mentions :
" When I first visited the church, I exclaimed at the beauty of the zigzag moulding. ' Zigzag ! zigzag ! ' echoed the vicar, scornfully, ' do you not see that it is near the font that this ornament occurs ? It is the ripple of the lake at Gennesareth, the spirit breathing upon the waters of baptism. Look without the church — there is the restless old ocean thundering
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with all his waves ; you can hear the roar from here. Look within — all is calm ; there plays over the baptismal pool only the Dove who fans it into ripples with His healing wings.' "
The same zigzag moulding over the door will be noticed at Kilkhampton and at one or two other Cornish churches. Hawker's interpretation is beautiful and poetic, but not strictly accurate.
The not uncommon decoration found in the carved woodw^ork of many West of England churches, and of which there are some good examples in Morwenstow Church, inspired the following lines :
" Hearken ! There is in old Morwenna's shrine, A lonely sanctuary of the Saxon days. Reared by the Severn sea for prayer and praise.
Amid the carved work of the roof, a vine. Its root is where the eastern sunbeams fall First in the chancel, then along the wall ;
Slowly it travels on, a leafy line.
With here and there a cluster, and anon
More and more grapes, until the growth hath gone
Through arch and aisle. Hearken ! and heed the sign. See at the altar side the steadfast root : Mark well the branches, count the summer fruit !
So let a meek and faithful heart be thine. And gather from that tree a parable divine."
The font, said to be 800 years old, is irregularly shaped and ornamented with a cable pattern. The bench-ends, dating from 1575, are all finely carved. The handsome screen of the Perpendicular period was erected in 1575. In 1825 one of the churchwardens had it removed, but it was replaced in 1845. The fresco on the north chancel wall was discovered in 1884. The register dates from 1558. There are numerous ancient memorials here.
Chiefly owing to the interest of Lord Rosebery, as- sisted by other admirers of Hawker's work, a beautiful window has been erected in the church to the famous Vicar's memory, embodying scenes and legends com- memorated in his verse. In the churchyard the figure- head of the brig Caledonia marks the spot where are
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buried many of her shipwrecked sailors (1842). A cross, erected by Hawker, stands by the church stile. There is also in the churchyard an altar-tomb to John Manning and Christina his wife, who died 1546.
The Vicarage nearly adjoins. It was built by Hawker, and over the doorway is an inscription reading —
" A house, a glebe, a pound a day, A pleasant place to watch and pray. Be true to Church, be kind to poor, O Minister, for evermore ! "
The chimne3^-stacks of the Vicarage were built to represent different church towers in miniature : Strat- ton, Whitstone, North Tamerton (with which places Hawker was associated), and two Oxford lowers. The kitchen chimney represents his mother's tomb.
From the west side of the churchyard a palh leads along high ground to Hawker's Hut, a favourite retreat of the Vicar's, and one affording beautiful views in all directions.
A difficult path leads to St. Morwennas Well, on the cliff. The arched covering still remains. Near the churchyard is the Well of St. John in the Wilderness.
About a mile from Morwenstow is Tonacombe, probably the best specimen of a fifteenth and sixteenth-century manor-house in the West.
For a fuller description of this neighbourhood and of Bude the reader is referred to the Guide to Bude and North Cornwall in this series.
Barnstaple (b)
BARNSTAPLE.
Banks. — Barclays, Lloyds, Midland, National Provincial, Devon & Exeter Savings Bank.
Boating. — ^There are two stations where boats may be hired. Pleasant trips caa be made up the Taw and in the estuary.
Bowls. — The principal green is that of the Barnstaple Bowling Club, in Ashleigh Road. The town has provided the champion bowling club in the county. There is also a green at Newport.
Cinema. — At the Theatre Royal.
Early Closing Day. — \A'edncsday.
Fishing. — ^The Taw and the Torridge are noted for salmon and trout. The Fox and Hounds Hotel, Eggesford, is popular with anglers on the Taw. Both rivers are under the supervision of the Taw and Torridge Fishery Board, which controls fishing infall waters flowing into the sea between Somerset and Cornwall borders, and licences are issued by the Clerk to the Board (Barnstaple) and distributors in the different districts. For the upper waters of the Torridge, Torrington is a good centre. Licences : For Salmon and migratory trout (including trout), £2 the season (March 18 to October 3:) ; 7s. 6d. per day; Trout, 75. Od. the season (March i to September 30), 2s. 6d. per week. Local inquiries must be made as to the waters available.
Golf, at Saunton {see p. 23). Instow Ferry or Bideford Bridge also bring the famous Westivard Ho ! Links within easy reach {see Bideford section).
Hotels. — See Introduction, p. xxii.
Market Days. — Fridays and Tuesdays.
Motor-'buses. — ^To llfracombe (via Braunton) ; Saunton and Croyde ; Bideford
^>— ' and Westward Ho ! (via Instow) ; Swimbridge and South Molton, etc.
Post OiRce.— General Post Office, Cross Street, between High Street and the Strand, and near St. Anne's Walk, 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. ; Sundays and Bank Holidays, 9 to 10.30 a.m. There are several sub-offices.
Bailway Stations. — ^The Southern Railway stations are Barnstaple Junction, on the south side of the river, and Barnstaple Town, on the north side, close to the principal thoroughfares. The former is the junction for trains from London (and everywhere) for the llfracombe branch line and the Bideford and Torrington branch line. The Town Station is on the llfracombe branch and is also the station for the L>Titon Railway.
The Great Western Railway station is at the east end of the town, with a through service of trains from Paddington, vid Bristol and Taunton. This station connects by a loop line with Barnstaple Junction (Southern Railway) and by this means conveys through passengers to llfracombe direct.
Barnstaple and Lynton Railway (19 miles), now part of the Southern Railway. The gauge of this useful little line is only i ft. ii| in. It was the first railway in England of this gauge for passenger service. So far, the only ones like it are the Welsh Highland Railway from Dinas to Tremadoc and the Festiniog line. The "Toy" railway, as it is called, passes through fine Barnstaple (6) j
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scenery. The intermediate stations are : Chelfham, Bratton, Blackmoor Gate, Parracombe, and Woody Bay. The Chelfham Viaduct is about 350 ft. long, and 70 ft. above the valley. The views from the line embrace some of the finest scenes in North Devon.
BARNSTAPLE, whilst ranking among the oldest boroughs in the kingdom, strikes the visitor as a progressive little town, and for the tourist who has but a few days in which to " do " North Devon there is no more convenient headquarters. Geographically, and in regard to roads and railway routes, it is centrally situated. Rail- ways run in five directions from three different stations. From the Great Western station there is a direct line to Taunton ; from the Southern Railway Junction the main line runs up to Exeter and down in the other direction to Bideford (for Clovelly) and Torrington ; and from the Southern Railway Town Station passengers usually book to Ilfracombe and Lynton. The railways issue excursion tickets to places of interest and the motor-'bus services not only supplement the railway but open up country rather off the beaten track, especially for walkers.
Of late years Barnstaple has become popular with all classes of summer visitors. There are several pretty public parks and pleasure grounds, the principal being Rock Park, bounded by a pleasant river walk.
Visitors can play bowls and lawn tennis, indulge in boating and take motor-coach trips to places of interest. Good angling can be obtained within easy distance, and the motor-'bus services keep golfers in close touch with the best links in North Devon. For indoor entertain- ment there is the cinema at the Theatre Royal, with occasional dramatic performances, and concerts and so on elsewhere.
The town has some good shops, and is a busy agricul- tural centre, besides possessing several important fac- tories for cabinet-making, lace-net manufacture, glove- making, pottery, milling, etc.
In recent years attempts have been made to revive
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the old-time shipbuilding industry which flourished at Barnstaple.
The majority of visitors approach the town from the Bridge, 700 ft. long, which spans the river Taw, and the first impression is a pleasant one. The town proper lies in a pretty valley, and the residential streets meander up the hillsides away from the business thoroughfares. On the right hand is the valley of the Taw ; on the left the river widens out until, at Instow, six miles below, it joins the Torridge, and, thus augmented, flows into the sea.
At the north end of the Bridge is an open space called — ■
The Square,
neatly laid out with lawns and flower-beds surrounding a fountain and the handsomely-proportioned Albert Memorial and Clock Tower. Close by is the North Devon Athenaeum, and adjoining it is the Taw Vale Parade, a favourite promenade which skirts the river as far as the Park ; as the South Walk it continues as a riverside promenade as far as the G.W.R. bridge over the Taw. Running parallel with the Parade is Litchdon Street, lead- ing to the Penrose Almshouses, the Old Barum Pottery, Trinity Church, and the Great Western Railway Station.
The Parish Church, dedicated to SS. Peter and Paul, is one of the oldest in North Devon, and not so many years ago was the only church in the town. Pilton, however, was not then included in the borough. Portions of the present fabric date from 1318 ; the church was then rebuilt, but re- cords earlier than this are vague. The curiosity of visitors is always aroused by the Twisted Steeple, much out of the perpendicular. This malformation is attri- buted by some to a severe storm in 1810, when the spire was struck by lightning. At one time there was a movement afoot, when the church was restored, to put the steeple straight, but Sir Gilbert Scott, who was consulted, said he would decline to have anything to do with the work if the steeple were touched. In 1910,
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however, it was found that the steeple was getting into a dangerous condition through the deterioration of the timbering, and after much anxious thought a thorough restoration was decided upon. The whole of the lead was stripped off — after careful photographic records had been taken, and each sheet measured so that it might all be accurately replaced — and the internal timbers were all examined and strengthened where necessary. A temporary workshop was erected in the churchyard and the lead melted, remade into sheets, cut to shape and eventually replaced on the tower, the spire now presenting exactly the same appearance as before it was touched. The lead is believed to have originally come from Combe Martin and is rich in silver, which would account for its particularly good colour. The restoration of the twisted steeple was looked upon by the inhabitants of Barnstaple as a townspeople's work, and Nonconformists joined in raising funds to defray the expense. According to Sir Lawrence Weaver, F.S.A., an authority on leaded spires, this is the finest existing lead broach spire.
In the Church itself are a number of interesting 17th-century monuments of Barnstaple worthies. There are also some good stained-glass windows. The Corporation pew — with a " state seat" for the mayor — will be seen in front of the pulpit, and there are the remains of a wall painting. In 1910 an old and beautiful chasuble, which appears by an inventory in theAthenaeum to have been used in the church three and a half centuries ago, was presented by Mrs. Peard.
St. Anne's Chapel.
In the churchyard of the Parish Church is an edifice small in size, but of great historic interest, and the cause ■of much archaeological speculation. In early years it was used as a chantry of St. Anne, and after the Dissolu- tion became by purchase the property of the Corpora- tion, who used it as a Grammar School until the new premises elsewhere referred to were erected.
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Accurate information concerning the Chapel is difficult to obtain. Some authorities believe it was the chapel of St. Sabinus, an early Irish missionary who came to preach Christianity and was wrecked at Woolacombe. Barnstaple's archives certainly show that a chapel to St. Sabinus once existed in the town, and where it could have stood, unless on this spot, no one can conjecture. The upper portion of the building is believed to date from 1456, but there is no doubt the lower portion is much older. An interesting reference to the former use of the chapel is made in Mr. Chanter's Memorials of St. Peter's Church. He says :
" In the latter part of the seventeenth century, concur- rently with its occupation as a school, the building was for some years used for a purpose more congenial with its original intent, as a place of worship for a body of French Protestants, who escaped here and settled in the town after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, 1685. A picturesque description of their arrival and reception here has been handed down. They left Rochelle in a small crowded vessel, in the height of the Protestant persecution. They were tossed about in tempes- tuous weather for a long time, and at length found themselves in Bideford Bay ; they sailed over the bar, up the Taw, and landed on the Quay at Barnstaple on a Sunday morning during divine service. In their miserable destitution they ranged themselves in the market place. The inhabitants, when they came out of church, flocked to see the poor refugees. An old gentleman — would his name had been recorded ! — took two of them home with him and recommended his fellow-townsmen to follow his example ; thus in a few minutes they were all distributed through the town."
St. Anne's Chapel was placed at the disposal of the refugees by the Corporation, and there for seventy-five years service was conducted in the French language, but the congregation dissolved in 1761, on the death of the last minister. Dr. Duncan. Samuel Pepys, the immortal diarist, married a daughter of one of the refugees.
Pilton Church,
dedicated to St. Mary the Virgin, is a building of great age and much interest. From the road the Church is
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almost hidden by the Almshouses at the top of the main street of Pilton, a place now within the administrative area of Barnstaple, but which some years ago was quite distinct and managed its own affairs. The site of the Church was originally that of a Priory founded by King Athelstan, and a list of the Priors of Pilton from 1200 to 1527 is in existence. Bishop Bronescombe dedicated Pilton Church in 1259, and the present building was probably erected anterior to 1320. It has been restored at various times and in 1914 much was done to improve and beautify the chancel. A remarkable feature of the interior is that many of the columns and even the pulpit and screen are out of the perpendicular. As a tablet above the south porch records, the Church did not go unmolested during the Civil War —
" The tower of this Parish being by force of arms pul'd down in ye late unhappy Civil wars, Anno Dom. 1646, was rebuilt 1696."
As to how the tower was demolished there is much controversy, some holding that it was, as the inscription hints, literally " pulled " down, others suggesting that it was bombarded until it fell. The oldest inscription, dated 1494, is that on a Chichester grave slab in the chancel not far from the more celebrated memorial of Sir Robert Chichester, who died in 1627, and his two wives. On the other side of the Church is the Renais- sance memorial to Sir John Chichester (1569). There are other elaborate monuments, mostly with Latin inscriptions. The carved oak canopy and cover over the font are unusual, and the cover itself is considered by many the most beautiful in the West. The screen is good but unlike most of those in Devon ; formerly there were figures in the panels, but it is said that someone, considering they required cleaning, did it to such purpose that the paintings afterwards faded away. On one of the bells is inscribed a curious doggerel —
" Recast by Thomas Taylor & Son, Who the best prize for Church-bells won At the Great Ex-hi-bi-ti-on In London, 1-8-5- and one."
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Extended from the pulpit is the iron arm for the preacher's hour-glass, and over it is a canopy or sounding board . Altogether this Church repays careful inspection .
Holy Trinity Church, a modern building, is in the eastern portion of the town. For internal decoration dark green and gold are used throughout, which colours, with some choice brass work, give a quiet harmony, rich-looking yet unpretentious.
The Grammar School.
One of the most important and most recent additions to Barnstaple's public buildings is the Grammar School, a County Secondary School which cost about ;^i 4,000, and is healthily situated at the Newport end of the town, overlooking the river Taw and Tawstock woods. Al- though not in the strict sense of the term a boarding- school, arrangements are made for scholars to be placed in hostels belonging to the Governors and in properly accredited houses. The title preserves a name associated with Barnstaple for over 350 years. For a long time the school was housed in the old chantry in the church- yard, and among the many distinguished men who were educated at Barnstaple Grammar School were Bishop Jewell, John Gay, the poet, and John Doddridge, Solici- tor-General to James I. Barnstaple is also justly proud of its Science and Art School, whose scholars have won many successes, the object of its governors being to teach the importance of industrial art.
Queen Anne's Walk,
a piazza-like structure in the Strand, opposite the bottom of Cross Street, arouses interest. There is a covered way, 67 ft. long by 12 ft. broad, having a series of stone columns which support the roof, and a parapet on which is a full-length statue of Queen Anne, in whose reign the structure was rebuilt. It served at the time as a walk or exchange for the merchants of Barnstaple. The Quay then extending to this part, the Walk was
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doubtless of great convenience. The statue is dated 1708 and was the gift of Robt. Rolle of Stevenstone. The walk was last restored by the Corporation in 1859 under the supervision of Mr. R. D. Gould. The heraldic designs, with which it is profusely ornamented, are said to be the armorial bearings of those who contributed to its re-erection in 1713. Immediately under the statue of Queen Anne is a small " table " of stone standing on a pillar or column. This is the " Tomb " or " Tome " stone which formerly stood on the quay, and on which merchants are said to have paid their accounts. From the names of the mayor, ex-mayor, and alderman carved on the rim [John Delbridg(e), Richard Fer(r)is, and Nicholas Delbridg(e)] it is estimated that it dates from
1633-
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a fine building in the Square, near the Bridge, was presented to Barnstaple for the encouragement of art, literature and science, by Mr. W. F. Rock, who also gave the town a park. Among its treasures is a valuable collection of manuscripts, and the endowment by Mr. Rock enables frequent additions to be made. The library of over twenty thousand volumes is also aug- mented continually. There is a fine collection of shells, fossils, and minerals. Visitors are welcomed. Future chroniclers will have cause to be grateful to the late Mr. Wainwright, the curator, for the valuable translations he made of the town's old manuscripts. The Doddridge Library, chiefly consisting of theological works left by John Doddridge in 1664 for the benefit of the town, and formerly kept in the vestry of the Parish Church, is now preserved at the Athenaeum. The well-stocked reading- room is much used.
The Market. One of the sights of Barnstaple is the Pannier Market on market day — Friday. It is a huge covered building occupying a space of about 45,000 square feet, being
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no ft. wide by 445 ft. in length, and connecting High Street with Boutport Street. Farmers and their wives bring in their produce, which is sold from low stalls at which the vendors sit. To the Londoner, especially, the scene is a remarkable one. A great deal of business is done here weekly, and dealers buy up large supplies for the London and Midland markets. Adjoining is Butchers' Row, where there are some twenty to thirty butchers' shops, each with a frontage of about eleven feet, and " all in a row." Barnstaple is one of the few towns where the practice of placing butchers' shops together, as far as possible, still obtains.
In Litchdon Street are the interesting old Almshouses founded by John Penrose in 1627. The quaint colon- nade, with its granite pillars, is a remarkable feature.
The Royal Barum Ware. The souvenir-hunter will enjoy a visit to one of the potteries, which are among the most cherished of Barn- staple's industrial possessions, and have come down, naturally much improved, from remote centuries. In Litchdon Street is the pottery belonging to Messrs. C. H. Brannam, Ltd., and attached to it are beautiful show- rooms. Visitors who so desire are allowed to watch the process of manufacture. This Barum ware was patron- ized by Queen Victoria, and other royal personages have made purchases. The productions of this pottery are noteworthy for the wealth of colour, the rich glaze, and the quaintness of pattern of the ornamental pieces.
Rock Park.
Originally marsh land, this is now a beautiful park, with a frontage on the river bank of about a third of a mile. Adjoining is the Sports Ground, which covers another ten acres. The park is a pleasant resort for visitors and residents, and in the summer months band concerts are given. The Park gives access to two pleasant rambles, one along the river bank, the other through the romantically-named Lovers' Grove, which has lost most of its trees.
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Barnstaple Bridge.
It is on record that Daniel Defoe described Barnstaple Bridge as " more noble " than that at Bideford, but •visitors generally give pride of place to Bideford Bridge, for the latter has an added charm from the more exten- sive view to be obtained from it. Still, the Long Bridge (as it is known, probably to distinguish it from the shorter Pilton Bridge over the Yeo, which has also a romantic story connected with its original construction), with its sixteen arches, is no mean structure, and, like that of Bideford, has some legendary lore. The story runs that once Tom Faggus, who plays so notable a part in the story of Lorna Doone, was in extremity on Barn- staple Bridge, both ends being blockaded by parties in pursuit. At a word, however, the highwayman's strawberry mare cleared the parapet, and the twain swam safely away before the eyes of their astonished assailants. Like the sister bridge at Bideford, authentic information is not forthcoming as to the date of its ■construction. Leland says : " Some say that one of the Tracys made the right grete and sumeptus bridge ■of stone having sixteen high arches of Berstaple." Camden, in his Britannia, calls it : "A stately bridge built by Stamford, a citizen of London." Several his- torians refer to its existence in the time of Henry de Tracy, and he died in 1274.
An interesting account in Barnstaple Records includes the following :
" This Bridge at the beginning of the sixteenth century had thirteen arches only, and was then described in a contem- poraneous document as much dilapidated ; but a few years subsequently, at Leland's visit, it was described as having sixteen arches, the last two or three of which were probably of wood, as in 1589 Philip Wyot records the north piles being rebuilt on arches called maiden arches. The Bridge was originally very narrow, as was usual in those days, and only suited to foot passengers and to the pack-horse traffic then in use, with deep recesses over the cutwater or chevron of each pile. These piles projected very considerably — so much so
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that when the carriage-way was widened in 1 796 they served as the only abutments for the supplementary arches, about four feet wide on each side, and at the more modern extension in 1832 they were still found sufficient to support the addi- tional width and weight. In some parts at least the founda- tion appears to have been on wooden piles, but they are all strengthened or supported externally by piling, which may be seen when the water is low. The original piles still remain, though now recased throughout, and the original pointed inner arches are altogether intact. Some of the arches have been widened at various periods, thus causing some irregu- larities of appearance, and there were formerly tablets in the parapets recording the dates of the various alterations, but they were hidden from view when the stone parapets and the character of the Bridge were destroyed by the process of widening and the substitution of iron railings."
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in High Street, w^as erected in 1826. The Council Chamber is in the same building, the Mayor's Parlour being underneath. Several old flintlocks, halberds and staves, the latter dated 1826, may be seen on the principal stairway, and there are also some thirty portraits of members of the Corporation and others in 1730, painted by Thos. Hudson, who is said to have been assisted by his illustrious pupil. Sir Joshua Reynolds. A recent addition to this fine collection is a paint- ing of " F.C.G.," the famous caricaturist, the work of his son, given to the Corporation at the time Sir F. Carruthers Gould was made a freeman of his native town of Barnstaple.
HISTORICAL NOTE.
Though Barnstaple has the appearance of a modern well-to-do town, its history can be traced so far back that it is lost in the obscurity of the pre-Norman period. Probably Barum was the Artavia of the Romans. Le- land and other authorities say the name was Abertaw, signifying " At the mouth of the Taw." The sufl&x " staple " is indicative of the markets which have been held here from time immemorial. Records show that
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Barnstaple was an important Saxon stronghold ; it appeared in the list of Wessex boroughs in 900, and once possessed its own mint. Athelstan is reported to have repaired its walls about 938. The town claims to have received from Athelstan a charter dated 928, but this cannot now be proved. " Wise Men " of Barum sat at the Saxon Witenagemote. Barnstaple's first Norman Lord was Judhel of Totnes, son and heir of the Earl of Britanny, who received the barony from William the Conqueror, and who added to the strength of the walls. After a few years, in the reign of Henry H, Barnstaple was formally incorporated, and from the time of Edward I its representatives sat in Parliament. Since the re- distribution in 1885 the town has given its name to a county division. To instance the antiquity of Barn- staple's woollen manufactured goods, the borough records show a petition to Edward H in 1308 to have a certain duty imposed by Edward I removed.
As a maritime port Barnstaple had been steadily grow- ing, and in 1346 could send ships with the English fleet to the siege of Calais. Ten years later, Lord Audley, who held the manor, greatly distinguished himself at the battle of Poictiers. Nearly three hundred years having elapsed since the grant of Henry II, this pushful com- munity obtained from Henry VI, in the year 1444, another important charter. Fifty years later we find " The Great Reformer," Henry VIII, exercising his con- scientious scruples and diverting into the capacious royal pockets the incomes of the religious houses. Dur- ing this reign energetic Barnstaple put in another claim for a charter, which was granted.
In 1588 the town promptly responded to the national call, and sent five ships against the Spanish Armada, as was tersely recorded by the then Town Clerk, " Five ships went over the bar to join Sir F. D. at Plymo." The resources of the port were such that, after the Spanish defeat, privateers were fitted out, and played sad havoc with Spanish shipping. For the expedition to Cadiz in 1596 Barnstaple ships were again requisi-
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tioned. Queen Elizabeth increased by two more charters the privileges of the town. The foreign trade of the port was now considerable, notably in wine and wood. Vari- ous manufactories flourished, particularly woollen indus- tries, and the manufacture of Bayes (baize) The trade in woollen fabrics had been introduced by the Flemish. James I, to show his good will, followed the example of Elizabeth, and gave two more charters to the borough, dated respectively 1610 and 161 1. The former gave the borough the privilege of appointing a High Steward, which office has been maintained from 1637, when the first appointment was made, to the present time.
At the outbreak of the Civil War in 1642, the town promptly took sides with the Parliament, and in the course of the struggle changed hands no fewer than four times. About December, 1642, hearing that a small Royalist army had reached Torrington, the men of Barn- staple determined to attack them rather than to await attack. The newsmongers of those days were as much addicted to garbling war news as are some of their kind to-day. The Royalist papers claimed a victory, but significantly added that their army had decided to leave the town. The Roundheads, however, reported that they " drove out 500 Royalist troops from Torrington, slew 10 of them, took 40 prisoners and 200 arms, and so freed that part of the country also from these rebellious plundering pilferers." The battle of Sourton Dowti soon followed, where the Royalists were defeated ; but in May, 1643, Sir Bevill Grenville inflicted a great defeat on the Parliamentarians at the battle of Stratton, cap- turing sixteen pieces of ordnance, four thousand arms, a hundred barrels of gunpowder, ^3,000 in money, besides a large number of prisoners, including Major-General Chudleigh, builder of the Forts at Bideford. Bideford was soon menaced by the Royalists, and Barnstaple sent supplies to enable the town to hold out against " ye seidge of Coll. Digby." They succumbed, however, and the royal standard was soon hoisted on Appledore Fort. Cut off on all sides, Barnstaple surrendered on Septem-
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ber 2, 1643, and was occupied by the King's forces until June, 1644, when the Barumites revolted, overpowered the Royalists, and came again to their own. Embold- ened by success, they endeavoured to restore Appledore Fort to the Parliament, but had to abandon the siege on account of assistance arriving from Exeter for the Royalists. In September of the same year General Goring marched against Barnstaple, and the King was once more supreme in the town. During this period, the King's forces being shattered in the rest of the country, the Prince of Wales, afterwards Charles II, then a lad of fifteen, was sent to Barnstaple for security. The site of the house in High Street at which he stayed is now occupied by the local of&ces of the Prudential Assurance Company. In July, 1645, he retired for further safety to Cornwall.
The following autumn saw a decided movement by Parliament. Both Fairfax and the great Oliver himself reached Devon. The Royalist forces, " utterly dis- organized and mutinous, and hated by the people for their incredible profaneness and unmerciful plundering," gave way before the excellent generalship of Fairfax. A detachment left the main Parliamentary forces and laid siege to Barnstaple in April, 1646. After five weeks the town surrendered, and, the rest of the country being already occupied by Cromwell, the Royal cause received for the time its quietus.
At a later period Charles II helped the town with another charter, and she then settled down during the next century to recuperate, and to develop her resources both as a port and a manufacturing town.
Kean is said to have acted once in Barnstaple ; it is believed that Shakespeare visited the town in 1605.
John Gay, author of The Beggars' Opera, was born in Joy Street in 1685. His opera, stage-managed at Drury Lane by Rich, was so successful that it was said to have " made Rich gay and Gay rich." It has in recent years been revived with enormous success in London. Gay's poems were published by admiring subscribers in 1720,
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but the proceeds were lost in the South Sea vortex. At an auction sale, his arm-chair was put up and sold, and the purchaser was lucky enough to find, hidden in the- seat, a secret drawer containing genuine documents in Gay's handwriting and one or two short poems, which have since been printed. The chair is now in the pos- session of Mr. Sydney Harper, of 27 High Street, who has also a very interesting collection of Devonshire books and pictures of old Barnstaple.
As befitting a town of such antiquity and importance, Barnstaple possesses some valuable civic plate and regalia, which are publicly displayed at the time of the- annual Fair. Some of the pieces date from 1425. A punch-bowl dated 1745 is not only curious in form, being indented at the rim to hang glasses round, but has- a curious history. An inscription records that it was the gift of Thomas Benson, and the accompanying ladle is inscribed, " He that gave the bowl gave the ladle." Benson, who was M.P. for the borough in his time, suffered the terrible sentence of outlawry and had his property confiscated. He is stated to have contracted to carry convicts oversea, but landed them at Lundy, which he had leased, and there employed them in smug- gling. A silver gilt flagon and two silver gilt goblets resembling church chalices are notable features of the- coUection. A recently-acquired treasure is a Corona- tion Mayor's chain of beautiful design, with a com- munity badge consisting of the borough arms and the three seals of the town, decorated with the Barnstaple ships of the Armada.
The Great Fair, held at Barnstaple near the end of September, has been called " The Saturnalia of North- Devon." It is always opened by the Mayor, who invites the townspeople to a feast of spiced ale, toast and cheese. This is followed by a full-dress parade of the municipal officials, and the Fair begins, to last for three days. The- Fair has latterly been shorn of many of its old-time characteristics, but the " pleasure fair " is as popular as- ever, and in one day attracts 20,000 visitors to the town.
WALKS AND EXCURSIONS FROM BARNSTAPLE.
THE ever-extending road motor services have greatly added to the advantages of Barnstaple as a centre. The regular services from Ilfracombe to Clovelly, Bideford, Westward Ho ! and South Molton all pass through the town, and there are a number of locally-owned motor and horse-drawn vehicles. There is also a regular service between Barnstaple and Croyde, which takes in Braunton and Saunton, considerably im- proving the accessibility of the latter place, the station at Braunton being some three miles from the sands. The 'bus, however, runs direct to Saunton, and is very convenient both for the golf links and the sands.
There are numerous pretty walks around Barnstaple, one of the best being the popular riverside walk —
TO ANCHOR WOOD,
though the wood exists in name only, the trees having been all cut down. From Barnstaple Bridge take the pathway down the left bank of the river, entered by a swing gate on the railway ; continue ahead between the cabinet works buildings and then between palings beside the shipyard (beware of crossings over railway sidings) to the river bank. Should the tide be up, the view is beautiful, extending to Fremington Point on the one hand and to Heanton Court on the other. There are seats at intervals. After about half a mile the path runs under a low railway arch, on the other side of which is the Riiie Range. At the entrance to what was the wood, and through which there is still a public path, is the famous Dripping Well, which has been fenced off and rescued from threatened oblivion. Local tradition
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credits the water with medicinal virtues, and it was at one time beUeved that the blind would recover sight after bathing their eyes at the well. The new road to Bideford is reached at the top of Bickington village, a little over a mile from Barnstaple, or by keeping to the upper path and turning up through the fields to a lane the walk can be shortened. Return by road. Total distance, about three miles.
TO TAWSTOCK.
Seven Brethren Bank is the name given to the river bank opposite the Rock Park up the river. Access is gained through the wicket gate on the Bridge, opposite the entrance to the walk previously described.
By taking the Lake road at the bottom of Sticklepath Hill, just beyond the Junction Railway Station, instead of going by the river bank, there is a pretty walk to Tawstock, a village about two and a half miles from Barnstaple. Here is beautiful Tawstock Court, long the seat of the Wrey family. The visitor should spare time to see the beautiful little St. Peter's Church, which contains costly tombs erected in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to the Earls of Bath. Returning from the Church, the interesting old gates of Tawstock Court will be seen on the right. The quaint and pictur- esque village school in the hollow below the village will also repay a visit.
TO BISHOPS TAWTON AND CODDON HILL.
Distance. — To Bishops Tawton, 2J mUes by road. The railway does not serve.
This is a slightly longer walk, or the cycle may be used with advantage, but if the visitor explores Coddon Hill he should leave his machine in the village.
Bishops Tawton is on the Exeter road, and boasts two churches, one built by the Chichester family at Herner, some little distance to the south, and the Parish Church (St. John the Baptist) in the centre of the village, near the railway. This Church has some good stained-glass windows and two beautiful white marble tablets, the workmanship in the drapery of the figure being exquisite.
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Close to the Church are the remains of the Bishop's Palace, now a farmhouse. The two small towers are noteworthy. The village is close to the railway line and midway between Barnstaple and Chapelton stations. On the opposite side of the river (cross by New Bridge, one and a quarter miles upstream) is Tawstock Court. Coddon Hill (630 ft.), the highest point in this district, is a furze-covered slope at the back of the village ; the view from the top well repays a climb, for great stretches of Dartmoor and Exmoor can be seen, and Lundy Island is in the distance. At the summit is a mound upon which beacon fires were formerly lit. A broad path leads up»the face of the hill from the roadway, at a point a short distance beyond the last houses in Bishops Tawton and where the road forks. The road skirting the hillside leads to Chittlehampton.
TO CHITTLEHAMPTON.
Distance. — 2} miles eastward from Umberleigh station, an uphill walk, parts of the road being bad for cycling. lo miles by road from Barnstaple through Bishops Tawton — a good road.
Post Office, next the Bell Inn, faces the open square in front of the Church.
In this land of fine churches comparisons are invidious. Atherington, Swimbridge and Stoke have their screens, but the tower of Chittlehampton is unsurpassed. With the Church, it has between eighty and ninety pinnacles. There are three churches, not far from each other, the respective merits of which gave rise to a proverbial Devon folk saying. It is said that one architect de- signed the three edifices, but in the absence of evidence in black and white, legends are sometimes distorted. Some now say that the three churches were built by an architect and his two pupils, and that the pupils excelled the teacher. A current saying, of which there are several variants, is —
" Bishop's Nympton for length. South Molton for strength, Chittlehampton for beauty."
The Church is dedicated to St. Hieritha, " foundress of this church," as the inscription on an empty niche on the left of the chancel explains. The carved ceilings of
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the Rolle and Giffard aisles — on the right and left of the chancel respectively — are fine. Underneath the matting by the pulpit are some good brasses to the Cobleigh family, and there are many memorials to the Giffards and one or two to the RoUes. The Church was carefully restored by the munificence of the Bishop of Crediton.
TO UMBERLEIGH.
Distance. — ^About lo miles by rail or road.
This is a pretty little village, just a cluster of houses amid lovely scener}', through which the Taw gushes with alternate courses of calm and weir water. By the station is a bridge, commanding a charming peep of the river, but something of the picturesqueness of this corner has gone since the old bridge was replaced by one more suited to modern traffic, which connects the two parishes of Chittlehampton and Atherington. The great attrac- tion here is the fishing. Full particulars can be obtained at the Rising Sun. The inns and cottages provide good quarters for anglers.
TO ATHERINGTON.
Route. — From Umberleigh station, i mile westward, up a very steep hill. Cyclists will find the road from the station not only too steep to ride, but often in bad condition. By road from Barnstaple 7J miles.
The road from Barnstaple through Bishops Tawton, and via New Bridge and Chapelton station, is usually good, but hilly in places. (At the cross-roads, one and a half miles south of Chapelton, the left leads to Umber- leigh, straight forward for Atherington.)
The Church is dedicated to St. Mary, and according to Risdon, the historian, was founded by Athelstan and " endowed with two hides of land." The splendid screen retains its loft, the only instance of the kind in Devon. Several authorities have pronounced this the finest screen in the county. It is small, however, and a visit to Swimbridge and Stoke may make admirers of the Atherington screen waver in their faith. Still, the loft is absolutely unique. Harry Hems, of Exeter, wrote : " This loft appears to have been made originally for another building, as it does not fit its present position
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properly." Visitors are allowed to enter the rood loft if they so desire. The ascent of the tower is not recom- mended to any but robust climbers. In the north aisle of the chancel are some nameless monuments ; one fine altar tomb has brasses of a knight between two ladies with a number of children with shields of arms, supposed to represent Sir John Basset and his two wives. Two other tombs are said to be of Sir Ralph Willington and wife, while the damaged stone figure of a knight at the other end of the Church probably represents the last of the Champernounes who held the estate. It is usually said that some of these tombs and some other fittings of the Church came from the chapel at Umberleigh, pulled down over a century ago.
The manor of Umberleigh is connected with John of Gaunt in a well-known Devonshire folk rhyme : —
" I John of Gaunt Do give and grant To thee and thine From me and mine The manor and fee Of Umberleigh. And in token of my truth Do seal it with my tooth ! "
TO HIGH BICKINGTON.
Distance. — 2 miles south of Atherington, on the same main road from Barnstaple, from which it is about 9J miles distant.
This Church is also reported to have been erected by King Athelstan and endowed by him as follows :
" Iche Athelstane, King, Grome of this home, geve and graunt to the preist of this church, one Yoke of mye Land, frelith to holde, Wood in my holt (Saxon term for a wood). House to buyld, bitt grass for all hys beasts, fuel for hys Hearth, pannage for hys Soweand piggs, world without End."
TO SWIMBRIDGE.
Access. — 4 miles from Barnstaple by raU (Great V\estem). Also bymotor-'bus
from Barnstaple. Post and Telegraph Office. — In the village.
The road, good either for cycling or walldng, passes
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Parson Jack Russell, of fox-hunting fame, was vicar of Swimbridge for forty-eight years, and was buried in the churchyard, where his tomb may be seen. Russell's Life finds a place in most sporting libraries. The Church is most interesting (the latch of the door is very stiff and hea\y, the ring which raises it requiring a strong wrist or both hands), and contains one of the finest of Devon- shire screens. It extends the whole width of the Church and is of beautiful design. The assigned date is 1420. It has been suggested that the two square empty spaces in the screen were intended for pictures. Another treasure is the finely-carved oak case of the font, with a tall cover of the usual conical shape, but unusual orna- mental carving, the whole surmounted by a canopy of choice design and workmanship. The roof of the nave is likewise a study, and if the quaint bosses in the roof above the organ are examined, the observer will detect the figure of St. Dunstan seizing the devil by the nose with a pair of pincers. The hagioscope, or "squint," between the aisle containing the organ and the altar, is interesting. Among a number of memorials is a curious one, dated 1658, referring to John Rosier, " one of the attorneys of the Court of Common Bench," and there is a painting (near organ) on copper of a member of the Cutcliffe family. The stone pulpit with figures of Apostles is also worth noting.
The short spire is of the " twisted " variety, like St. Peter's, Barnstaple, and St. Brannock's, Braunton.
The walk from Swimbridge to Bishops Tawton, four miles, is through pretty, narrow lanes, and is well worth the trouble of finding the right road, which starts at the back of the tannery. This is not, however, a road to be attempted by the cyclist.
TO BRAUNTON.
Access. — 6 miles, by road or rail, from Barnstaple (the Ilfracombe branch line closely follows the road). Also reached by motor-'bus from Barnstaple. The road is good and level for cycling.
Banks. — Lloyds and National Provincial.
Golf. — At Saunton : see p. 23.
Places of Worship. — St. Brannock's, Wesleyan, Congregational, Brethren.
Post OfTice. — 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. ; Smidays and Bank Holidays, 9 to 10.30 a.m.
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Most of the places of note inland from Barnstaple having been explored, we now go seaward. Braunton is on one road to Ilfracombe, and as the " going " is per- fectly level, the journey thither is a favourite cycle run. On the way are passed Heanton Punchardon, where the postman-poet Capern lies buried, and Wrafton. The castle-like building on the left is Heanton Court (now a farmhouse), which figures prominently in Blackmore's romance. The Maid of Sker.
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is between a village and a township, aspiring to some- thing greater than the former but lacking the dignity of the latter. A good water supply and electric light have given an impetus to building here, and Braunton is a growing place. The new road between the main street and railway is an improvement and the entrance to the town from Saunton has also been widened. Braunton dates from the fourth century. St. Brannock arrived on a preaching tour about a.d. 300. The Church is named after him, and a legend is told that he tried to build the Church in various places, but the stones and materials were miraculously removed, until at last the saint dreamed that he was to build the Church on the spot where he should first find a sow and a litter of pigs. In support of this legend will be found represented on one of the bosses of the roof (over north door) a sow and her litter. A similar story is related in connection with the Church of Newton St. Cyres, near Exeter, and other churches. Braunton Church has been described by an old writer as " the fayrest church in these parts of one span," and by another as " the strangest collection of odds and ends to be found in the county." There is much truth in both assertions. The oak seats are the pride of the Church, the ends being most elaborately carved and including St. Brannock himself. Among the memorials is a palimpsest brass commemorating Lady Elizabeth Bourchier, on the back of which is part of a figure of a knight. The old Portuguese Chest is inter-
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esting, and many other things are worth noting, including a stone at the foot of the wall to the right of the south door showing the date 1055. There is a dwarf tower surmounted by a short leaden spire. Whether this spire is really twisted from the vertical one hesitates to say. On the right-hand side of the south porch is an old tablet with a date that looks wonderfully like iioo, but close inspection seems to resolve it into 1-9 1, the second figure too mutilated to read.
TO SAUNTON SANDS.
Access. — Braunton Railway Station is zj miles distant. Vehicles ply between the two places. Also reached by motor-'bus from Barnstaple, and by motor coach from llfracombe.
Golf. — Saunton Golf Club. Sandy course of 18 holes. Entrance fee : gentlemen £5 5s., ladies £2 2S. ; subscription, gentlemen, £3 3s., ladies £2 2S. Visitors : gentlemen 5s. day, 25s. week, £3 month ; ladies 3s. 6d. day, 17s. 6d. week, £2 month.
Hotel. — Saunton Sands ; several boarding houses.
Saunton Sands are a very popular summer resort. The sands are most extensive, and skirt the Braunton Burrows, where there are excellent golf links, a very sporting course of i8 holes, among sand hills. There is a good club house.
It is a fine walk along the sands to Braunton Lighthouse. In addition to the interest always attaching to a light- house, there is the reward of a charming view. On the left in the far distance can be seen busy Barnstaple, and flowing thence the wide river Taw ; that is to say, wide if the tide be high, but narrow and showing innumerable sandbanks at low water. Close at hand, but on the opposite side of the river, is pretty Instow, making a pretence of maritime importance with its substantial little quay. This is at the mouth of the Torridge, with Appledore on the bank opposite.
The lighthouse shows (low) a fixed white light from half-flood to half-ebb tide and a fixed red light when there is less than 15 ft. of water over the bar ; by day a red ball is hoisted at same state of tide. The high light, visible 14 miles, occults once every 30 seconds. To the north-west is an iron skeleton tower showing an occulting light having red and white sectors.
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For returning from the lighthouse, the path leads back to Braunton or to Wrafton railway station — the latter is actually nearer (4 miles).
TO CROYDE BAY.
Motor-'bus from Barnstaple.
Railway Station. — Braunton, 5 miles distant.
This is really a continuation of the walk or drive from Saunton, by the new coast road. From it beautiful marine views are obtainable. The village is small, but the situation is delightful, up a sheltered combe with a stream running down one side of the road. Croyde Bay is a little further along the coast where a new settlement seems likely to spring up. A mile inland is Georgeham Church, rebuilt in 1876.
TO BRATTON FLEMING.
Access from Barnstaple. — By road (8 miles) or by the Lj-nton and Barnstaple Railway.
A popular motor route to Lynton is via Bratton Fleming, a village with a population of some 500. Accommoda- tion here is much sought after on account of the healthy situation of the place, about 900 ft. above sea-level. By rail it is easy to get to Barnstaple or Lynton. Good walkers will find it a first-class centre for exploring the western side of Exmoor.
TO PARRACOMBE.
Distance from Barnstaple.— About 12 miles, by the Lynton~'and Barnstaple Railway.
Parracombe is an interesting village with a population of between 300 and 400. There are two parish churches. The old one at the top of the hill has an old screen, similar to that across the nave at Atherington, with a curious post-Reformation tympanum. The new Church was consecrated in 1878. There is in existence a list of rectors from 1308.
ILFRACOMBE.
Banks.— Barclays, Lloyds, Midland, National Provincial, all in High Street.
Boating. — ^The charges for sailing boats are 5s. per hour for five persons, each one above this number is. ; for rowing boats 3$. per hour for four persons, for each extra one u. Tolls must be paid on landing or embarking on the piers and certain beaches. Motor-boats may also be hired.
Bowk. — ^There are good greens, belonging to the local club, in Highfield Road. Public Green at the Victoria Pleasure Grounds.
Early Closing Day.— Thursday.
Fishing. — For variety of fishing. North Devon can hardly be excelled. Sea- fishing, for bass and smaller fry, is followed by many visitors. Good catches are obtainable not far from the shore, off Hillsborough. The fishermen usually charge 3s. an hour to take out their boat with hooks and bait. Sixpence to is. for each' person over four. Another favourite place is the other side of Hillsborough, in Hele Bay. An obliging boatman will indicate the best grounds. Fishing from the pier frequently results in good sport. Conger fishing, too, is exciting. Trout fishing can be had in the town reservoirs. For tickets apply at Town Hall. For particulars of freshwater fishing, under control of the Taw and Torridge Conservators, see p. I Barnstaple Section.
Golf. — Ilfracombe Golf Club. Eighteen holes, near cliffs beyond Hele (frequent service of motor-'buses). Green fees: gentlemen, 3s. 6d. per day, 15s. per week, 25s. fortnight, 40s. month ; ladies, 2S. 6d. day, 10$. week, 17s. 6d. fortnight, 25s. month. Simday play. Membership : — Entrance Fee : — Ladies, jf2. 2S. ; Gentlemen, £3 3s. .Annual Subscriptions (Full Mem- bers) : — Ladies, £1 us. 6d., Gentlemen, £3 3s. , Countn.- members, £1 us. dd. A country member is one who lives outside a radius of 10 miles from Ilfra- combe. if he resides within the radius for more than three months, he quali- fies ipso facto for full membership.
At the Victoria Pleasure Grounds is a putting green (18 holes), including use of club and ball, 6d. ; 9 holes, ^d. ; there is another at Larkstone, at the foot of Hillsborough, and one in the grounds of the Ilfracombe Hotel. See also under Lee Bay, p. 17; and W'oolacombe, p. 21.)
Hotels and Boarding Houses. See Introduction, p. xxii.
Motor-'Buses. — To Lviiton, Combe Martin, Lee Bay, W'oolacombe, Braunton, Barnstaple, South Molton, Bideford, Westward Ho !, etc.
Places of Worship, with hours of Sunday services (some of these may vary at different seasons) :
Holy Trinity (Parish Church) : 8.30, 10, U.15, 3.30, and 6.30.
St. Philip and St. James, near Cap- stone : 10, II, 3.30, and 6.30.
St. Peter's, Highfield Road : 8, 11, and 6.30.
Christ Church, Free Church of Eng-
Wesleyan, Wilder Road : 11 and 6.30. United Methodist, the Hall, Oxford
Grove : 11 and 6.30. Brethren, Assembly Hall, High Street :
11 and 6.30. Roman Catholic, Runnacleave Road :
8, 9-30 (in summer only), 10.30 and
land, Portland Street : 11 and 6.30. j 6.30. Congregational, High Street : 11 and Salvation Army, Brookfield Place:
6.30. I II, 3, and 6.30.
Baptist, High Street : 11 and 6.30. !
Population. — During the season (June to October) a census would show some- times over 30,000 persons. Out of season the population is about 12,000.
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Post Office. — The head office is in High Street (8 a.m. to 7 p.m. ; Sundays and Bank Holidays, 9 to 10.30 a.m.) ; and there are sub-offices at Chamber- combe, Church Street, Portland Street, and St. James' Place, near the Capstone.
Railway Station, a mile from the Capstone, high on a hill overlooking the town, Motor 'buses meet trains to take passengers to main parts of the town for IS., jmd other conveyances from and to are to be had in abundance.
Situation. — Ilfracombe is 12 miles by road from Barnstaple, 17 miles by road from Lynton, 52 miles from Exeter, and 220 miles by rail from London.
Steamers. — Daily trips by well-appointed steamers to most places up and down the coast, the most popular trips being to Clovelly and to Lynmouth.
Tennis.— Courts at Ilfracombe Hotel. Tournaments are held in the season. There are also grass courts at Bicclescombe Park and grass and hard courts at Larkstone, below Hillsborough.
Water Supply. — ^The water is obtained direct from Exmoor. An analysis made by the Clinical Research Association states : " This is a water of great purity, and from a chemical point of view admirably suitable for drinking purposes."
ILFRACOMBE lays justifiable claim to being the premier watering-place of North Devon. For variety of scenery, magnificent cliffs, seascapes, pictur- esque walks, and marine and motor excursions, it has few rivals in the kingdom. A progressive Council has provided a capital water supply and a first-rate drainage system. Next to its scenery, Ilfracombe's greatest charm is its mild and equable climate ; its advantages as a winter resort deserve to be better known. Charles Kingsley was not given to overpraise, and he spoke of the climate of Ilfracombe as heavenly, with " its rich, soft, sham winter."
Climate.
Ilfracombe prides itself on the statement of Mr. Symonds, F.R.S., that in endeavouring to ascertain the mildest places in England during the winter months, chiefly as indicated by the mean minimum temperatures, he found the stations ranged themselves in the following order : Guernsey, Ilfracombe, Falmouth, Ventnor, Teignmouth, Weymouth, Llandudno and Babbacombe. The smallness of the daily range of temperature was an important factor in the determination of the climatic conditions of any place, and giving weight to this con- sideration as well as to the average degree of cold ex- perienced, the following order was obtained : Ilfra- combe, Guernsey, Falmouth, Ventnor, Llandudno, Wey- mouth, Teignmouth and Babbacombe.
Ilfracombe
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[Dundee.
CAPSTONE HILL.
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CAPSTONE PARADE AND WILDERSMOUTH.
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" The result of observations extending now over a period of about twenty years is to confirm in every particular all previous observers who, in discussing the comparative climatology of England, assign to Ilfra- combe the mildest climate which is to be found within the United Kingdom."
It is not surprising that Ilfracombe has steadily grown in favour as a winter resort. It is less relaxing than South Devon. If the town can be said to face any particular point of the compass, it looks to the north — a great advantage during the summer. The Victoria Pavilion has a southerly aspect, and is sheltered from north winds by the Capstone Hill, over 150 ft. high.
The average death-rate for several years past (exclud- ing non-residents) has been about ii-o.
Amusements.
No town in North Devon is so well provided with amusements and opportunities for social enjoyment as Ilfracombe. Some of the outdoor sports are indicated in the introductory chapter, but it may be briefly stated here that there are exceptional opportunities for fishing, boating, cricket, golf, tennis. Badminton, swimming, sailing and bowls, the last-named being a game which finds increasing favour with those to whom more arduous pastimes are denied. During the season there are indoor amusements galore. Concerts and theatrical perform- ances are given by good travelling companies.
The Alexandra Hall, near the Town Hall, is a fine con- cert room and dance-hall, in which theatrical perform- ances also are given during the season ; opposite the Capstone is the Gaiety Concert Hall ; the Runnacleave Theatre adjoins the Runnacleave Hotel ; there is the Scala Cinema near the Post Office ; the Empire Cinema in Northfield Road ; the Palace Cinema in High Street, and the Victoria Pavilion, a striking glass structure at the foot of the Capstone Hill. There are also frequent outdoor amusements on the Pier and in an open space below the Arcade.
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The Victoria Pavilion (of glass), was erected at a cost of /6,ooo to commemorate the Jubilee of Queen Victoria. The interior is ornamented with flowering shrubs and climbing plants, and on a wet day visitors repair there with their books, or to listen to the frequent concerts. So useful and so popular has the Pavilion proved, that the Council recently decided to add accommodation for a further 800 people.
The gardens in front of the Pavilion have a Bowling Green, and a Putting Green, both open to the public at a small charge.
Bathing.
As far back as 181 1 we read : " The town is frequented in summer as a bathing-place " (with a packet to Swan- sea twice a week), and in 1822 : " Ilfracombe has of late years been much frequented as a bathing-place, and there are warm baths for the accommodation of invalids.' ' The following are the chief resorts :
1. The Tunnels (enclosed pools ; mixed bathing). This is a passage cut through the solid cliff to give access to the beach below the Tors. The entrance is in Wilder Road, at west end of Runnacleave Road. By building up walls to connect various rocks, two good pools have been made. The charge is 6d. for a machine, including all essentials [admission fee for non-bathers id.). An arm of the cliff shelters each bath from the other. In these large pools the safest of bathing can be had.
2. Rapparee Cove. A good beach at the end of the Harbour, free from rocks. Mixed bathing is also allowed here.
3. Blythe Cove, under the cliffs of Hillsborough, on the farther side from the town. The distance is about a mile, and bathing here is free, the cove being town property.
4. Hele Beach. Every convenience for bathers is supplied at this beach, where an ample supply of tents will be found.
5. A large public Swimming Bath is attached to the
Jlfracombe
GOLF— STEAMER AND MOTOR TRIPS 5
Ilfracombe Hotel. Open daily from 7 a.m. Mixed bathing at stated times. Tickets, is. each, or six for 35. Also hot and cold baths.
6. Tepid Swimming Bath at the Baths near the entrance to the Tunnels. Here are also hot and cold baths.
Golf. '
Golfers are well catered for on the sporting i8-holes course (5,105 yards) overlooking the sea a short distance beyond Hele. It possesses a well-appointed Club House where lunches and teas can be obtained, while a frequent motor-'bus service brings it close to the centre of Ilfra- combe (fees, etc., see p. i). The annual open meeting is in August. Special competitions are arranged for visitors, weekly during the summer.
At the Victoria Pleasure Grounds, as already stated, is a public Putting Green (18 holes, 6d. ; 9 holes, 3^. ; including use of club and ball).
Steamer Trips.
The daUy steamer trips are one of Ilfracombe's greatest attractions. The trips vary from an afternoon or evening cruise in Barnstaple Bay to day trips to the South Wales and Bristol Channel ports. Excellent meals are provided on all the boats. The services are fixed weekly, and advertised in the town and district and at the Steamship Company's offices on the Quay. Thousands of visitors who come to Ilfracombe every year from South Wales travel by these boats, which also form a cheap and pleasant means of reaching Ilfracombe from Bristol. Trips may be taken to Lynmouth, Clovelly, Lundy Island, Minehead, Bude, Weston-super-Mare, Newquay, Tintagel, and to Swansea, Tenby and other places on the South Wales coast.
Drives and Motor Trips.
Here, as elsewhere, the horse-drawn coach is being steadily limited to the shorter trips by the competition of the motor coaches. Booking offices abound in the
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town, and many of the vehicles call at the principal hotels and boarding houses.
Lee, Sterridge Valley, Watermouth Caves and Woola- combe, etc., are among the delightful places easily reached by horse-drawn vehicles. The motor-coach, however, has immensely widened the scope of the day trip, and places as far distant as Exeter, Torquay, Dartmoor and Bude are included in the tours which a few years since rarely extended beyond Clovelly — thirty- three miles each way. This trip is still one of the most popular, and every day in the season a number of cars go down in the morning and return in ample time for the evening meal. Barnstaple and Bideford are visited en route. The scenery is pleasing and varied. Between Barnstaple and Bideford there are good views, first of the river Taw and then of the Torridge and the estuary at Instow and Appledore, with Lundy Island in the distance — though not too plainly visible, let us hope, for a local couplet only too truthfully afi&rms :
" When Lundy's plain There will be rain."
The Exeter and Dartmoor trips are through well- wooded scenery following the Taw Valley upward. From Barnstaple to Exeter is the most level forty miles of road in Devonshire, but few points of interest are seen from the road, and the largest place one passes is Crediton. Eastward, Lynton, Lynmouth and Hunter's Inn are much visited by the cars.
In addition to these excursion trips, well-appointed enclosed motors maintain regular services to Combe Martin and to Lynton, Barnstaple, Bideford, Westward Ho ! and South Molton, to many of them several times a day, and as they stop at various intermediate points and run to a regular time-table they enable the visitor to reach interesting villages and other places not easily accessible by train. South Molton is rather beyond the scope of this Guide, but makes a delightful trip by road. Details of fares and times are posted in Messrs. Colwill's
HISTORICAL NOTE 7
office in High Street, and all the motor trips are well advertised in the town.
Historical Note.
Ilfracombe is said to have derived its Saxon name, Alfreincombe, from a supposed residence of Alfred the Great. It was subsequently known as Hilfrincombe, Ilfridcombe, Ilfordcombe, and other variations. To its small natural harbour — a rarity on the north coast of Devon — the town undoubtedly owed most of its past importance. Edward III had reason to thank Ilfra- combe as a port for assistance, inasmuch as the place contributed six ships and ninety-six mariners to the fleet destined for the expedition to France in 1346 and the capture of Calais in 1347. Several historical records mention that " Ilfracombe, having been a garrison of the Parliament, was taken in September, 1644, for the King, by Sir Francis Doddington, with twenty pieces of ordnance, twenty barrels of powder, and two hundred stands of arms." In 1685 Colonel Wade and his com- panions unsuccessfully endeavoured to reach the Con- tinent from Ilfracombe after the defeat of the Duke of Monmouth at Sedgemoor.
Rapparee Cove, which forms part of the Harbour, was the site of the wreck of a large treasure vessel, a portion of the combined Spanish and French fleets captured by Lord Rodney in 1782. Skulls, gold, and silver have been washed ashore at various times here.
In 1797 four French ships appeared in the harbour and scuttled all the vessels there.
From the prosperous days of Edward III, Ilfracombe gradually declined as a port, owing partly to the energy and rising importance of the neighbouring towns, Barn- staple and Bideford. From Norman days the manor has been held at different periods by the Champer- nounes, Martyns, Greys, Sir Philip Sidney, the Audleys, and the Wreys. Camden, the celebrated antiquary and historian, held the prebend of Ilfracombe from the year 1589 to 1628.
A STROLL THROUGH THE TOWN.
AN advantage of arriving at Ilfracombe by rail is that one has immediately a panoramic view of the town. The Station is the terminus of the railway, which here ends abruptly at the top of the hill, from which a steep road leads down into the town. The dis- tance to the Capstone is about a mile. Outside the station one looks directly over the town. On the left is a high range of switchback hills — the Tors. The green slopes on this side, however, give no idea of the grandeur of the other side. But that is a walk to be taken later. The Capstone appears small in the dis- tance, especially in comparison with Hillsborough. Running back into the valley, or combe, away from the sea, is the residential part of Ilfracombe proper. Dotted about on prominent points which give them a command- ing appearance are some of the principal hotels, and beyond is the Bristol Channel, with glimpses, if the day be moderately clear, of the Welsh coast in the distance. Station Road leads down to the town ; at the bottom, on the left, is the Parish Church (Holy Trinity), and close at hand the site of the War Memorial. To the right is Church Street, the beginning of the main artery of the town. The shops — Ilfracombe is an admirable shopping centre — begin here. Church Street merges into High Street, and we pass the Congregational and Baptist Chapels. On the left is the Scala Cinema. Running along a considerable distance on one side of High Street is a high bank which rather detracts from the appearance of the street and makes it in places unduly narrow. Proposals to level the bank have been made from time to time, but the expense would be considerable. At one end, however, a little has been taken away. There are
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some good shops in this street, and the Chiel Post OfQce is on the left, as is also the Palace Cinema. Half-way along High Street is the Town Hall, also on the left, at the corner of Market Street, with the Alexandra Hall just a little behind it, and a few yards farther we reach the Arcade. At the fork, the right-hand road, starting as Portland Street, is the high-road to Barnstaple, vid Muddiford and Pilton.
The left. Fore Street, which we take, slopes steeply down. Through the little streets on the left glimpses ol the sea and the Capstone are obtained. At the end of Fore Street is the Harbour, above which, on the right, rise several fine terraces. Keeping the Harbour on the right, we reach the entrance to the Pier and Lantern Hill. On Cheyne Beach, approached by a narrow passage, seats have -been placed. There is a fine view of Lantern Hill from here, and the approaching and departing steamers can be watched. Turning westward, we walk along St. James's Place, with the pleasant green vista of the Cap- stone lawn at the end. So far, houses and shops have denied " views," but as soon as the Capstone is reached (a huge rock nearly 200 ft. high, with grassy slopes on the land side), the town is more open, and one sees something of Ilfracombe proper. The Capstone is on the right, with the Victoria Pavilion sheltering itself at the foot. In front are the artistically laid out Victoria Pleasure Grounds, on one side a bowling green, and on the other a putting course. Opposite, on the other side of the road, is a row of smart shops and cafes, with, at the end, the Gaiety concert hall.
When looking at the tidy lawns here, in the calm of a sunny summer day, it is difficult to realize the havoc that a storm will sometimes cause in this apparently sheltered spot. The great tidal wave of December, 1910, will be long remembered in the town. The sea then rose over Wildersmouth Beach, destroyed a low wall, and, carrying lamp-posts and seats before it, turned the Pleasure Grounds into a seething whirlpool and wrought great damage to the shops along the front.
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Just beyond the Capstone is Wildersmouth Beach, studded with great rocks and boulders. A large portion of what would otherwise have been open frontage to the sea is occupied by the building and grounds of the Ilfracombe Hotel. The castellated building above is the Granville Boarding House. Facing the sea and the Cap- stone Parade is the Imperial Private Hotel.
We now enter Wilder Road, with its many private hotels. Market Street and the Market are on the left. A little farther along, where several roads converge, we notice the Baths on the right, and the entrance to the Tunnels — passages which pierce the cliff and thus provide access to another beach largely resorted to for bathing. Here we can keep to the right for Tors Park Road and turn up Granville Road for the entrance to the Tors Walk, or, by keeping to the left along Wilder Road, can complete the circuit of the town, arriving at Church Street again.
Having taken a preliminary survey, greater attention may be given to certain more important features of the town.
The Pier and Harbour.
Admission. — 2d. ; day tickets, 34. ; weekly, is. 6d. ; monthly, 3s. Landing and embarking, ^d.
The Pier, a substantial construction of wood, to which considerable improvements have in recent years been made, is a favourite place from which to watch the arrival and departure of steamers. At the same time visitors can listen to open-air entertainments and band concerts. Fetes, aquatic and otherwise, are also held at intervals. Within the boundaries of the Pier are housed the Board of Trade rocket life-saving apparatus and the Lifeboat.
Of the antiquity of Ilfracombe Harbour, proof is found in the roll of Edward HFs fleet, taken in 1346, where the town is described as having provided six vessels and ninety-six men, whereas the Mersey found but one vessel and five men. The course of years, how-
LANTERN HILI^-THE CAPSTONE 11
ever, has dealt very differently with Ilfracombe and with Liverpool.
The old Pier to the right, protecting the inner harbour, was built by the Wrey family, when Lords of the IManor of Ilfracombe, as an inscription records. The tolls now benefit the town.
The conical —
Lantern Hill,
a hundred feet high, is crowned by a small building dating back about seven hundred years, the pride of " old " Ilfracombe. Originally a Chapel dedicated to St. Nicholas, the patron saint of sailors, it is now used as a Lighthouse, showing a red light to point the entrance to the Harbour. The popular idea is that long before Trinity House took up the guardianship of our shores, the lights burning on the altar were sufficient to guide mariners when negotiating dangerous passages in the Channel. It is more probable that the 'Combe sailors and fishermen combined worldly wisdom with piety, and placed a good light in the roof of the little building both to light the interior and to shed a reflection across the water for the guidance of their comrades at sea. Pretty winding paths lead from the Pier to the old chapel, and the seats make the hill a pleasant lounge, from which splendid views are gained.
The Capstone and Capstone Parade.
The Capstone is the most popular promenade in Ilfra- combe. If the town can be said to have a " front," this is it. The Capstone rises abruptly from the sea, and is a huge rock 156 ft. high, almost precipitous on the north (or sea) side, dizzily sheer on the west, but with a steep grassy slope on the town side. From the top fine views of the Channel and of Lundy Island are obtained, with the South Wales coast in the distance. Local enterprise has hewn a broad walk round the base, and built a protecting wall on the sea side. At intervals there are steep steps from the promenade to the rocks
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beneath, and here and there steps have been cut in the lower rocks themselves to facihtate a scramble at low water in search of anemones, of which many varieties are found. Seats are placed in every possible nook and corner of the Parade, as well as along the paths which scale the Capstone. Comfortable Shelters are provided facing the sea, and a Bandstand is close by. To the south- east is a Rockery with alcoves and seats. As protection from the wind can always be had on one side or other of the Capstone, visitors can remain in the open air even on rough days without inconvenience, a matter of no slight importance to invalids. By ascending the Cap- stone after dark a unique effect can be witnessed, the town's innumerable lights not quite illuminating the darkness, but " rendering darkness visible."
Viewed either from the Capstone or the Parade a rough sea at Ilfracombe is a magnificent and never-to-be- forgotten sight. Wildersmouth Beach is then a mass of tumbling foam, the waves breaking among the rocks in grand confusion.
The Tors Walks.
The walks are private property, and a charge of $d. is made.
To visit Ilfracombe without seeing the Tors is to miss its most attractive feature. This famous beauty spot is situated at the western end of the town. Go along Wilder Road, turning right and at once left where the entrance to the Tunnels is noticed, and then a short distance along Tors Road turn up Granville Road to the right, and beyond tke houses on the left will be found the entrance to the Tors, or, as the signboard declares, " The Alps of England." The roads here are a little confusing, but the signboards show the way.
By a succession of zigzag paths the hills rise abruptly one above the other to a height of some 500 feet above the sea. Ferns and all kinds of wild growth fringe the way, with here and there walls of solid rock, which also peeps above the greenery in many places. The paths slope gently enough for the walk not to be fatiguing.
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But in no case would one " rush " the Tors. The ever- changing views of the Channel, then a glimpse of the Capstone, followed by a peep at another point down over the cliffs to the bathing beaches at the Tunnels below, compel countless pauses. In cosy nooks seats are provided in plenty, and at the summit is a refresh- ment pavilion. From the lower paths are ways of getting down to the beaches below. From the summit one looks down on the railway station, which itself seems such a height when one first arrives. Ilfracombe is far below that again. Across in the direction of Bull Point Lighthouse stretch the Do\vns, through which the clifE path runs to Lee and Mortehoe.
Cairn Top.
A popular picnic resort is Cairn Top, a hill 511 ft, high, reached from the top of Station Road, near the Railway Station. It is the property of the town. The climb to the top is stiff, but rewards the energetic with splendid views in all directions. The name of the height is derived from the pile of rocks at the summit.
Bicclescombe Park.
In the same direction from the town is a charming ramble by way of Bicclescombe Park to Score Woods. At the bottom of Station Hill keep to the lower road — St. Brannock's — soon branching again to the left along Bicclescombe Park Road. Some little way out is Bicclescombe Park, an athletic ground which has of late been considerably improved, and where facilities for tennis are provided.
Hillsborough Hill.
This noble headland, 447 ft. high, and from the sea practically perpendicular, is another of the public pleasure grounds of the town. It is one of the few points of vantage from which the sun appears to rise out of and to set in the sea, and commands a grand view
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of the town and its surroundings. The ascent is not difficult ; signboards indicate the easiest route. The hill is reached by a walk through the fields from the front of Larkstone Terrace, and past the lawn tennis ground and putting green. The District Council have thoughtfully provided not only a good supply of seats, but, what are sometimes a great convenience, Storm Shelters, and on the west side overlooking the harbour is a Tea Pavilion. These shelters are not ornamental sum- mer-houses, but solidly-constructed iron-roofed sheds, built into the rock, intended to serve as temporary refuges in case of sudden storms. From the highest point a magnificent panorama is seen. The Welsh coast is discernible twenty miles distant, and the intervening sea has an ever-changing interest by reason of the ships of all nationalities making their way up or down the Bristol Channel. Eastward are the Hangman Hills, Great and Little, the former over 1,000 ft. high. At our feet lie the sheltered hamlet of Hele and Hele Bay, Inland the wooded heights of Berry Down are seen ; and the other half of the picture is completed by the superb view of beautiful Ilfracombe, with the Harbour, Lantern Hill, the Capstone, the Tors and Tors Park, Cairn Top and Score Wood, enclosing and sheltering the town on all sides.
For those who are not good climbers there is a delight- ful walk round the base of Hillsborough. Approaching through the field path from Ilfracombe, the path leads to the right of Hillsborough — at the back, so to speak — and presently overlooks Hele. The steep path which appears to descend to Hele Beach leads nowhere. Keep on the same level, and the path, which has several seats, will lead right round the hill, passing Blythe Cove. After walking parallel with the sea for some time, Ilfracombe is once more in sight, and a steep and slippery path descends to the beach opposite the Pier. Here can be inspected at low water several fine cavities in the rocks, veritable chambers and halls worn by the action of the waves.
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Heights.
The following are the approximate heights of hills in and near Ilfracombe :
Feet. Feet. Lantern Hill . . . loo Coddon Hill, Barn- Capstone Hill . . . 156 staple .... 630 Gallantry Bower, Clo- Slade Down . . . 673
velly 387 Little Hangman Hill . 716
Hillsborough . . . 447 Great Hangman Hill . 1044
The Tors . . (about) 600 Kentisbury Down . . 1105
Cairn Top . . . -511 Holdstone Down . . 1146
Chapman Burrows . 1500
Ilfracombe Parish Church.
The Parish Church (Holy Trinity) is close to the foot of the hill leading to the Railway Station. It is an old church, presenting a mixture of styles. Records show that in 1322 it was enlarged, and it is suggested that to this enlargement is due the fact that the tower occupies its unusual position in the middle of the church. There are a number of monuments, including one to members of the Cutcliffe family, dated 1637, which forms a double acrostic. In the churchyard, on the tomb of George Stanbury, who died in 1740, is a curious nautical epitaph.
On the outer side of the eastern wall of the Church is a list of centenarians who have lived in the parish. The stone contains the names of ten, the earliest buried in 1784, the last in I9i3,aged 103. The longevity of its inhabitants says much for the healthful air of Ilfracombe.
EXCURSIONS FROM ILFRACOMBE.
THE following distances by road to the principal places of interest round Ilfracombe will assist the tourist, and, perhaps, decide his mode of locomo- tion :
Distances by Road.
Appledore (vid Instow
ferry). Barnstaple
,, (by rail)
Berrynarbor Braunton . Bideford Bull Point (by coast road'
,, „ (vid Mortehoe Clovelly (by boat)
,, (by rail and road
Croyde Bay Combe Martin . Instow .... Lee (by coast road) Lynton (road) .
Miles.
20^ 12
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3i 8
Miles. Lynton (steamer) ... 13 Minehead 37
35 II
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Mortehoe (coast road) ,, (main road)
, from Mortehoe
Railway Station Parracombe ....
Porlock
Saunton Sands Watermouth .... Woolacombe (coast road) Westward Ho ! (vid Bideford) .... Westward Ho ! {vid
Instow ferry) Woody Bay (road)
12
30
II
3
7
25
22J I4i
Several of the foregoing places are described in the Bideford and Barnstaple sections of this book.
Of excursions from Ilfracombe we deal first with that—
TO LEE AND BULL POINT.
There is no prettier place near Ilfracombe than — Lee.
Church. — St. Matthew's. Sunday services, 11 and 6.30.
Distance. — ^Three miles.
Golf.— Lee Golf Club (18 holes). See p. 17.
Hotel. — Lee Bay.
Station. — Mortehoe, 2J miles.
Lee lies in a combe aptly known as the Fuchsia Valley. The last part of the carriage-road is leafy, but the
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gradient is steep and trying for horses. Pedestrians usually prefer the Coast Road, entered from the Tors estate. Signboards point the way ; from the refresh- ment pavilion at the top of the Tors walk the path can be traced onwards, through a gateway or two and over a stile to its junction with the road, hardly deserving the name in places. Soon after it begins to drop to Lee Bay, a signpost on the left beside a stUe indicates the path down to the village. Alternatively, one may go by way of Church Hill and Langleigh Road, or through the hamlet of Slade.
With residents in the happy village of Lee, longevity is a fascinating pursuit, and several " centuries " have been scored. It is recorded that one old lady, with excusable nervousness, rose at four o'clock on the hun- dredth celebration of her birthday, lest she should not live to tell the tale. Her neighbours gave her a purse of gold, and she was also presented with a hundred bunches of white roses. Several veterans had nearly reached the coveted age, but from extraneous circumstances, not from innate weakness, were snatched away prematurely at the age of ninety-nine. The one hotel and licensed house is the Lee Bay Hotel, formerly the manor-house, beautifully situated in its own grounds of about fifteen acres. Just before the carriage-road enters the village, there is on the right a pretty little Dripping Well. The Old Post Office is a popular place for luncheons, teas, etc., as also is Warcombe Farm, reached by a pleasant walk.
The links of the Lee Golf Club are on the cliffs between the Bay and Bull Point, within a short distance of the hotel. It is a sporting course with good natural turf and has recently been increased to i8 holes after the design of James Braid. There is a club house on the course and three shelters. Entrance fee £'i 35. ; annual subscription £2, 3s. Green fees, 2s. 6d. per day ; los. per week.
St. Matthew's Church, built in 1834, contains several monuments and a window to descendants of Sir Bernard Drake of Ashe, who, according to Prince, boxed the ears
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of his distant though more famous kinsman Sir Francis, because the latter assumed the wyverns on his coat of arms. The manor of Lee belonged to the Cutcli£fe family, one of whom married a descendant of Sir Bernard. John Cutcliflfe, a well-known reforming friar, was born at Damage Barton, the old manor house of the family, passed on the way to Mortehoe by footpath, in 1340, and there are Cutcliffe memorials in Ilfracombe and Swimbridge churches.
Lee Bay is small, but the view of the sea, the cottages, the combe, and the thickly-wooded hills makes a perfect picture.
About two miles west of Lee is —
Bull Point Lighthouse. The road ascends very steeply from Lee. To reach the Lighthouse, continue by the road until a signboard on the left, pointing to a track on the right, indicates a Footpath to Mortehoe and Bull Point Lighthouse. After crossing several fields and a brook, another signboard points To the Lighthouse. The pathway traverses most beautiful scenery. The Lighthouse can generally be seen in the afternoons under guidance of the keeper. (Those who drive from Mortehoe must obtain the key to the road gate at Sea view Cottage, towards the end of the village, and give it back on return.) The white light gives three flashes in quick succession every thirty seconds and is visible eighteen miles. The fixed red light, 18 ft. below the flashing light, gives warning to mariners of the proximity of the dreaded Morte Stone. During fog the siren gives one blast every minute,
TO MORTEHOE.
Distance from Ilfracombe. — By coast, 5 miles ; by road, 6 miles. Mortehoe can
also be reached by rail. Station about 2 miles from village. Conveyances
ply between. Golf. — Lee Golf Club, 2| miles from Mortehoe Station. Eighteen holes. See
p. 17. Places of Worship. — St. Mary Magdalene; Sunday services, 11 and 6.30. Wes-
leyan Chapel, 11 and 6.30.
Morte Point is a cliff with a deadly reef of rocks ex- tending a mile from the shore. It is easily recognized.
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In Prose Idylls, Kingsley's comment is : "a chaos of rock ridges. The Death Rock does not belie its name. See how, even in this calm, it hurls up its column of spray at every wave ; and then conceive being en- trapped between it and the cliffs on some blinding, whirling, winters night, when the land is shrouded thick in clouds, and the roar of the breakers hardly precedes by a minute the crash of your bows against the rock."
The landowner has presented the Point as a public space and it is controlled by the National Trust.
Various legends connect Mortehoe with the scene of the supposed perpetual doom of the family of Tracy, Norman lords of the barony of Barnstaple, on account of the participation of Sir William de Tracy in the murder of Thomas a Becket. The old Church of St. Mary Magdalene (probably twelfth-century), in which may be seen some fine bench ends, contains the tomb of " Sir William Tracy," but it has been conclusively shown that this " Sir " William was a priest of the church, not a knight militant. He was, in fact, rector of Mortehoe from 1257 to 1322, and died 146 years later than Becket' s assassin. It was an old-world custom to bestow on clergy in priests' orders who were not univer- sity graduates the title of Sir.
While on the subject it may be well to say that there were two Tracy families, and that, strictly speaking, the murderer was not a Tracy at all, being the son of Sir John de Sudeley, and only assuming the name on his marriage with Grace, the daughter of Sir William de Tracy, said to be a natural son of Henry I. The Tracys, who were overlords of the manors belonging to the barony of Barnstaple, of which Mortehoe was one, were descended in the maternal line from the Domesday Baron Judhel of Totnes, and were settled in the neigh- bourhood long prior to the year 1170, so that the fre- quent occurrence of the name in North Devon does not justify the common assumption of a connection with the murderer of the " pestilent priest." Nevertheless,
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it is curious to observe that the church of Newton Tracey, near Barnstaple, is dedicated to St. Thomas a Becket ; and that yet again, local legends connect the founder of the church at Nymet Tracey, near Yeoford Junction, with the murderer of Becket. Bovey Tracey Church has the same distinction and dedication. A chapel to St. Thomas a Becket once stood by Barnstaple Bridge, and, according to Cribble's Memorials (1830), " obtained some celebrity from being said to have been built by Sir William de Tracy, one of the prelate's assassins, in expiation of his crime." There are at least six accounts, each totally different, of " the end " of Sir William de Tracy. It is conjectured that the well- known saying, or curse —
" Oh, woe to the Trades With ever the rain and the wind in their faces,"
may have arisen from the fact that Sir William de Tracy and others of the family vainly endeavoured to make a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, but were always driven back by contrary winds and violent gales. According to a letter to Notes and Queries from one of the numerous descendants of the Tracys, " the fate of members of the family has been very similar to that of most other families. Some have been fortunate in their lives, and others have had ' the rain and the wind in their faces.' "
TO BARRICANE.
By taking the cliff road southward from Mortehoe Barricane is soon reached. It is a quaint little rocky cove, very narrow, noted for its beach of minute shells. Zoolites are found here.
As Mortehoe points with proud boast, but unquestion- able inaccuracy, to the tomb of Sir William de Tracy, Barricane retaliates by claiming him as a ghostly resi- dent.
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TO WOOLACOMBE.
Access. — By motor-'bus from Mortchoe Station — also a service from Ilfracombe.
Bank. — Lloyds (Wednesday, lo to 12. During season, Friday also).
GoU. — Woolacombe Bay Golf Course, 18 holes. Visitors, 3s. day, 20s. two weeks,
30S. month. Ladies, 2s. day, 15s. two weeks, 22s. 6d. month. Hotel. — Woolacombe Bay.
Places ol Worship. — St. Sabinus ; United Methodist. Post Office. — 9 a.m. to j p.m., 2 to 7 p.m. Sundays and Bank Holidays, 9 to
10.30 a.m.
Woolacombe is a seaside resort of rapidly-growing importance, reached by way of Mortehoe station, ij miles distant, with which, as with Ilfracombe, it is con- nected by motor-'bus. An excellent water supply is obtained by arrangement with the Ilfracombe Urban District Council, and there is a good gas supply. It is necessary to write some time ahead for accommodation both at Woolacombe and Mortehoe, which are now separated only by a short distance of cliff road.
Parents find Woolacombe a paradise for children, who have for their enjoyment a fine stretch of sands, perfectly safe, about three miles in length. Such a superb stretch is in delightful contrast to the severity of the surrounding rock and cli£f. Several charming drives can be taken, including that by the Marine Drive, running parallel with the sands and commanding exten- sive views.
Woolacombe prides itself upon its equable climate, the advantages of which are being discovered by in- creasing numbers each year, as is evidenced by the many pretty viUas which have been erected on the high ground. Taking Torquay as the best example on the South Coast for comparison with regard to bright sunshine, the official records give Woolacombe a decided advan- tage in the five dullest months of the year of nearly 107 hours. It is claimed that Woolacombe, being sheltered from the north, east, and south-east, facing due west, and overlooking the open Atlantic, has a far more brac- ing air than any place on the South Coast open only to the south.
The attractive Woolacombe Bay Hotel is surrounded by extensive pleasure grounds. Close to the hotel are the
22 CHAMBERCOMBE VALLEY
Golf Links, a sporting i8-hole course nearly two miles in length. The hazards are formidable sand hills, some 60 ft, in height, loose sand bunkers, a road with open ditch, and other obstacles. The greens are well main- tained and the lies are good. There are good public Tennis Courts in addition to those at the hotel. There is a Church, consecrated in 1912, and dedicated to St. Sabinus, who came over from Ireland to preach Chris- tianity and was wrecked at Woolacombe. The place includes several boarding-houses, a chapel, post and telegraph office, and a convalescent home.
TO CHAMBERCOMBE VALLEY.
This is a pretty and popular walk, with charmingly varied scenery, within easy distance of the town. Pro- ceed by way of Portland Street to the Hillsborough road, east of the town ; pass the thatched cottage on the right and follow the Chambercombe Road to Manor- House and Comyn Farm. The farm-house at Chamber- combe is historic, and was formerly the residence of the Champernoune family. Recently a coat-of-arms was discovered, carved in stone, beneath the plaster in one of the rooms. Some interest attaches to an antique oak bed, and many traditions are associated with the house, the interior of which repays inspection. (A charge is made for admission and lunches and teas can be obtained. )
At Comyn Farm, near by, where also teas may be obtained, is the entrance to the Valley and Woods, which are private property, but open to visitors. The farm is less than half an hour's walk from High Street, Ilfracombe.
From the Woods, return again to Comyn Farm — there is no outlet through the Woods — and take a path to the left leading over fields to the Barnstaple Road, by which the return may be made to Ilfracombe, or the walk extended to the Sterridge Valley.
TO BERRYNARBOR.
This is a pretty walk. There are two ways :
[a) (About three miles.) Via Hele village, which is practically a suburb of Ilfracombe. At the
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turnpike turn to the right, and go by the old Berry narbor Road over the hill, (b) to Comyn Farm, as on p. 22, thence by a lane skirting the woods and past Lower Trayne Farm to a road reached at a signpost which points to Chambercombe by the route just traversed. Here by turning left and later right Berrynarbor can be reached by road, a dull route, the better one being to descend to the Sterridge Valley. Opposite the signpost is a- stile leading to a continuing footpath ; this slopes do\\Ti rightwards to a combe, eventually reach- ing a footbridge over the little stream. Sheep tracks are somewhat bewildering, but the path to this point is pretty plainly marked. Cross the bridge and follow a path that keeps fairly close to stream, over stiles or through gates until a road is struck, when turn left and into that along this beautiful valley, which is followed until Berrynarbor is reached.
The return can be made, if a longer walk is desired, through Combe Martin, or by turning left down past the church and then right, down the valley past the lake, the motor route will be reached not far from Watermouth.
Berrynarbor is a staid little village, taking its name from one Berry de Nerbert, a former lord of the manor, whose monument is in the church. The Church, dedicated to St. Peter, has a good tower, 80 ft. high, and an interesting interior. There are memorials to the Berrys, and the squire's pew, containing a fireplace, on the right of the chancel, is an interesting survival.
The village is noted for an old farmhouse, Bowden, the birthplace, in 1522, of Bishop Jewell, whose Apologia EcclesicB AnglicancB so pleased Queen Elizabeth that it was ordered to be chained in the parish churches.
Outside the church, opposite the tower, is all that remains of the Berry manor house, which, after having been divided into cottages, is now incorporated in an Institute room.
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26 WATERMOUTH— COMBE MARTIN
The hamlet of Hele is divided into two parts, one clus- ter of houses nestling between the hills and among the trees, the remaining houses filling the entrance to Hele Bay, Running beside this last-named row of cottages are a stream and a pathway, which lose themselves on the little beach. A disused lime kiln adds an " ancient " touch to the scene. The bay and beach are miniature, but mighty Hillsborough towers above like a protecting giant.
TO WATERMOUTH.
Distance from lUracombe. — 3 miles (on Combe Martin 'bus route).
About half-way between Ilfracombe and Combe Martin is a pretty castellated residence, Watermouth Castle, belonging to the Basset family. The gardens are among the finest in North Devon. Opposite the grounds, on the left-hand side of the road, will be seen a small gate, close to which a board conveys the informa- tion that the caves {admission ^d.) can be visited on week-days from June to September. The views are magnificent, and if the morning be a little hazy, with a hot sun, the effect of Great Hangman Hill looming in the distance is grand. A boatman is usually waiting to take visitors on a little tour of inspection. This is undoubtedly the best way of seeing the caves. The formation of the rocks here, especially at Briary Cave, is most peculiar. In 1919 a landslip occurred, when some hundreds of tons of shale and limestone supporting the clifiE road fell into the sea. A new road was completed in 1920, and is used by the motor service between Ilfra- combe and Combe Martin.
TO COMBB MARTIN.
Access. — By a regular and frequent motor-'bus service between Ilfracombe and
Combe Martin. Banks. — Lloyds, Midland, and National Provincial.
Boating. — Rowing boats can be hired, and there are a number of motor-boats. Clubs. — Conservative and Liberal, both in High Street. Early Closing Day. — Wednesday. Golf.— Ilfracombe Golf Club. {See pp. 1 and 3.) Institute (billiards, etc.). — Visitors 6d. per week. Motor-'buses. — ^To Ilfracombe, Lynton (in summer) and (on certain days)
Barnstaple. Places of Worship. — Parish Church. — Sunday services at 8, 11 and 6.30; daily
9.30 a.m. Baptist and Wesleyan. — Sundays, 11 and 6.30.
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Popnlatlon. — About 2,000. Doubled in summer.
Post OEQce. — High Street, 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. ; Wednesday, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. (closed
12.30 to 1.30 p.m. every day) ; Bank Holidays, 9 to 10.30 a.m. Sub-of&ce
at Seaside.
The road from Ilfracombe is on high ground nearly all the way, necessitating a sharp dip as the village is approached. (Cyclists will note the danger board at the top of the hill.) This is regarded as one of the prettiest marine drives in the district.
Combe Martin, situated amid delightful scenery, has become very popular with visitors, and has grown so much that it aspires to the dignity of an Urban District Council. The name is derived from combe — " a low and deep valley surrounded by very high hills," and Martin — " Le Sieur Martin de Tours," a man of much worth and assistance to William Duke of Normandy. The view from the hill on the Ilfracombe side of the bay is charm- ing. Green fields, well-cultivated market gardens, quaint thatched cottages and tasteful modern villas nestling in cosy corners, make a picture contrasting well with the wild scenery of the coast.
The little bay, snugly tucked away among the cliffs, is picturesque at all times, and at low water the stream meanders seawards across the sands, but the visitor should heed warning notices about the danger of falling cliffs, as these falls occur from time to time. Over- looking the bay on the west side, and shaded by trees in part, is a walk and promenade provided with seats which is, perhaps, the best loitering place in Combe Martin, especially towards evening when the lowering sun sets off the varied colouring to perfection.
Combe Martin itself consists principally of a single long, straggling street, a mile or more in length. There are a number of good shops. To the artist and the lover of quiet, the place is an ideal holiday resort. A number of houses are let furnished during the summer months, and there are apartment houses close to the picturesque harbour, for the place has developed greatly in the last few years. A correspondent, long resident in the village, contributes the following note :
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" The surroundings are indescribably beautiful, the village winding through a fertile valley alongside a rushing brook. The climate is almost perfect. Rain falls during the winter (which scarcely ever starts before January) ; but it quickly runs off the high hills, and the soil being shale, gravel and rock, the roads dry quickly. The air is mild and would be relaxing were it not for the sea breezes which blow from the north-west and seem to come straight from the Atlantic. A stay here, even of short duration, is wonderfully beneficial to those suffering from threatened lung trouble. The neigh- bourhood is much frequented by Anglo-Indians."
A great proportion of the inhabitants are engaged in market gardening and fruit-growing, the soil and climate being very favourable, and the produce finding a ready sale in Ilfracombe, Lynton and Lynmouth. Straw- berry-growing is largely practised, and many tons of fruit are dispatched to London, South Wales, and other large centres every summer. Of late years a jam fac- tory has been established and has manufactured large quantities. In 1924 the Parish Council entered into a lease of 80 acres of Little Hangman Hill {see p. 31), which has been made more accessible by a new path by way of Pear Beach.
The Church,
the chancel of which is vaguely dated at about the twelfth century, was built by Lord Martin, a lord of the manor (Combe Martin was originally known as Martin's Combe). The fine tower, 99 ft. high, is of later date. The interior of the church is most interesting. The key by which the door is opened is five hundred years old, and looks its age.
The feature of the Church which claims most atten- tion is the Screen, of wood. The central doors are three inches wider than the opening, so that they cannot be closed. This is a peculiarity of this screen, and does not help to indicate the age, which is of the late fifteenth century. It has figures of prophets and saints in most of the panels, but it has been altered and " restored," and, as Devonshire screens go, tliis is certainly not one of the best. The organ is new, A brass of 1587 to William
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Hancock will be noticed, also the elaborately sculptured monument to Judith Hancock (1637), the lace on her dress being particularly noteworthy. Some fragments of old glass may be seen in one of the windows. An old door — eight hundred years is somewhat doubtfully given as its age — leads into the vestry, and is worthy of note. Inside this vestry is an ancient oak chest containing a curiously wrought silver and lead communion service. Combe Martin Church was made widely known by the late ]\Iarie Corelli's novel. The Mighty Atom.
The King's Arms Hotel was formerly known to fame as " The Pack of Cards " as it was said to have been built in the eighteenth century from winnings at card- playing and constructed on the principle of a child's house of cards.
Besides being very fertile, the valley is rich in geolo- gical treasures. Blended with the prevalent formation of argillaceous slate are limestone, iron, copper, lead, tin, silver and gold. Silver, tin, and lead mines were discovered here as far back as the reign of Edward I, when 337 men were brought from the Peak of Derby- shire to work them. Records state that in the twenty- second year of that reign " William Wymondham accounted for 270 lb. weight of silver, forged for Lady Eleanor, Duchess of Barr, and daughter of Edward I. ... In the twenty-fourth year was brought to London in finest silver, in wedges, 704 lb. 3 dwt. ; and the next year 260 miners were pressed out of the Peak and Wales — and great was the profit in silver and lead."
Camden states that Combe Martin silver helped to pay the cost of the French wars in the reigns of Edward III and Henry V. From that period to the reign of Elizabeth the mines appear to have been neglected ; but then Adrian Gilbert discovered a new lode, which was subsequently worked by Sir Beavis Bulmer, Knt., with such skill that the mines again yielded a consider- able revenue. In 1593 he presented to the then Lord Mayor of London — Sir R. Martin, Knt. — a cup and cover of Combe Martin silver which bore the inscription :
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" When water-workes in Broken-Wharff At first erected were ; And Beavis Bulmer, by his art The waters 'gan to rear ;
Dispersed I in earth did lye,
Since all beginning olde, In place called Combe, where Martin long
Had hid me in his mold.
I did no service on the earth ;
Nor no man sate me free. Till Bulmer by his skiU and charge
Did frame me this to be."
In November, 1643, it was decided to recast these as " Lesser Potts," and some time afterwards they were made into three tankards, still to be seen at the Man- sion House, London.
After Bulmer's time the mines fell into desuetude. Since 1648 repeated attempts have been made to work them, but without permanent success. Combe Martin, however, is still regarded by many eminent geologists as a highly valuable, though neglected, mineral district.
There is a farmstead. West Challacombe, close to the village, built partly inside an old abbey or church, the oak roof of which may be seen in the passage at the back of the living-rooms. The front door is of worm-eaten oak, and on the panels are figures of a gentleman and a lady, apparently of the Stuart period. West Challa- combe is now a private residence.
Walks from Combe Martin.
Combe Martin abounds in delightful walks. The favourite is to the Great Hangman Hill. Turn up a flight of stone steps in the High Street and cross a vegetable garden known as The Shackies. Pass down a lane on the left until a gate across the lane is reached. On the other side enter a field immediately on the left and climb the footpath. On no account must dogs be taken beyond this point. On the way to Great Hangman a path is passed which leads down the face of the clifi to Hangman Beach, a delightful spot for picnics. On the north side of the beach is a stream of drink- ing water.
If a shorter walk is desired one can be taken by following
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this route only as far as Little Hangman. As already- stated, a shorter path from Combe Martin to Little Hangman was opened in 1924.
Great Hangman (1,044 ft-) a-nd Little Hangman (716 ft.), derive their ominous names, according to Fuller, from the following somewhat curious incident :
" Near Combe Martin is the hanging stone, one of the boundary stones which part Combe Martin from the next parish. It received this name from a thief, who, having stolen a sheep and tied it about his neck to carry it on his back, rested himself for a time upon this stone, which is about a foot high, until the sheep, struggling, slid over the stone on the other side and strangled the man."
Hunter's Inn, about six miles eastward, can be reached by turning up Shute Lane to Stoney Corner and taking the Trentishoe road, which follows the slight dip between Hold- stone and Trentishoe Downs, passing a little below Trentishoe Barrows and through the village of Trentishoe. Alternatively, Trentishoe village can be avoided by keeping to the right at the fork beyond the Barrows, and walkers may be recom- mended to go one way and return by the other, which will afford different and dissimilar views. Stoney Corner can also be reached through Buzzacot Lane, near the top of the village.
Another delightful walk is to Berry Down by way of the Barnstaple road, and back to Combe Martin through the Sterridge Valley and Berrynarbor village.
Watermouth Caves (p. 26) are about i^ miles along the road to Ilfracombe. Teas are provided here.
The walk to Blackmoor, 4^ miles, is hilly and uninteresting, but from Blackmoor there are frequent trains to Lynton and Barnstaple on the " Toy " Railway.
TO HUNTER'S INN, HEDDON'S MOUTH AND WOODY BAY.
From Combe Martin many of the conveyances con- tinue along the Lynton road to- —
Hunter's Inn.
This is, indeed, one of the most popular drives both from Ilfracombe and Lynton. The scenery in this dis- trict is generally considered the most romantic in Devon, and it is impossible to over-praise it.
Hunter's Inn is an idyllic spot in the combe which
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runs down to Heddon's Mouth. It can also be approached
vid the Lynton and Barnstaple Railway, with a delight- ful walk either from Woody Bay station or Parracombe. The Inn itself is a picturesque building beloved by anglers, artists and others.
Fishing tickets for the River Heddon may be had here by the day. The trout are considered excellent.
There is a marked contrast between the wooded love- liness of the valley in the vicinity of the Inn and the bare rocks where the combe opens to the sea at Heddon's Mouth. As one proceeds seawards the hills close in, making it a narrow glen or gorge, which varies with the seasons, it bearing a softer aspect in summer, when the greens hide much of the rock, than in winter, when the growth dies down and the rusty reds and browns with a full stream foaming over the boulders give it an air of wild grandeur. The valley can be followed on either side of the stream, that on the left or west bank (ap- proached by keeping to the road on the left of the Inn and taking a gate beyond a subsidiary stream) being more level than that on the right or east (the path starts close to the back of the Inn). Further on this path forks, one climbing the hillside and forming the clifi path to Woody Bay, which should only be traversed by those with clear heads, the other keeping more or less beside the stream until the shore is reached. Tourists must be careful about clambering up the steep hillside, as falls of cliff have lately been frequent.
All with little time to spare, especially those proceed- ing to Woody Bay or Lynton along the coast, may obtain a fine view of the Heddon's Mouth gorge by tak- ing the cliff road which starts to the right of Hunter's Inn. This gradually ascends, winding round sub- sidiary combes and then, turning Highveer Point, comes out on the open coast, with sheer drops to the sea in places, until, nearing Woody Bay, woods cut it off from the sea. The views are ever changing, those eastward across the bay towards Duty Point, the Castle Rock near Lynton, and the Foreland being especially fine.
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This road, however, is a private one and not fit for heavy traffic, and with its soft surface, in places covered with stones, and its sharp corners is really not fitted for motors. Above Woody Bay it joins the zig-zag grid- iron of roads that descends to the shore. By continuing straight ahead, avoiding turns up and down, and then through a gate, the road crosses a bridge over the Woody Bay stream and passes the hotel, eventually joining the private drive through the grounds of Lee Abbey. By turning to the left at the zig-zag, where a notice forbids motors, the road to the beach may be reached, a turn right lower down, crossing the stream by Inkerman Bridge (built in 1857 to commemorate the victory), being the road to Lee Abbey and Lynton.
An alternative, but less attractive, route, and very steep, is that through Martinhoe ; a track or path on the left some little way past the Church cuts a corner, joining the descending roads where the cliff drive goes ofi. It begins on the right of the Inn, striking immedi- ately uphill towards a house, and is apt to be overlooked as a mere track, continuing upwards through woods, somewhat thinned, with a stream bubbling near, until after passing the farm at Mannacott, a turn to the left must be taken. Motorists will find the best, if round- about, way is by continuing up the valley to the main road — more hills on the way ! — turning left in the direction of Lynton and left at Martinhoe Cross. The roads here cannot be called good and at Woody Bay itself are distinctly bad, nor are they improved by disagreements over ownership and responsibility for upkeep.
The parish of Martinhoe will always be associated with the memory of James Hannington, the martyred first bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa, who for some time laboured here and at Trentishoe.
Woody Bay, a charming glen, has, like every true Devonshire combe, a rushing torrent. The place has been opened up of lUTocombt (d)
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late, and finds much favour with motor parties and others. (Motorists proceeding to Hunter's Inn should read the preceding remarks about the reverse route. Motor parties can be recommended to alight at the top of the zig-zags, sending the motor on by the best road and themselves proceeding by the cliff drive.) The cliffs, covered with foliage to the water's edge, fall steeply to the sea, and perhaps more enjoyment can be obtained by looking at the scene from the roads which en- circle it high on the down than by exploring the various descending zig-zags through the trees, although some charming peeps may be had here and there.
Round the west side of the bay the downs soar some hundreds of feet, and are dotted with attractive villas. Below, near the strand, is Mariinhoe Manor House. The precipitous western horn of the inlet, wooded from base to summit, is Wringapeak.
LYNMOUTH AND LYNTON.
The road from Ilfracombe to Lynton (i8 miles) winds up hill and down dale, amid lovely scenery, passing Hele and Combe Martin. Then there is a stiff climb almost to the summit of Kentisbury Down (1,105 f^-)- From the cross-roads by Blackmoor Gate (station on Lynton and Barnstaple Railway) the road descends to Parracombe {Fox and Goose Inn). The next hill is also steep.
After another steep ascent the road passes the station for Woody Bay at Martinhoe Cross, and thence continues over Caf&ns Heanton Down to Lynton and Lynmouth.
Walkers can be recommended to go by the route vid Hunter's Inn (described on pp. 31-2), obtaining a good lift on the way by taking the 'bus to the top of Combe Martin village, and going over Trentishoe Down, but avoiding the village. From Hunter's Inn, the route continues by the cliff road to Woody Bay, past the hotel by the road leading to the Lee Abbey drive, and so to Lynton by the Valley of Rocks. This affords varying scenery of hill and valley, coast and woodland.
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BY STEAMER TO LYNIIOUTH 35
Ilfracombe to Lynmouth by Steamer (13 miles).
The depth of water is sufficient to allow the steamer to make the passage quite close to the coast in safety. The cliffs are lofty and precipitous and remarkable for the succession of little cascades which discharge into the sea. From Ilfracombe the principal features of interest are passed in the following order : Hillsborough, Hole Bay and Hele, Rillage Point, Watermouth Castle and Caves, Combe Martin (lying back), Little Hangman (716 ft.), and Great Hangman Hill {1,044 ft.). Be- yond is a cascade called Sherracombe, with a fall of about 60 ft., nicknamed " Sherry-come-out." Next comes Heddon's Mouth, and shortly afterwards the superb Woody Bay, aptly named, and Lee Bay. Wring- cliff Bay and the celebrated Castle Rock are followed immediately by LyDmouth in the hollow, and Lynton perched above to the right. Should it be low water when the steamer arrives, the landing and walk (or hop) over the boulders up to the quay is certainly trying. If distinctions are not invidious, the principal sights are :
[a) The walk up the East Lyn (cross the water by the second bridge, and continue by the path close to the river) to Watersmeet, two and a half miles, and return by the road.
[b) Glen Lyn, a glen of beautiful cascades and waterfalls entered from the foot of the hill leading to Lynton. Small charge for admission.
[c) The Valley of Rocks, Lynton. (Take the Cliff Railway up to Lynton, and proceed by North Walk.)
Note. — It is almost impossible, during the short time allowed, to visit the three places above named without " rush- ing." Allowing a reasonable time for luncheon, (a) and (6) can be managed easily ; or — to make a contrast — (a) and (c) might be tried, but longer time must be allowed to visit (c) than (b).
For full details as to scenery and objects of interest in this incomparable district our Guide to Lynton and Lynmouth should be consulted.
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36 ILFRACOMBE TO CLOVELLY
TO CLOVELLY.
Visitors from Ilfracombe have here a choice of routes : (i) By steamer, the journey occupying about an hour,
(2) By motor coach {see p. 6).
(3) By train and motor, viz., train to Barnstaple Junc-
tion, change, and cross the footbridge for the train to Bideford. During summer there is frequent motor communication between Bideford and Clovelly ; at other times the service may be too infrequent to allow sufficient time at Clovelly. See current timetables. The steamer from Ilfracombe does not follow the coast, but runs across Bideford Bay. The following are the places of interest passed, in order, from Ilfracombe : — The Tors, cosy Lee, Bull Point and Lighthouse, Rock- ham Bay, Morte Point and Bay, with the grand stretch of Woolacombe Sands, Baggy Point — another dangerous headland — Croyde Bay, Saunton Sands, and the wide estuaries of the Taw and Torridge. In the far dis- tance is seen Westward Ho !, and then the long stretch of high cliffs, completely hidden by thick woods, in the midst of which — straight ahead — the vision of Clovelly is quietly revealed. The landing at Clovelly is effected by means of boats. This charming village is described on other pages.
ILFRACOMBE TO BARNSTAPLE BY ROAD.
Cyclists and motorists may find a note with reference to this route useful. During the War the road via Muddiford was much damaged by timber-hauling, and the way via Braunton is still preferable, although a little longer. The motor-coaches use this road. A splendid run of about 25 miles may be had by going to Barnstaple by Muddiford and returning vid Braunton, as described below.
The "new" road to Barnstaple from Ilfracombe begins with a very stiff hill (Two Pots), rising to a height of over 800 ft., followed by a gentle decline for nearly all the way. The scenery is beautiful. At six miles is
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the Half-Way House, formerly an old-fashioned country inn. The road continues slightly down hill, with lovely wooded hills on each side. From Muddiford (8 miles), prettily situated amid woods and hills, a stream noted for salmon and trout runs beside the road. Fine varie- ties of ferns are in the walls and hedges around here. About two miles beyond Muddiford is a small Dripping Well on the left. The road now goes sharply down hill into Pilton, the northern suburb of Barnstaple, having an extremely awkward bend near the bottom, and thence
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TO CLOVELLY.
Visitors from Ilfracombe have here a choice of routes : (i) By steamer, the journey occupying about an hour.
(2) By motor coach {see p. 6).
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tion, change, and cross the footbridge for the train to Bideford. During summer there is frequent motor communication between Bideford and Clovelly ; at other times the service may be too infrequent to allow sufficient time at Clovelly.
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begins with a very stiff hill (Two Pots), rising to a height of over 800 ft., followed by a gentle decline for nearly all the way. The scenery is beautiful. At six miles is
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the Half-Way House, formerly an old-fashioned country inn. The road continues slightly down hill, with lovely wooded hills on each side. From Muddiford (8 miles), prettily situated amid woods and hills, a stream noted for salmon and trout runs beside the road. Fine varie- ties of ferns are in the walls and hedges around here. About two miles beyond Muddiford is a small Dripping • Weil on the left. The road now goes sharply down hill into Pilton, the northern suburb of Barnstaple, having an extremely awkward bend near the bottom, and thence over Pilton Bridge it crosses the light railway to Lynton at the end of Pilton Causeway and beginning of Barn- staple.
Barnstaple is described in a separate section.
For the return journey proceed by High Street, at the end of which cross the river by the swing bridge, thence following the Braunton Road, which is a continuation. The highway runs close to the railway, and is quite level, with a good surface. The populous parish of Braunton is reached in five miles. Entering the town, keep to the left at fork, and at the bottom of the slope by the tree turn right up the new road between the railway and the main street, the two roads joining again just beyond the Church, whence proceed keeping the railway on the left but not crossing it. (To avoid part of the town, keep a right course at the fork by the basket factory ; this leads direct to the Church, where bear round to the left, then sharply to the right). Knowie is passed one and a half miles later. At Knowie keep to the left by the inn, then straight forward by the main road, which gradually rises. Presently railway and road part company. By a few twists the latter does its best to avoid the hills, but these have to be encountered on nearing Mullacott Hill. The run from the high ground down into Ilfracombe finishes what is on the whole the best run of about twenty-five miles round Ilfracombe.
LUNDY.
Access. — The majority of visitors to Lundy are brought by the pleasure steamers which ply in summer from Ilfracombe, Cardiff, and other Bristol Channel ports. Generally about four hours are allowed on the Island, but this of course depends upon the tide.
The motor trawler Lerina makes a weekly visit, sailing from Instow, except at high spring tides, when it leaves from Barnstaple. Private parties may, of course, hire a saiUng or motor-boat at Instow or Appledore at any time convenient to them.
Accommodation. — ^There is a large and well-appointed Boarding House, and lodgings can be obtained at one or two cottages on the island.
Distances. — From 'Hju-tland Point, 11} miles; from Clovelly, 15 miles; from Ilfracombe, 23 miles ; from Instow, 23 rriiles.
Post Offlce. — ^There is a Post Office on the Island, but the money-order office is Instow, through which the weekly maU goes. There is public telephonic communication with Cardiff, Bristol, and the South-west of England from Lundy but not to the Island.
Befreshments. — Visitors who are on the Island only a few hours may have re- freshments in a building specially provided, where 25o"persons can be seated. The steamers have taken as many as 2,500 passengers to Limdy in one year.
" A lusty, black-browed girl, with forehead broad and high. That often hath bewitched the sea-gods with her eye."
SO Michael Drayton, in his Polyolbion, described Lundy Island, the granite sentinel of the Bristol Channel, which stands a lonely guard over one of the greatest waterways of England. Thousands of ships in the course of the year bound for, or just leaving, Bristol or the South Wales ports sail past Lundy — indeed, it is estimated that one-fifth of the shipping of the country passes by. In a storm the Island is a pleasant enough sight for the mariner, who generally finds safe anchorage and a shelter from the elements, even though a landing is denied him. Ever present in his mind is the local rhyme :
" From Padstow Port to Lundy Light, Is a watery grave by day or night."
In 1906, the magnificent battleship Montagu, practic- ally a new vessel, struck the Shutter rock during a fog, and, although expensive salvage operations were resorted to, had eventually to be abandoned, a loss to the country
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estimated at nearly ;^2, 000,000. But notwithstanding such a remarkable instance to the contrary, Lundy is generally regarded with favour by seamen, for, lying north and south, it acts as a gigantic breakwater during the prevalent westerly winter gales, and the roadstead off the east side of the island is usually quite smooth, with fine holding ground below a moderate depth of water. In bad weather over a hundred vessels have anchored at the same time in Lundy Roads.
The tourist who has time and opportunity would do well to include a visit to Lundy Island in his tour of North Devon, both for the pleasure of getting there and for the unique charm of the spot. If one is an average sailor the trip will be found very enjoyable if made from either Instow or Appledore. This trip gives quite the finest view of the North Devon coast that is to be obtained. Accommodation may be obtained {see p. xxiii.) and there is a general store which is comprehen- sive in the articles it sells.
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is a huge rock of granite, probably of volcanic origin, three and a half miles long, averaging just under half a mile broad, with cliffs rising almost perpendicularly from the sea to a height of from 400 to 500 ft. The total area is 1,047 acres. The late Rev. Hudson Groset Heaven, M.A., inherited the Island in 1883 from his father, who purchased the property in 1834. The pre- sent owner is IVIr. A. L. Christie, J. P., D.L., of Tapeley Park, lord of the manors of Instow and Westleigh, who purchased the property in 191 8.
The Bristol Channel pilots find Lundy a convenient place of call — a " half-way house," so to speak, and make use of it as such. The landing is made by small boats on the little piece of beach, on the south-east under the lighthouse. The soil is light and wild flowers abound. Only a small portion is under cultivation, but about a fourth of the area is permanent pasture, the rest being moorland. Bullocks and sheep are now success-
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fully raised on the Island, beside colts, goats, etc. Lobsters are caught in large quantities. An abundance of fresh water is supplied by the springs. Snow and ice are practically unknown. The study of bird life on Lundy is most interesting, and to preserve the many rare birds which nest here watchers are placed on duty in the breeding season. Birds long regarded as rarities in the British Isles appear with regularity and in considerable numbers. The peregrine falcon, cor- morant, puffin and oyster-catcher are common. The gannet, one of the largest of wild birds, breeds on the Island. Woodcock are very plentiful when severe winters are experienced on the mainland.
So much for Lundy as it is to-day. Its past is also interesting, if not always creditable. The earliest men- tion of this Island occurs in 1199, the first year of the reign of King John. Its then lord, William de Marisco (son and heir of Sir Jordan de Marisco, by Agnes, daugh- ter of Hamelin Plantagenet, natural son of Geoffrey, Earl of Anjou, the father of King Henry II), being in rebellion, the king gave the Island to the Knights Tem- plar. But we read that in the year 1202, the fourth of the same reign, the said William still held possession of the Island, for he was not a willing party to the gift, and possession being nine-tenths of the law, he made the other tenth by main force. Marisco, however, was received into royal favour in the following year, and the next mention of the Island is to be found in the records in the Tower, which show that Henry III gave it to the keeping of Henry de Tracy. It remained the property of the Crown for a long time, and various governors were appointed. It is recorded by Sir Thomas Delamere, Knight, that Edward II, about 1326, " endeavoured to shelter himself here from his troublesome wife and rebellious barons, who pursued him with great fury and threatenings." In the reign of Edward III the Grenvilles of Bideford governed the Island, and later Lord Say and Sele held it for Charles I, by whom it was strongly fortified. About the year 1780 the Island
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passed by purchase into the possession of Sir John Borlase Warren, Bart., who estabhshed a colony of Irish. It has been frequently sold since then. In 1264 a jury valued the Island at ;^ii 3s. 2d. In 1781, however, it sold for ^1,200, and in 1803 was disposed of again for ;^700. The last owner previous to Mr. William Heaven, who died on the Island in 1883, gave 1^4,500 for it.
The dark side of the history of Lundy is its connection with the old smuggling and piratical days. Then the law that " might was right " was known nowhere more surely than on Lundy, and the Island was subject to the attacks of foreigners, who sometimes succeeded and held possession as long as they listed, or until a stronger turned them out. A story of how the Island was once captured by a clever ruse comes down from the time of William and Mary. One morning a ship of war bearing Dutch colours anchored in the roadstead, and an officer, landing, stated that they had mistaken their bearings and begged some milk for the captain, who, he said, was dangerously ill. The boat remained at anchor for some days, and the unsuspecting islanders daily sent milk and comforts for the captain. Then it was given out that the captain had died, and the crew begged leave, if there was any church or consecrated ground on the Island, to deposit the corpse in it, and also asked that all the islanders would be present at the ceremony. Both requests were complied with, and the islanders even helped to carry the coffin to the church. As soon as they had rested it, they were desired to quit the chapel, on the pretext that the custom of the visitors' country forbade foreigners to be spectators of that part of the ceremony which they were then going to perform. As soon as the visitors were alone, however, they opened the coffin and armed themselves to the teeth with the weapons it contained, for the dead captain was but an effort of their imagination, to make the capture of the Island more easy. Rushing out in a body, the enemy, who were Frenchmen sailing under false colours, made
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the islanders prisoners, and took or destroyed all their belongings. So bent were they on spoiling all that they could not take with them, that it is reported that finding a large quantity of meal in some lofts, under which was some salt for curing fish, they scuttled the floor ; and so, by mixing the meal and salt together, spoiled both. After throwing the guns over the cliffs the unwelcome visitors left the Island in a most destitute and discon- solate condition.
It is a matter of history that the Algerine pirates in 1635 were accustomed to use Lundy as a harbour and shelter. This portion of the Bristol Channel was such a happy hunting-ground for pirates and privateers in the seventeenth century that it received the appellation of " The Golden Bay." Among the Borough records of Barnstaple are entries referring to the bringing in of captured pirate vessels, and the parish registers in many parts of North Devon show that church collections were made for the ransom of captives from the Turks, as the Algerine and Tunisian pirates were locally known.
Even the lawful owners of the Island did not always keep themselves within the law. Mr. Thomas Benson, M.P. for Barnstaple, contracted with the Government in 1748 to take convicts to Virginia, but he landed them at Lundy, and employed them in extensive smug- gling operations. The Corporation of Barnstaple pos- sesses a cup given by this same Benson, who had at last to flee the country, and died abroad.
The Church, dedicated in 1897 to St. Helena, is a most beautiful building, with a finely carved alto-relievo reredos. The tower has a peal of eight bells. In 1922 the rectorship, which, formerly belonging to Cleeve Abbey, Somerset, lapsed at the Reformation, was revived. Near the old lighthouse are some mounds marking the site of the old church of St. Helena. Below the church is the principal residence ; and close to it a substantially built Farm-house.
There are three Lighthouses. That on the extreme top of the Island is no longer used as such, for at the crucial
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moment, when light was most needed, the highest part of the Island would be capped with a thick cloud, while other portions of the rock not so high were seldom hid- den. Consequently, two new lighthouses were erected, one at each end of the Island. The shell of the old lighthouse remains as a landmark for mariners. It is used as a dwelling-house in summer.
The few ruins of the Mariscos' Castle are at the south- east corner, not far from the landing beach ; but what is more interesting, perhaps, is Benson's Cave, close by. It was used by the M.P. as a storehouse, but the actual excavation in the cliff was doubtless made at a much earher date^probably by the Mariscos. The granite quarry on Lundy was opened in 1864, and has yielded stone for many important buildings. Like the stone from Hey Tor, of which London Bridge was built, the Lundy granite is of great hardness.
In a cliff at the south-west corner there is a curious funnel-shaped cavity, about 370 ft. deep, called the Devil's Lime Kiln, at the bottom of which is a small passage leading to the sea. Close at hand is a huge conical-shaped rock called Sliutter Rock, on which the battleship Montagu was wrecked in 1906. The rock is referred to in Westward Ho !, and it is an article of belief in this part of the world that if the Shutter Rock were inverted, and placed in what is believed to be its original position, it would exactly fit into the Devil's Lime Kiln. Lying off the north end of Lundy is a cluster of rocks called the Hen and Chickens. Vessels making the circuit of the Island give these a wide berth. In the same neighbourhood, but on the Island, is the Constable Rock, but the most curious is the Templar Rock, on the east side, which bears a marvellous resemblance to the human face.
Seals breed on, and are frequently seen near, Lundy, and one small cave is knowTi as the Seals' Hole.
INDEX
{Where more than one reference is given, the first is the principal.) ILFRACOMBE.
Barnstaple, 36-7
Barricane, 20
Berry Down, 31
Berrynarbor, 22-3
Blackmoor Gate, 34, 31
Bowden, 23
Braunton, 37
Briary Cave, 26
Bull Point Lighthouse, 18
Chambercombe Valley, 22 Climate, xii-xiii Clovelly, 35-6 Coaching, 5-7, 36 Combe Martin, 26-30, 34 Corny n Farm, 22
Distances, 16, 18 Dripping Well, Lee, 17 Muddiford, 37
Fishing, i, 32
Glen Lyn, 35
Golf, I, 5, 17, 18, 21, xiv-xv
Great Hangman Hill, 30-1
Hangman Beach, 30 Heddon's Mouth, 32 Hele, 26, 4 Highveer Point, 32 Hotels and Tariffs, xxi-xxiv Hunter's Inn, 31 Hunting, xiii-xiv
Ilfracombe, 1-15 Access, xi
Ilfracombe {continued) — Alexandra Hall, 3, 9 Amusements, 3-4 Arcade, 9 Bandstand, 12 Banks, i Bathing, 4 Baths, 4-5, 10 Bicclescombe Park, 13 Blythe Cove, 14, 4 Boating, i Bowls, I, 4 Cairn Top, 13 Capstone, The, 11-12, 9 Cheyne Beach, 9 Churches and Chapels, i, 8
15. 16, 17 Church Street, 8 Cinemas, 3, 8, 9 Climate, 2-3, xii-xiii Coaching, 5-7, 36 Concerts, 3, 9 Distances by Road, 16 Drives, 5-7 Early Closing, i Excursions, 16-37 Fishing, i, 32 Fore Street, 9 Gaiety, The, 9, 4 Golf, 5, I, xiv-xv Harbour, 10, 9 Heights, 15 High Street, 8 Hillsborough Hill, 13-14,
15 Historical Note, 7, 19, 20 Hotels and Tariffs, xxii
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Ilfracombe {continued) —
Lantern Hill, ii, 9
Lighthouse, 11
Market, 10
Motor-'Buses, i
Motor Trips, 5-7, 36
Parish Church, 15, 8
Picture Palaces, 3, 8, 9
Pier, 10, 9
Places of Worship, i, 8, 15. 16, 17
Pleasure Grounds, 9
Population, 2
Post Office, 2, 9
Putting Greens, 4, 5, i
Railway Station, 2, 8
Rapparee Cove, 4
St. James's Place, 9
Score Woods, 13
Shelters, 14, 12
Situation, 2
Station Road, 8
Steamers, 5, 35, 36, 2, xii
Swimming Bath, 4-5
Tennis, 2, 13
Theatre, 3
Tors, The, 10, 12
Tors Park, 10
Tors Walks, 12, 10
Town Hall, 9
Tunnels, The, 4, 10
Victoria Pavilion, 3, 9
Water Supply, 2
Wilder Road, 10
Wildersmouth Beach, 10 Inkermann Bridge, 33
Kentisbury Down, 34 Knowle, 37
Lee, 16-17
Lee Bay, 18
Literary Note, xviii-xxi
Little Hangman Hill, 31
Lundy Island, 38-44 .
Access, 38, 39
Benson's Cave, 44
Church, 43
Constable Rock, 44
Devil's Lime Kiln, 44
Distances, 38
Farmhouse, 43
Hen and Chickens, 44
History, 41-3
Lighthouses, 43
Seals' Hole, 44
Shutter Rock, 44
Templar Rock, 44 Lynmouth and Lynton, 34-5
Mannacott, 33 Martinhoe, 33 Mortehoe, 18-20 Morte Point, 18 Motoring, 5-7, 36, xv, xii Muddiford, 37
Parracombe, 34 Pilton, 37
Railway Routes, xi-xii
Sport, xiii
Steamers, 5, 35, 36, 2, xii
Sterridge Valley, 23
Tracy Family, The, 19-20 Trentishoe, 31
Valley of Rocks, 35
Walking, 16-37, ^v, 30 Watermouth, 26, 31 Watersmeet, 35 West Challacombe, 30 Woody Bay, 33 Woolacombe, 20-1 W^ringapeak, 33
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BARNSTAPLE.
Anchor Wood, i6 Atherington, 19-20
Barnstaple, 1-15
Albert Memorial and Clock
Tower, 3 Almshouses, 9 Banks, i Boating, i Bowls, I Bridge, lo-ii, 3 Butchers' Row, g Early Closing, i Excursions, 16 Fair, 15 Fishing, i Golf, I, xiv-xv Grammar School, 7 Guildhall, 11 Historical Note, 11-15 Holy Trinity Church, 7 Lovers' Grove, 9 Market, 8, i Motor-'Buses, i Motor Excursions, 16 North Devon Athenaeum,
8.3 Parish Church, 3-4 Pilton Church, 5-7 Places of Worship, i, 3, 4,
5. 7 Post Office, I Pottery, The, 9 Queen Anne's Walk, 7-8 Railway Stations, i Rock Park, 9 Royal Barum Ware, 9 St. Anne's Chapel, 4-5 Science and Art School, 7 Sports Ground, 9
Barnstaple (continued) — Square, the, 3 Taw Vale Parade, 3 Walks, 16
Barnstaple and Lynton Rail- way, 1-2
Bickington, 17
Bishops Tawton, 17
Bratton Fleming, 24
Braunton, 21-3
Braunton Burrows, 23
Chittlehampton, 18-19 Coddon Hill, 18 Croyde Bay, 24
Dripping Well, 16-17
Georgeham Church, 24
Heanton Court, 22 Heanton Punchardon, 22 High Bickington, 20
Landkey, 20
Motoring, xv
Parracombe, 24
Saunton Sands, 23-4 Seven Brethren Bank, 17 Swimbridge, 20-21
Tawstock, 17, 18
Umberleigh, ig
Wrafton, 22
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BIDEFORD.
Abbotsham Cliffs, 19 Annery, 23 Appledore, 14-15
BiDEFORD, I-I2
Armada Guns, The, lo-il
Bridge, The 2-5
Bridge Hall, 5
Chudleigh Fort, 11 -12
Cycling Routes, 13
Excursions from, 12-24
Grammar School, 9
Infirmary, 9
Kingsley Statue, 5. 10
Library, 5
Long Bridge, 2-4
Masonic Hall, 9
Motor-'Buses, i
Motor Routes, 13, xii, xv
Municipal Buildings, 5
Museum, 5
Music Hall, 9
Parish Church, 5-8
Places of Worship, i
Post Office, I
Quay, The, 9
Railway Station, i
Science, Art, and Techni- cal School, 9
Town Hall, 5
United Methodist College, 9
Victoria Park, 10
War Memorial, 12 Black Church Rock, 31 Blackmouth, 33 Bloody Corner, 14 Bow Bridge, 36 Bowls, I, 21 Buckland Brewer, 24 Bucks Mill, 29 Bude, 40
Chapman Rocks, 32 Clovelly, 25-31
Access, 25
Church, 28, 25
Dykes, 29
Court, 28
Hobby Drive, 29
Eldern Point, 32 Exmansworthy Cliff, 31 Fatacott Cliff, 32 Fishing, 20, i Freshwater Cascade, 30 Frithelstock, 24
Gallantry Bower, 30 Golf Links, 13, 17. I9, 20,
xiv-xv, I Great Torrington, 20-23
Hartland, 33-7
Abbey, 34-5
Lighthouse, 37, 32
Moors, 37
Parish Church, 35-6
Point, 37. 32
Quay, 33
Town, 36, 32 Hobby Drive, 29
Instow, 16-7
LiTTLEHAM, 24
Marsland Mouth, 37 Monkleigh, 23 Morwenstow, 38-40 Motoring, xv, 13 Mouth Mill, 30
Northam, 13-14
Parkham, 26
Pebble Ridge, The, 18
Peters Marland, 21
Shipload Bay, 32
Speke's Mouth Waterfall, 37
Stevenstone, 22
Stoke, 35
Submerged Forest, 18
Tapley, 17 Titchbury Cliffs, 32 Tonacombe, 40 Torridge, The, 12
Wear Gifford, 20
Welcombe, 37 Westward Ho !, 17-19 Windbury Head, 31
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Illustrated Booklets post free, from Passenger Man- ager, L.N.E.R., Liverpool Street Station, London, E.C.2 ; York ; Waverley Station, Edinburgh ; Traffic Superintendent, L.N.E.R., Aberdeen; or any L.N.E.R. Enquiry Office.
IDEAL HOLIDAY COMPANIONS
Thrilling Novels by
Edgar Wallace
At all Booksellers, 2s. net. Pocket Size.
Sanders of the Rmr The Adventures of Heine
Sandi, The King Maker The Secret House
Bosamho of the River Mr. Justice Maxell
Bones in l^ondon The Daffodil Mystery
Bones Jack o' Judgment
The People of the River The Admirable Carfew Keepers of the Kin£s Peace
Ward, Lock & Co., Ltd., ISr London, E.C.4
R.iilwav Routes
1 . Send your Luggage in Advance. For 2/-
per package passengers' luggage will be accepted for convej'ance between stations in Great Britain (with certain exceptions), including the Isle of Wight and Jersey and Guernsey, including collection and delivery within certain radius.
2. Baggage is also Conveyed from home
address to cloak room of destination station, or from starting station to home address, for the sum of 1/- per package.
3. Talie your Ticliet in Advance, and avoid
last-minute haste and worry. No extra charge is made.
4. Compartments may be Reserved
between certain stations and by certain trains upon payment of a registration fee of 5/- per compaitment, and the purchase of a minimum number of four first or six third- class full tickets respectively.
5. Travel mid-weelt when possible. On
Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays the traffic is usually lighter than on other days.
6. Cheap Period and Tourist Tickets are
issued in Suminer months to most Resorts, and Week-end 1 ickets throughout the year.
7. Particulars of Train and Boat Services
may be obtained of Publicity Department, Southern Railway, Waterloo Station, London S.E.I.
H. A. WALKER, General Manager.
Kailway Routes
EXPRESS
SERVICES
between LONDON and the principal towns, bealtb and pleasure resorts, residential districts and agricultural centres of
SOUTH AND WEST
OF ENGLAND:
BEXHILL
BIDEFORD
BIRCHINGTON
BOGNOR
BOURNEMOUTH
BRIGHTON
BROADSTAIRS
BUDE
BUDLEIGH
SALTERTON DEAL DOVER EASTBOURXE EXMOUTH
Also ISLE OF
Including — FOLKESTONE HASTINGS HAYLING ISLAND HERNE BAY HOVE HYTHE ILFRACOMBE LITTLEHAMPTON LYME REGIS LYNTON MARGATE '»■ PADSTOW PLYMOUTH PORTLAND WIGHT, GUERNSEY,
PORTSMOUTH RAMSGATE ST. LEONARDS SANDGATE SANDWICH SEA FORD SEATON SIDMOUTH SOUTH SEA SWANAGE TINTAGEL WALMER WEYMOUTH WORTHING, &c. JERSEY, &c.
Restaurant Car Expresses.
London (Waterloo) tn ^i^ South-West and West of J
Pullman-Car Trains.
Victoria, Charing Cross, London Bridge, &c., to the Kent and Sussex Coasts.
Through Trains fj^^ the North and Midlands
to places on the South-East^PBR and South-West Coasts, and vice versa. For all information regajprig passenger train services, fares, <S:c., apply Chief Commercial Manager, Southern Railway, London Bridge Station, S.E.i.
TEN ROUTES to the CONTINENT
via DOVER— CALAIS NEWIIAVEN— DIEPPE
DOVER— BOULOGNE GRAVESEND— ROTTERDAM
DOVER— OSTEND SOUTHAMPTON— CHERBOURG
FOLKESTONE— BOULOGNE SOUTHAMPTON— ST. MALO FOLKESTONE— FLUSHING SOUTHAMPTON— HAVRE Full particulars of Continental Ser\'ice obtainable from Continental Traffic Department, Southern Railway, Victoria Station, S.W.i.
SOUTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY'S HOTELS
The Company's well-appointed Hotels include : — LONDON : Charing Cross Hotel, Cannon Street Hotel, Grosvenor Hotel
(Victoria), Craven Hotel. DEAL: Soutb-Eastem Hotel. SOUTHAMPTON : South-Westem Hotel.
II. A. WALKER. General Mann^er.
Railway Routes
HOLIDAYS
CONTINENT
ARE ENJOYABLE AT ALL SEASONS
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WHEN? |
WHERE ? |
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January - |
- Swiss Winter Resorts. |
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February - |
- Mediterranean. |
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^Marcl^' - |
Italian Riviera, Daimatia. |
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^|p|^^k - |
- Dutch Bulb Fields. |
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- Cote d' Argent. |
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- Swiss and Italian Lakes. |
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Picardy, Normandy, Brit- |
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tany and B^ian Coast. |
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^PVugust - ' |
Swiss Moufitain Resorts. |
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^September |
Dolomites and Tyrol. |
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1 October - |
' Spain and Portugal. |
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1 November |
Italy, Algeria and Tunisia. |
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December |
Riviera. |
TEN ROUTES to the CONTINENT
For all injormation respecting services apply lo Continental Traffic Department, Southern liail- vi'ay, Victoria Station, London, S.W .i.
H. A. WALKER. General Manager.
Aldeburgh - - Banff, N.B. - Barnstaple - - Birchington- - Bridge of Allan
Brudenell Hotel
Fife Arms Hotel
Imperial Hotel
Bungalow Hotel
- Queen's Hotel
Broadstairs- Royal Albion Hotel Inverness - - - Royal Hotel Margate - Nayland Rock Hotel Ryde, I.W. - - - Yelf's Hotel Tring - - Rose & Crown Hotel Ventnor, I.W. - - Royal Hotel
These are some of the large?- of over loo Hotels and Inns carrying the " Trust House'''' sign. Many are in Holiday coun- try, all at a reasonable tariff. Full List from Trust Houses., Ltd.., Shorfs Gardens, London, JV.C.2. . . Tel. 8844 Gerrard.
Hotel, Hydropathic Establishment
and
Boarding House Directory.
Index
INDEX
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PAGE |
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Aberdovey |
... |
... 14 |
Clovelly |
... 23 |
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Aldeburgh |
10 |
Cohvyn Bay .. |
... 24 |
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Ambleside |
... 14 |
Cromer |
24.25 |
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Banff, N.B. |
10 |
Dartmoor |
... 25 |
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Barmouth |
... 14 |
Deal |
... 25 |
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Barnstaple |
10 |
Douglas |
... 25 |
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Bath |
... 15 |
Dover ... |
25 |
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Belfast ... |
... 16 |
Droitwich |
... 26 |
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Bettws-y-coed ... |
... lO |
Dulverton |
... 27 |
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Bexhill ... |
... 16 |
Eastbourne |
... 27 |
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Birchmgton |
on-Sea |
10 |
Edinburgh |
... 28 |
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Blackpool |
... 16 |
English Lakes |
14, 18, 30 |
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Bognor ... |
... 17 |
35. 3(>. 63 |
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Bo urn em ou |
h ... |
... 17 |
Exmouth |
... 28 |
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Bo\vness-on |
Wmder- |
Falmouth |
28, 29 |
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mere ... |
... 18 |
Felixstowe |
... 29 |
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Bridge of Allan |
10 |
Folkestone |
... 30 |
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Bridlington |
... 18 |
Fowey ... Freshwater Bay |
... 30 ... 30 |
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Brighton |
18, 19 |
Gloucester |
... 30 |
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Broadstairs |
10 |
Gorleston |
... 30 |
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Bude |
... 19 |
Grasmere Harrogate |
... 30 31. 32 |
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Buxton ... |
20, 21 |
. 22,23 |
Hastings |
32, 33 |
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Cheltenham |
... 23 |
Hunstanton |
••• 33 |
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Clcvedon... |
... 23 |
Ilfracombe |
33. 34 |
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PACE |
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Inverness |
... 10 |
Portree |
50 |
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Isle of ?ilan ... 25 |
49. 50 |
Princetown |
25 |
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Isle of Wight 10, 30. |
31. 52, |
Pwllheli |
50 |
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62 |
Khos-on-Sea |
24 |
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Keswick |
35. 3(J |
Rhyl |
50 |
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Leaminqton |
... 36 |
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0 Littlehampton |
... 36 |
Rothbury |
50 |
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Lizard ... |
... 36 |
Ryde |
... |
10 |
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Llandrindod Wells |
36, 37 |
St. Annes-on-Sea |
51 |
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Llandudno |
37. 38 |
St. Ives |
51 |
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London ... ii, v, 38 |
Sandown |
51 |
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Lowestoft |
38,39 |
Scarborough |
51 |
52 |
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Lymington |
... 39 |
Shanklin |
52 |
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Lyndhurst |
... 39 |
Sidmouth |
55 |
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Lynmoutti |
39. 40 |
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Southampton ... |
52 |
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Lynton 40 |
41. 42 |
Southport |
54 |
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Malvern |
42, 43 |
Southsea |
54 |
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Margate |
10, 43 |
Stratford-on-Avoa |
54 |
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Matlock |
43. 44 |
Swansea |
55 |
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Minehead |
... 44 |
Teignmouth |
55 |
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Monmouth |
... 44 |
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Mortehoe |
••• 45 |
Tenby |
54 |
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Mullion |
■■• 45 |
Torquay 56, 57, 58 |
59, 61, |
60, 62 |
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Newcastle |
... 45 |
Tring |
10 |
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New Forest |
••• 39 |
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Ventnor ... |
10 |
62 |
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Newquay |
46, 47 |
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Norwich |
... 48 |
Weston-super-Mare |
O2, |
63 |
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Overstrand |
... 25 |
Weymouth |
... |
63 |
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Oxford |
... 48 |
Whaley Bridge |
25 |
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Paignton |
... 49 |
Windermere ... |
63 |
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Penzance |
... 49 |
Woody Bay ... |
63 |
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Plymouth |
... 48 |
Woolacombe ... |
45 |
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Port Erin |
49. 50 |
Worthing |
63 |
M
Aberdovey — Ambleside — Barmouth
Aberdovey, N. Wales
Adjoining Celebrated i8-hole Golf Course. Elevated Position, facing Sea. S.W. Aspect. Standing in its Own Grounds of 1 8 acres. Garage. 'Phone No. 13.
TOWEFS ?,K1VATE HOTEL.
Entirely under New I\Iana?ement. First-class Family, Tourist and
Commercial. Every Co;iifort. Excellent Cuisine and Courteojs Service. Electric Light Throughout. Moderate Taritl. Appointed .\..\.,'Sl.U and R A.C. Large GARAGE. Tel. 13. Mr. & Mrs. J. E SAVACiE, Resident Proprietors.
AMBLESIDE, Kflilish Lakes-D«XOM'S WANSFELL
-Most Central for \'!:;itors and Coaching. Climbing. Boating and Fish- ing. Motoring. Electric Light Throughout. Every Comfort. Moderate and Inclusive Terms. Listed Hotel tor .A..C.U. and r.T.C. 'Plion-95. Miss niXONT. Proprinress.
Ambleside, Rydal Water-Glen Rothay
PRIVATE HOTEL. In Own Grounds. Overlooking Rydal Water. Gem of Lake District. Adjoins p.^operty of late Poet Words- worth. Elec Light. Lounge & Smoke Room. Baths (H. & C.). Dark Room. Boating, Fishing, Bathing. Coaches meet Trains and Steamers and pass th.' Hotel. 'Phone Ambleside 43 Appointed R.A.C. & A, A. S. E. BEVAN. Proprietor-
PRIVATE HOTEL AND CAFE. Hot Breakfast from 8.30 ; Luncheon from 12.30 ; Grills any time up to 8.30. Motorists Specially Catered for. Bed and Breakfast 8/6. Open All Day Sunday. 'Phone 78 ATnbl5Sid;.
LAKE ROAD. Th^
') Tourists' House. Central for all Excursions, Coaching, Climbing, Cycling, &c. Parties Catered for. Hot and Cold Luncheons. Teas. BAH/VIOUTH. -Situated in O.vn G-ounds overlook
Ambleside-Robinson's Temp. Hotel,
Sea. Facing due South. Bedrooms overlook Sea.
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Guif. Tennis & Croquet. Garage. Proprietress.
Barmouth-Cors-y-gedol & Marine Hotels.
-Both splendidly situated. Facing the Sea, with South-west aspect. E.\cellent Cuisine. Moderate Charses For Terms, apply to .M.-\.\'AGEM
RaTTTinilth — ^^^^ crest, Boarding Establishment. Centre of DdllllUUUI Promenade. Home Comforts. .Separate Tafjles. Moderate Terms. Under the Personal Supervisicm ot
TUl' MISSES WILLIAMS.
Barmouth - MIN-Y-MOR, f;?:^^ S^!J'^!;,^r'Bal;n,^S:
Excellent Cuisine. Separate Tables. Every Comfort. Plus. Tariff. Inclusive Terms from 7^6 daily, according to Season. LLOYD.
Rath I =;
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\ THE PULTENEY HOTEL.
The Most Palatial Hotel in the Queen of English Spas.
Pntronised by the most L^istingHishcd Personages. Combines Artistic Rcliiiement with Homely Comfort, and a quiet atmos- phere of Cultured Repose. South .'\spect, and sheltered from X. & E. winds. Luxuriously and Elegantly ••Appointed. Over 200 jT Bedrooms. The Pulteney is far-famed for its Priceless Collection iL
1- of Paintings by the Great Masters, and Kare Specimens of Itali.iii jT and French Sculptures, Bronzes, etc. 'Phone Bath 1281 (3 lines;. '[ I P. & W. J.^CKM.AX, Managing Dikectoks. |L
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Bath WESTBOIIRNE PRIVATE HOTEL, Sex
First-class. Centrally Situated. Close to the .'Vbbcy, R. C. Church, Grand Pump Room, and Institution Gardens. Fortv Bedro^jms (with Gas Fires, if required). Separate Tables. Smoldng Room. Lounge. Baths (h. & c). Good Cuisine. Moderate Charges. Tariti on application. M. ]. GITTINS, I'roprietress.
Bath-GROSVENOR HOTEL, ^SlJ^lJiZ
Situated. Centre of Historic City of Bath. (Jppo=ite Institution Gardens. Visitors staying at Hotel have free access. Grand Pump Room and Old Roman Baths, three minutes' walk. Gas Fires in Bed- rooms if desired. .Separate Tables. Smoking Room. Lounge, li.iths (h. &c). Home Comforts. Good Cuisine. Moderate Charsras. Tariff from M. J. GriTlXS.
Bath PRATT'S HOTEL,
ON THE SOUTH PARADE. Close to the Baths, Abbey and (rarJens. Terms on application.
'Phone 3!0. L. E. PRATT.
Bath Christopher Hotel Ltd/^c'-^S^
(.lose t'> .-\hlicv. Baths and Stations. Moder.ite 'tariff. Good Cuisnie. Telephone 302. 'Itif Mi-^- KOBI.NSOX, Manageresses.
Bath-Edgar Private Hotel, ';:::-:/^B:tS'c^Z
Pump Room, and Concert Room. I^verv Comfort. Moderate Terms. 'Phone 25. JOHX HOOPER, Proprietor.
Bath SOUTHBOURNE HOTEL'
SOUTH PARADE. Open Position. Close to Roman Bath'--. Pump Kooai, Public Gardens and Amusements. L.\(.elUnt Cni^ine. Moderate 'tariff. 'Phone 603.
Write— The Af.AX.^GERliSS.
BatD-rriVate Bd^. LStab., ■'*Convenien\ for'aiths, Pump'H,'^; •uid Sh.im Castle Golf Links. Refined and Homelike. Smoke Room. Telephone 429. Mrs. W". L.-VWRHXCE, Proprietress.
1 6 Belfast — Bettws-y-coed— Bexhill — Blackpool
Belfast-Robinson's Temp. Hotel, &„^S,'and
Family. Over 40 Rooms. Electric Light. Central for Railways and ■Steamers. A pplv for Tariff. 'Phope PI"!. Tels.. " Robinson'? Hotel."
BETTWS-Y-COED.- ih
Unrivalled Situation Overlooking Ri' Llug^vy. Garage.
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Electric Light Lounge. Own arm and Garden. Personal Supervision, D. K. & H. PULLA.N, Proorietresses.
BETTWS-Y-COED, N. WALES-WATERLOO HOTEL.
Best Centre for Motorinfj. Garage for 30 Cars. Motors tor Hire. Officially Appointed R.A.C., A. A. & M.U. Salmon & Trout Fishing. Shooting. Croquet. Tennis (Dry and Grass Courts). Eowls. Billiards. Elec. Light Throughout. Honie Farm (100 acres) & Garden Produce. Close to Recreation Grounds. 'Phone 18. Tels., " Waterloo. Bettws-v Coed." W. L. ASHLEY, Manager.
BETTWS-Y-COED, N. WALES-CLAN ABER HOTEL.
Beautifully cS; Centrally Situated. Every .4ccom. Family & Tourist Hotel. New Lounge. Elec. Light. Exten. Garage Free to Hotel Visitors. Ex. Cuisine. Own Farm & Garden Produce. Billiards. Fishing Tickets Obtainable. Close to Tennis & Croquet. Terms Mod. Offici.ally Appointed R.A.C., A.A. & M.U., A.C.U., C.T.C. 'Phone 8. Tels., " Glanaber." Mrs. A. EVANS, Res. Prop'tress.
Ad- Golf
Bexhill ALBANY HOTEL
Bexhill HOTEL RIPOSO. ^ fofnS
Links. 'Phone 472. Telegrams, " RipOSO, Bexhill." R. BRAY, Proprietor.
Finest Position on Sea Front. Central. Convenient for Cooden, Schools and Golf Links. Open Throughout the Year. 'Phoiif 121. M. E. SKINNER, Proprietress.
6exliill-oii-Sea-"NETHER LAGGAN"
BOARDING ESTABLISHMENT, Eversley Road. A Comfortable and Reasonable Boarding Housc, a few mniutcs from Station, one minute from Sea, and close to Golf Links. Boarding Terms from 2i guineas, according to Season and Rooms. Mrs, a. S. PLOWMAN. Proprietress.
BLACKPOOL.— 5&6,LansdowneCra<ieeat. Fa
Nr. North Pier, all PIacesofAmusemj?iU_ and Golf Links.
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'Empire, Blackpool.'
Billiards (I-uU-size Tables). Lounge, Ball Room, lic. Apply F. RO
00m,
BERTS
Blackpooi-BROOKLANDS
BOARDING ESTABLISHMENT, 12, Tyldesley Terrace, Promenade.
Delightfully Situated in Centre of New Esplanade. Containing Dining, Drawing and Smoke Rooms, every Window having Sea View. Electric Light Throughout. Excellent Catering. Reason- able Terms. Tels., " Brooklands, Promenade, Blackpool." 'Phone 494. Mr. & Mrs. I. & E DUTTON, Proprietors.
BLACKPOOL (Norbreck) -WEST CLIFF IT^^^^^ILt
Facing Sea. Ideally Situated on Norbreck Cliffs, within easy reach ol all Recreations & Amusements. Terms Mod. Apply Mrs. SOAR.
Bopnor — "Rouriiciuoiitli
17
BOGNOR Hothamton Court S!;'*""*^
]'n\ at? Tennis Court. Kxccllent Cuisine Oj'en Winter anl Summer.
Moderate Teims. 'PliOne No. 74.
BOURNEMOUTH.
WIMBLEDON HALL
rOBlFORTABLE Private ^ Hotel. Pleasantly
Situated a;uonf; The Pines. I'ln,' Loinije. Tennis, Billiards. House Well Warmed in Winter. Own Farm in New Forest. Terms from 3-^ goineas per wee'-:. illustrate 1 TaritT l-rp,-. 'Phone 886.
BOURNEMOUTH.
THE OSBORNE
RESIDENTIAL HOTEL.
I-IIGH-CLASS. Spacious • • Loiinee, Dining iSep. Tables'. Drawing. Billiard. .Smokinjf and Recraition Rooms. 1 min. Pier, Winter & Pleasure Gardens. Close Shops, Golf, Theatre. Tennis. Garage 40 Cars. A. A. Phone 81.
Tels., "Osprey."
Mrs. McDERMOTT &
MISS COYNE.
Rks. Pkoprietressizs,
Bournemouth
"SILVER HOW" and
EVERSLEY."
Guest Houses.
Best Situation
Old
Established
Terms from £2 2 0.
Food Reform at "LOUGHTONHURST,"
West Cliff Gardens.
Mr. .V Mrs. Hl'Mi:, I'roprietors
BOURNEMOUTH (Boscombe)
CLIF T OIM HOUSE establishment.
5, The Undereliff. I rii-liiull:
(Jpposite Piei. .Mol. Trini-. Winter. 'Phon^- 2915. Mr'-
Situated, larin.; ilue South and I'rnate Suites of Rooms during M. .A. Ki:Kl.h;\', Proprictre--s.
Bournemouth ( '?,t^h" HOLLYH URST "
PRIVATE HOTEL. (}rrupyn\f; one of the I-inest Positions. Within a few minutes of I'ier, Winter Gardens, Theatre, Go!f Links and Station. Gas Fires in Bediooms. An H.xcellent and \'aried Cuisine. Sep. Tables. Tenus fio:n 3 Kf. F'?'" week, according to Kn():u~ .S: Season Tel. No 2952. >'rs. C()< IPI-R, Proprietress.
Establisbment
(West Clifl). Terms Strictly Moderate.
Mr. & Mrs. HINE. Proprietors.
iciu-s, 1924-25J
1 8 Bowness — Bridlington — Brighton
Bowness-on-Windermere-St. Martin's
Pte Hotel. Central for Lakes & Pier- Lounge & Smoke Rm. Elec. Ufiht Throughout. Sep. 'I'ables. Garage. Mi£= E. M. WALTERS.
Bnidlington— MANCHESTER
PRIVATE HOTEL. Most Commodious and Up-to- Date Private Hotel on Sea Front. Recently Enlarged <.1- Redecorated. Mag. Sea Views from Public Rooms. rirst-class Chef. Write for Illustrated Souvenir Tariff. Phone 226. Acrommodation for 65 Visitors. E. &.A.GrRXELL. Pmp'tors.
Bridlington-" ASTORIA "
Premier Position on Sea E>ont. Close to Princes Parade and Harbour. Moderate Tariff. 'Phone No. 187. Tels., " Astoria, Bridlington." A. & P. MASSA, Proprietors.
BRIDLINGTON-BEACONSFIELD 'nVrii!.^
Unrivalled Situation on .Sea Front. Open Throughout the Year. 'Phone 264. A. HIT, I,, l'ro,irietor.
PRIVATE HOTEL.
FINEST POSITION ON FRONT. Between West Pier and Lawns. Opposite King lidward Memorial. All Public Rooms face Sea. Full- size Billiard Table (Thurston). Comfortable Smoking Room. Tenns from 4 gjineas. Week-ends from 27/6. Tels., " Berkeley, Brighton." 'Phone a137. Mr. iS: Mrs. L. E. HOOKWAY. Proprietors.
99
Brighton THE BERICELEY
Brighton" RAVENSWORTH
DRIVATF UnTEl 60, YORK road. Four minutes
rniiniE nUlCk| to Sea. central Heating. Bathing Tent on Beach, Free. Excellent & Liberal Cuisine. Sep. Tables. Twenty-one Bedrooms. Terms from 2i guineas. Under Personal Supervision of Mr. cS; ^Trs. KEMP, Proprietors.
Brighton-FERNDALEI^T'rB°.:i's'i.«ENT
23, St. James' Avenue. — Situated in a Quiet and Select Locality. One minute to Sea and Palace Pier. Special Features : An E.xccllent Cuisine, Moderate Tariff, and Maximum of Comfort. Electric Light Throughout. Miss SMYTH, Proprietress.
Brighton— SPA (Private) HOTEL,
MARINE PARADE. Handsomely Furnished and Equipped with Modern Improvements. Tennis. Tea Garden. Ball Room. 30 Spacious and Lofty Bedrooms. Comfortable Lounge. Excellent Cuisine. Moderate Tarih. Car for Hire. 'Phone, Kemp Town 1638. Mrs. Q. SYMONDS, Proprietress.
Brighton— DOOM HOUSE
BOARDING ESTABLISHMENT, Charlotte Street, Marine Parade.
Comfortable and Homely. Cuisine Excellent.
Terms Strictly Moderate.
Mr. & Mrs. C. J. HEGARTY. Proprietors.
Brighton — Bude
19
Brighton(HoYe) LANGLEY HOUSE
BOARDING ESTAB., 118, Lansdowne Place. Well appointed A- Coralortable. Only a few minutes from Hove Sea Fro It. Large & Lofty Bedrooms. Baths (H. &C.). ]-:iectricLisiit Throughout. 'Phone 2330.
BrightOn-KING'S CLIFF MaJine parade. We'll appointed!
Strictlv ModcT.ite Terms. Mr. & ^rr
Phone Kemp Town 417. H. (".. K.'M'rE, Proprietors.
BUPE.
Greiwille Hotel
Open all the year round.
1 ARGEST and only modern equipped Hotel, facing Atlantic.
Situated three minutes from Nortli Cornwall Golf Links.
Lift to all floors. Central Heating. Headquarters R.A.C., A.A.
Spacious Garage. Inspection Pit. Hotel Omnibus meets all Trains.
MODERATE TERMS. .■\pply E. LEX.\RD, M.-v-n.-lgeress.
Wires: " Grenville, Bude." 'Phone 15 Bude.
"EUDE, N. Cornwall. — First-class Family & Tourist. Facing Sea. Own Farm Produce. Appointed R.-^.C "
'Phone 5 Bude. G. BREXDON,
Own Golf Links
Free to Visitors. Resident Proprietor.
BUDE-ERDISTON Boarding Estab.
Facing South. Adjoining Golf Links, Tennis Courts, Beach, &c. First-class Cuisine. Electric Light. Moderate Inclusive Terms. (Special Winter Terms). Mild Climate in Winter. Personal Supervision. Car for Hire. GARAGE. Also " PENTARGAN," Falmouth. Mr-<. r,i:(iKC,I-: HAN'BURV, Proprietress.
Bude, Nortti Cornwall-N O R FO L K H OT E L,
Family and Tourist (Unlicensed). Few minutes from Golf Links, Tennis Courts, G.P.O. and Sea. Central Position. Moderate Terms. 'Buses pass the door to meet all trains. Tels.. " Norfolk, Bude."
Mr^. GILBERT, Proprietress.
Delightful Holiday Readina
Novels by JOSEPH HOCKING
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Buxton
BUXTON.
Telegrams :
' Comfoiiab/e
Buxton.
Telephone
211 & 212
Buxton.
BUXTON HYDRO HOTEL.
Official Hotel to the R.A C, A.A. and A.C.U.
TF it is Comfort, Excellent Cuisine and Convenience of Situation choose ■*- ttie Buxton Hydro Hotel. With over 280 Rooms and Three Large Dining Rooms there is Accommodation for upwards of 400 Guests. If it is Dancing, a Ballroom with one of the Finest Floors in the Country — it it is a "Cure." a Complete Suite of Hj'dropathic and Electric Baths. Withal, a Moderate and Inclusive Tariff.
for full particulars write for Illustrated Booklet ' A Study in Comfort ' to THE I\IAK.'\GEK, Enquiry Office, Buxton Hydro Hotel.
BUXTON.
Ideal Position.
Highly Recommended for Catering and Comfort.
Hydro Electric Baths. Electric Light and Lift.
Tennis. Golf (Sunday Golfi.
Garage. Tariff. Central Heating.
Official Hotel to the A.A. & M.U. A. OLIVER.
Buxton
CRESCENT HOTEL
BUXTON.
Offcally Appointed Hotel to Royal Automobile Club Automobile Association, Motor Union, A.C.U. and Automobile Tourini Club of America.
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-^THIS First-class Hotel occupies the best situation, w' being near the Railway Stations, and connected by Covered Colonnade with the Baths, Wells, Pavilion - Gardens, Opera House, &c. Buxtcn Golf Links one mile from the Hotel. The St. Ann's Well is immedi- ately opposite the Hotel. Table d'Hote at 7 p.m. in the Splendid Dining Room (one ol the tinest in the Kingdom).
GARAGE. PETROL.
Public Dining, Drawing, Lounge, Billiard, Smoking, and Reading Rooms.
ELECTRIC PASSENGER LIFT.
E1.ECTUIC Light in .\ll Rooms.
EXCELLENT CUISINE-
CHOICE WINES AND CIGARS.
C. J. SMILTER, Resident Proprietor.
Telegraphic Address :
"Crescent, Bu.xton." TELEPHONE -No. 20.
TERMS MODERATE AND INCLUSIVE.
Buxton
BUXTON.
The BRUNSWICK ii^fu.,^.
Highly Recommended. Central Position. Excellent Entertaining Rooms. Electric Light Throughout. Central Heating. 'Phone 45. Mr. & Mrs. S. D. GENT.
I^'i ^ ^ 1^ T^C^/^T^T^ First-class Private Hotel,
1 he D£vl>r URi3 st. john's road.
On the Level. Full South Aspect Grounds, overlooking the Gardens.
Standing in its Own 'Phone 541.
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BUXTON CORBAR HOUSE,
HOTEL Mnnf^hP^tAR* Rrl Near Baths and Pump PENSION, Wl«.ni»»IC»tCr nU. Room. Electric Light. Lift. Beautiful Views. Delightful Sunny Garden. Electrical Treatment given on the Premises. 'Phone 205. Apply The Misses ALLARD.
Buxton - UMEHURST HOTEL PENSION,
MANCHESTER RD. Beautifully Situated. S.W. Aspect. Extensive Views. Five mins. fr. Station, Pavilion, Baths cS: Pump Room. Large Garden. Sep. Tables. Lounge. Electric Light. Terms Moderate. Telephone 481. Apply Misses DOUGHTY, Proprietresses.
Buxton — CheUenham — Clevedon — Clovelly 23
CHELTENHAM.
QUEEN'S HOTEL.
THE LEADING FIRST-CLASS HOTEL IN THE GARDEN TOWN.
THE Hotel faces the Promenade, and from the Windows commands an uninterrupted view of the Cotswolds. Comfortable Bedrooms. Beautiful Suites. Cosy Lounge. Billiard Room for Visitors only. Elec. Light and Lift. First-class Cooking and Service. Garase for 40 Cars. Private Lock-ups for 20 Cars. Heated, and with Electric Light in Inspec- tion Pit?. Petrol and Repairs. Open all Night. The Finest Motoring Centre of England. Famous Cellars of Old Wines. Reasonable Terms. Telephones 913, 914. ST.AXLEV G. R. HOLMAN, Telegrams. "Quppn's." Mav^qing Director.
rhpltpnham-THR rn I WYN Private Hotel, I.Bayshill Lawn. Situ- tllCllCUUdill inCi tULXXllI ated in Best Part of Town. Central for
Promenade, Colleges , itc. Lofty Rooms. Comfortably Heated.
'Phone 870. Under Personal Supervi'^ion of Miss ^r. E. C.-\MUS.
Ct-EVEDON.
STANCLIFF
BOARDING ESTAB.
N-s. 1 .V- J.
CH.-\K.\11.\G Situ- ation, in Own Grounds, overlooking Bristol Channel and Welsh Hills. Terms Mod. H.&C. Baths. 5 mins. Pier, 15 mins. Train and Links. 'Phone 4. Tels., "Stancliff." Appiv Mr.& Mrs. F. lEFFERlES.
StancIiiTNo. 2 st.in.l
as to left.
Clevedon-Eastington
Boarding House, Elton Road.
Centrally Situated. Close to Sea & Pier. >;car Bowling Green, is mins. G.W.R. & Light Railway Stations. Cvcle .Accom. Terms Moderate. Apply Misses WILLIS.
CLOVELLY, N. Devon. Hirstcla'is Fain. /.
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Motor
, Meets Trains
at liideford Station from Hotel.
From Clovelly 9.45 a.m., 3.30 p.m.
, 5 p.m. .\. E. BU.SHEI.L, Prop'tor.
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IS
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Colwvn Eav — Cromer
Colwyn Bay THE OSBORNE ^^cJif?
Marine Road. Situated in the Sunniest Part of Colwyn Bay, with Magnificent Views of Sea and Mountains. Near Golf Links, Piers and Pavilion. Every Convenience. Electric Light. Good Cuisine. Sep. Tables. Terms Moderate, according to Season. Special Winter Terms. 'Phone 379. Telegrams. "The Osborne, Colwyn Bay." Write for Tariff. Mrs. T. POLLITT, Proprietress.
RHOS-ON-SEA, COLWYN BAY. "
Scj Kr
30 Bedrooms, most with
Sea \'iew
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RHOS-ON-SEA,,
Close to Hublic
nis Courts. Electric Li^ht
Throug-hout. Near Golf Links Separate Tables.
Tariff on Application. MISSES BACKHOUSE. Pnjprietresses.
Rhos-on-Sea(ColwyD 6ay)-B E L V E DE R E Boarding Establish ment.-SaSnied
House. Close to Pier, Golf Links, and Sea. Most convenient tor Trams to Llandudno and Colwyn Bay. Tariff on application. 'Plione 24Y3. The Misses BURTT and WENSLEY.
Near ^ lni«hmnrf»' ^^^- "°'^' <^
I Colwyn Bay." IIIIOIIUBUI C Bdg. Estab —
Facing Sea & Pier Close Goll Links. Perfect Cuisine. Sep Tables. Hlectric l.ieht Thnne 161 Colwvn P.av. PROPRIETRESS.
RHOS-ON-SEA, ■^^at'" R^os Point "'^- K'surated
on Sea Front. Balcony facing Sea. Mountain Mews. Kr. (iolf Links, Pier. cS:c. Good Cuisine. Sep. Tables. 'Phon» 2fil. PROPRI FTRESS.
CROMER COLNE QUEST HOUSE.
Siluatc.l ui Own (jrouiicl^. thr.-c acres. l*'acing South. Tennis. Four mmutes to ISeach. GARAGE. Easy distance ol three Golf Links and Bowling Green. Electric Light. Separate Tables. Moderate and Inclusive Tariff. Telephone 103. Mi.s .\. M. DOWDIXG, Pioorietress
Gromer-NtWHAVEN COURT, Guest
Li Own Grounds of lo acres. Electric Light. Tennis (Hard & Grass Courts). Superb Ball Rocm. iS Hole Golf ' Course (y minutes). Sea Fishing. Special .-^utuuin & Winter Tenns. 'Phone 104 Cromer, ^^rs. LOI'TS, Managing Director.
rnr\inaii CEA l/IEUf OLDEST ESTABLISHED FIRST-CLASS tlUllitJl wCn VICVIi PRIVATE HOTEL. UnnvaHed lor Cuisine and Comfort. Beautifully Fuiiuihed. lilectiic Light. Moderate IncUisive Tariff. M. ^T^:\V^L■\N. Proprietor.
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Cromer — Dartmoor— Deal — Dover
OVERSTRAND. Np. Cromer. "The Switzerland of the East Coast.'
"OYERSTRAND"
First-class Hotel.
Lhnrmi.iyly .Situated in O-vn I ■nun. ds, adj. Sea & Be.lch. nndst Finest Scenery on Nor- liilk Coast. Five niins. from Royal Cromer Coll' Links. & tonvinieiit for .Sheriiijihani. U.Kunton, and .Miindesley Coif Links. Splendid Cuisine. Tennis. Gra.ss & Hard C ourts. Coif Nets for Practice or Tuition. Croquet. Garage with Private Lock-ups. Inclu. Terms. 'Phone Cromer 196 Tels.. "Overstrand Hotel.
Dartmoor-PRINCETOWN.
First-class PRIVATE
HOTEL. Muit Cen- tral for Tourists. Central'v Heatc-d. Elec. Lisht. Bath= (H..S;C.). Smoke & Sitting KooiiH. P.T.rnial Supervision. Mr.>';:Mrs. 1. R, M.AKTVK, Pmp'tor.:.
Deal-DEAL HOUSE HOTEL.
Incorporating N WARREN HOUSE./'
LEADING PRIVATE HOTEL.
Dircitly nil Sia 1-roiit. Clo.-e tu Piur and Bandstand. Well-appoinled and Comfortably Furnished. All Publir. Rooms facing the Sea. Moderate anj Inclusive Terms, rndcr Personal Supervision of PROPRIETRESS.
Miles !rom Bu.xton.
Un 3Jcal Countiv; iPcnsioii.
Surrounded by the most Changing Scenery in Derbyshire. Southern aspect. Shchering under Eccles Pike over 1,000 ft. above sea level. Tennis. Cronuet. Ciolt. Billiar.Is. Electric Light Throughout. Garage. Moa< nte and IiirhHivo T.iriff. Phone 46 Whaloy;
DERBYSHIRE-Bradshaw Edge, Whaley Bridge.
Zbc S\^caniores.
DOUGLAS, I.O.M.-DODSWORTH'S
Queen's Prom.
ho luMv.- (. h.ir
PRIVATE HOTEL, Metropole Mansions.
TeN.. " nol'-worth, .Mctiopole .Mansions, Poualas." :.s 10 6 per (lav. .Mr. ."^ Mrs. UUIJSWORTH.
nnUf^l* ^nilTHVIFW PRIVATE HOTEL. The Happy Medium UUVCI OUUinflCIf between Expensive Hotels & Ordinary
Boarding Houses. Comfortable Lounije, Dra-.ving & Dining Room;, all lai III,: Sea. Sep. Tables. Elec. Light Throughout. Handy for CIO-.S ( iiannel Boats. Close to Piers, Stations, Shops, &c.
The Hotel holds A.C.U. an.i C.T.C. Ofhcial Appointments 'Phone Dover 289. Tels., "Soiithview, Dover 289" (.-^11 Night Service). Ennuiries, SOLTHVIEW HOTEL, Sea Front, Dover.
The WINDSOR
FOR ENTERTAINING HOLIDAY READING.
26
Droitwich
33XS.O ncT;«7-ion:-
NATURAL BRINE BATHS.
Renowned for Treatment of RHEUMATISM AND ALL ALLIED COMPLAINTS. Illustrated Booklet ot Ireatnients, Charming District, Hotels, &c., from Spa Director,
J. H. HOLLYER, 52, Corbett Estate Offices, Droitwich.
OROITWICH (SPA). The Worcestershire
Brine Baths Hotel,
(lose to St, Amlrews Brine Baths. 150 Rooms (Bedrooms on G ourd Floor). Suite,. Lift. Lounge and Dining KoomEnlarged. Electric Light. Enlarged I'livate Grounds with Hard & Grass Tennis Courts. New l8-hole Golf Course with Club House. Garage. A.A.andR.AC. Open all the Year. Mod. Incl. Terms. Write for Descriptive Tarift.
T. R. CULLEY, M.^nager. 'Phones ; 2 Office, 48 Visitors. Tels., "Worcestershire Hotel.
UroitM
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DROITWICH (SPA).
Ayrshire House.
Private Boarding Establishment.
Standing in its Own Grounds, with Tennis & Croquet Lawns. About 300 yards from St. Andrew's Brine Baths. Cor- ridors Heated in Winter. Excellent Cuisine. Annexe added. Garat^e. 'Phone 37. Mis.s REILLY,
F'roprtetress.
DROITWICH (SPA
ST. ANDREW'S HOUSE.
Leading House. — ■
Electric Light, constant Hot Water supply in Bed- rooins. and Vl-Spring on Box Mattresses. Situated in Beautiful Grounds of 10 acres. Separate Lawns for Croquet, Tennis, Bowls, ^nd 9-hole Putting: Green. (_)wn Dairy Produce and poultry. Lock-up Garages. Moderate Terms.
THE BIGGEST, BRIGHTEST AND BEST MONTHLY
WINDSOR MAGAZINE
D nlverton — East bou rne
27
DulvertOD CARNARVON ARMS HOTEL. 420 feet.)
Quite in the Country. Mvc niilcs Reserved Trout Fishing to Guests. Stag, Fox, Otter Hunting. Hunters for Hire. Own Farm and Dairy Produce. Tennis. Billiards. 'Phone 2. Wire—" NELDER."
DULVERTON.
LAMB HOTEL.
piRST-CLASS. Hunting. Free Fishing to Guests stajnng ^ in Hotel. Hunters; Hacks: Stables; Carriages of all Descriptions. Open and Closed Cars. Garage and Inspection Pit. Billiards. Motor Bus meets all Trains. Li-stcd Hotel to A.A. and M.U. Write for Tariff to the Proprietors, W. D.\RT .t G. C. STAXBURY.
Wires: " Stanbury, Dulverton." Telephones.
DULVERTON, Somerset.
THE GREEN
PRIVATE HOTEL.
r\\\'S Grounds. Pacini; ^^ South. First-class. Beaut il 111 Gardens. Charm- ing Views. Hot and Cold
Luncheons and Teas. Open all the year round. FreeFishiiig to Guests staying in Hotel. Close on Exnioor, the celebrated Loma Doone Country. Garage. Motor meets all trains. Terms
Moderate and Inclusive. Apply to PROCRIETRESS.
EASTBOURNE.— Devonshire Place, oi tti
Up-to-date
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r-^-^'^i^ ""^ Hotel Wolseley
rr-0-^ j--»-'- _ Land.iulette at Visitors' disposal for
■ I* ■ t'' Station, Tticatres, and 3 Golf Courses, 6d. each way.
—"""'■" Central Heatine. Gas Fires. H. & C. Water ci; 'Phones in all Bedrooms.
Eastbourne— GLENDOWER
PRIVATE HOTEL, Burlingfon Place. Near Devon- shire Park, and only one minute from Sea Front. Gas Fires in Bedrooms. Terms 3 gns. No Extras. Mrs. M. HAMILTON MOSS.
Eastbourne LATHOM HOUSE
First-class Private Hotel, Howard Square. Close to Devonshire Park and Principal Amusements. Only one minute to Sea Front. Gas Fires in Bedrooms. Ideal Winter Residence. Terms from 8 guineas, according to Season and Rooms. 'Phone 985.
Tels., " Lathorn House." Miss BRIDGE, Proprietress.
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EdmbiirKh — Exmouth — Falmouth
English Lakes
(See pages 14, 18, 30, 35, 36, 631.
EDINBU.tiiH.
Ceni.aliy situated in Pntice3 St, opposite Prinoiis Gardens.
FIRST-CLASS FAMILY and RESIDENTIAL HOTEL. Tel. No>
S304 (5 lines)
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Telegrams " WELCOME,
EDINBURGH.'
from East
Three Minutes and West Coast Railways.
G. TESTUZ. Manaser.
Exmouth— IMPERIAL HOTEL.
Stands in Pte. Park, facing Sea. Officially Apoointed Hotel to R.A.C. & A. A. Ex. Winter Resort. Enlarged & Refurnished. Elec. Light & Lift. Central Heating. Single Rooms & Suites. High-class Cuisine. Three Golf Links nr. Hunting. Fishing in Private Waters & Sea. Mod. Inclu. Terms. Tels. — " Imperial, F'Kmniith." 'Ph'nip 16.
FALMOUTH.
BOSCAWEN HOTEL
PRIVATE RESIDENTIAL.
COUTH Aspect. Csnt.-e of Falmouth Bay. Five iu:nutts from Station. Elec. Light Throughout. Separate Tables. 'Phone 141.
Wires, " Boscawen Hotel."
UUistrated Prospectus from The PROPRIETORS.
Ik-autilully Situ.itud uii the Promenade. 1', icing the Sea. Close to Concert Gardens & ables. Personal Supervision. " Mi^s M. HARRY. I'ronnetress.
Falmouth, Cornwall PENTARGAN Kl^^
Stands in Own Grounds. South .-Aspect. On Sea I'ront. l)irectly farmg the Bay. Smoking Rooms. Lounge. Bdliards. Full-size Table (Thurston). Croquet. Table dTlote. Separate Tables. Electric Light Throughout. Golf, i8-hole Course, i mile.
Apply Mr. i: .Mrs. J. BANBURY. Prnnrirtors. Tclephnnp 101 FahiKMith^ Also •' ERDISTON." Bude.
THE WINDSOR MAGAZINE
BEST FOR THE HOME. BEST FOR THE HOLIDAY.
Falmouth — Felixstowe 29
Falmouth-The Falmouth Hydro.
stands in Own Grounds of 2 acres. Sea Front, facing South, Magni- ficent View of Bay & Pcndennis Castle. Sep. Tables. Spacious Lounge, Billiard, Smoking & Reading Rooms, all facing Sea. Private Sitting Rms. Recreation Rra. Elec. Lift. Elec. Light Throughout. I min. Bathing Beaches. Tennis. Croquet, Clock Golf, Bowls. Mod. ' Phone 180. Illustrated Tariff apply .\[iss ROW, Managerpss.
SUNNY FELIXSTOWE
FOR HOLIDAYS AND HAPPINESS.
Promenade 2V miles long. Safe Bathing. Boating. Bowls.
Illustrated Guide. Apply, enclosing Stamps, 2d., to W.L., INFORMATION BUREAU. TOWN STATION.
Felixsiowe-CRAND HOTEL. s^^ti^'HS".
class English Cuisine. "A Most Comfortable Hotel." 'Phone 84. Telegrams, "Grand, Felixstowe." RESIDENT PROPRIETOR.
Felixstowe— MELROSE PRIVATE
FIRST-CLASS FAMILY HOTEL. finest
Position. Facing Sea. Dancing and Bridge.
'Phone 103. Write for Illustrated Tariff.
Mr-. T. C. BrrLFK, Propiictress.
ALSO AT 128, King's Road, BRIGHTON. T'honcl701 Bnght..ii.
MJTH BEACH MANSION
PRIVATE HOTEL, En Pension and Reslde.itial. Situated m Kxtensive Flower Garden and Rockery. F^acing Sea. Close to Golf Links, Tennis Courts and Croquet. 'Phone 155.
Tariff on APrlii^ation. i:. ROWKX. Rrsident Prnprietrrsi;
Felixstowe-THE ORWELL HOTEL
The Garden Hotel of Felixstowe. (Five minutes' walk from Sea l-ront and near Golf Course). Delightful Summer Re-idenre. Lxcellent Cooking. Inclusive Tariff. Tennis. Billiards. Stabling. Garage 'Phnn?70. For Tariff, plea-e anplv to the MAXAGER
Fellxstowe-BRANDOIM 'hT/eU
Centre Sea Front. South Aspect. Between Pier, Spa ik. Amusements. Sheltered Verandas. Elec. Light. Good Table. Indoor Amusements. Wireless Concerts. Apply PROPRIETRESS.
Felixstowe-CHATSWORTH EISV^J^ pie^^rnrSLnd'sS
Lxcellont Cuis-iii.'. Sni-km^ l..iurii;c. Garage. Tds., " Chatsworth, l-chxst.iwe." •plintii- 130. .Mr. U Mrs. liAWSOX. I'n.prietors
^HiwlNDSORMAGAZINE
AT ALL BOOKSTALLS, BOOKSHOPS AJSD NEWSAUEMTS.
30 Folkestone — Fowey — Freshwater Bay — Grasmere
FOLKESTONE. Wast Lea3. Liberally Administered.
Well Maintained & Very Comfortable. ■ ^^ |' AT
■" ^-^■"■"^"^^ Terms,
Summer July 1 to Oct. 1. e— 5 gns. .Sprinif & Autumn 4J gns. Daily (unbooked) l-'/6 to 14,6 1-. L. DIU.L.
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Westbourne Gardens.
Folkestone - NORMANDENE PENSION,
Quiet and Select. Ideal Position
for \Vinter or Summjr Residence.
South Aspect. Private Tennis Court. Suites of Rooms from
Octobei to April. Excellent Cuisine. Separate Tables.
Moderate and Inclusive Tariff. 'Phone 95.
Mrs. E. B. NKEDI.EY.
Folkestone LANGHORNE HOTEL
Premier Position on Leas.
Telephone No. 357.
FOWEY-The Esplai^ade h
Private otel.
Good View of Harbour. Ga.rden. Private Landing. Convenient for Fishing, Boating and Bathing. Miss M. R. HICKS, Proprietress.
FRESHWATER BAY, i. of W.
FRESHWATER BAY HOTEL
SUNSHINE. SHELTER. SECLUSION.
Unrivalled Situation and Views. Six Acres Grounds. Lawn to ClilTs. Cuisine and
Cellar, First-class. Own Garden Produce.
PRIVATE SUITES, WITH BATHROOM.
CLIMATE RENOWNED FOR RECUPERATIVE POWERS.
Golf (opposite), Two 18 hole courses.
Through Bookinjjs, including Coach— Waterloo, via Lymington, 3k hours. 'Phone 47.
RESIDENT PROPRIETOR.
Also ALBION HOTEL (summer only) ON SEA FRONT.
Gloucester-Bell Hotel.-^rad4'''i^'oter"^S'5;
appointed by R.A C, A. A. & M.U. Night Porter. Electric Light. Garage. 'Phone 772. Tels., " Bell Hotel, Gloucester."
GORLESTON-OS-SS A.— FMms -Sea & Harbour.
Board -Residence a Speciality.
Accommodation. Elcctr Light. Baths
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Luncheons, Dinners & Phone 118. Prsiil. Supervision. Mrs A
First class BILLIARD SALOON
Teas for Non-residents. , FOWLER. Prop'tress.
Grasmere (English Lakes)-BALDRY'S "MOSS GROVE"
FIRST-CLASS PRIVATE HOTEL. Old-established. Highly Recommended. E.\cellent Catering. Splendid Centre for Climbing, Coaching, Boating and Fishing. Coaches to all parts of Lake District. Chars-a-bancs from Hotel meet Steamers at Waterhead Pier GARAGE. Tels., " Moss Grove, Grasmere." 'Phone 51. Personal Supervision. Mr. & Mrs. E. H. BALDRY, Proprietors.
Harrogate 31
Harrogate
Is Situated on the Yorkshire Moors, on a Tableland with nothing higher between it and the Sea (60 miles away), with no Works or Factories near.
The Air is naturally Pure and Bracing.
The Surrounding Country teems with Beauty Spots and Historical Associations. Roads are excellent for Motoring.
Golf (3 links — Sunday Play. Angling, Shooting, Boating, Tennis, Croquet, &c.
The Entertamments and Music are of a very high order. Alfresco Concerts and Teas are a feature.
The Shops are excellent, and the Social Amenities are all that can be desired.
The " CURE. " is of course second to none the wide w.JiId over and renders ihe G:;rinan and Austrian Resorts absolutely unnecessary.
For details of Hotels, Trains and Harrogate generally, write F. J. C. Broofne, Dept. " W.L." Harrogate.
32 Harrogate — Hastings
HARROGATE AD ELPH I HOTEL.
One ot the Oldest and Most Comfortable Residential Hotels in Harrogate. Near Valley Gardens, Royal Baths and Royal Hall. Handsome Lounge and Dining Room. Beautiful Garden and
Tennis Lawn. Excellent Cuisine. Hotel Bus meets all Trains. Residential Managers, Mr. & Mrs. R. H. THORNTON 'Phones 255 * 256. f fat'' Carporation Hotel. Middksbro ).
Harrogate — W E L L I N G T O N
Ur>Td FIRST-CLASS FAMILY. Telephone 257.
■■'-'■ CI-. Mrs. STOKES.
SUNSHINE &- PLEASURE ^ ALL THE YEAR ROUND.
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Write Box W.L., Town Hall, Hastings, for Particulars of our Twelve Months' Season.
HASTINGS.
QUEEN'S Hotel.
I EADING and Best. Most Central Position on Front. No Trams or Traffic. Headquarters Local Rotary Club.
'Phone Hastings 201.
ITastiiiETS — Hunstanton-^ lit racombo
33
HASTINGS.
FIRST-CLASS HOTEL
e:x:cellent cuisine:.
Finest Position on Sea Front. Away from Trams and Traffic.
Hunstinton-LE STRANGE ARWS
and GtsLF LINKS HOTEL.— Phone 10. Garage. GLEBii : OTEL.— Tlionc 35. „
GOLOEN LION HOTEL.— Phone 18. „
C. ERXEST GRAY. Proprietor.
ILFRA_OtyiB-.
Sl!^£3?£3 XS.3:.^.X.
n^IIIS Well-known, High-class PRIVATE ■^ HOTEL, facing Sea, contains 100 Apartments. Lounge. Billiard and Ball Rooms. Elec;ric Li^tit and Lift. Separate Tabiei. Frequent Dances and Entertain- la Ills Golf Links 11 miles.
Mo-lcrate Inclusive Tariif from
L. P.\RSONS.
ILFRACOr.IBE.
MOONT A
PRIVATE HOTEL.
Di;LU,il ll-'l 1.1. ^■ Sit- uated, mimnl lately on Sea-edge, and com- manding a Magnificent View of the Channel. Close to Pier and Cap- stone Parade. li lectrx Light Throughout. Moderate and Inclusive. Tcrm^. .'\pply Propriftors, Tli^ Misses CORDON iS: Dt'XSTKR.
^■■■■"Smiiii
lifracombe Pnvate Good -class Boardrng; House. beatield Terrace.
ILLUSTRATED TARIFF. TERMS STRICTLY MODERATE.
Mk. cV Mrs C BKAN.
Series, I9.2.|--5J
Ilfracombe
ILFRACOMBE, N. Devon. — First-clajs Family Boarding Estab
Over 2,300 Keferiince; in V Magnificem Sea Si Land \'i New
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44 licdroom^i. Baths. Balconies, rjec. Light, parate Tables. Billiards. Comfort. Suciabi.ity- -. TlinnclS^ M'. K. HOSTHK.Proprietnr.
llfraoombe-'Orosyenor' s^
Private Eotel. First-class En Pension. One Minute Sea & t'arade. Spacious Public Rooms. Lounge. Table d'Hote. Separate Tables. Keplete with everv Comfort. Moderate. Liited Hotel R.A.C. and M.U. Garage. Tel. 63. Miss \V. L. PICKETT, Proprietress.
BOARDING ESTABLISHMENT. Situated on Level. Adjoining famous Torrs Walks and Tunnels, Bathing Beaches. Smoke Kooia. 40 Bedrooms. Good Cooking and Attendance. Unique Position for Winter Residence. Telephone 119. W. L. CHADDER. TOURI.XG CAR FOR HIRE. OWN GARAGE.
Ilfraconibe-
FAMILY AND COMMERCIAL. (Unlicensed.)
Central. Facing Sea. i minute Parade. 70 Rooms. Good Cuisine. Inclusive Terms. Illustrated Tariff. 'Phone 40 . Entirely New Management.
Boarding Estab.
Overlooking Sea and Capstone Parade. Near Pier, Steamer Landing and Bathing Beaches. Good Cuisine. Liberal Table. Moderate Terms.
C. i:. MITCHELL. Proprietor.
ILFRACOMBE.
" CECIL " PRIVATE HOTEL.
FINEST Position on Sea Front. Adjoining Capstone Parade and Pavilion. Magnificent Sea Views. Excelient Cuisine. Table d'Hote daily. Separate Tables. Garage. Moderate Tariff. Private Motor Cars for Hire. 'Phone 121 F. A. KNILL. Proprietor.
Ilfracombe MONTPELIER HOUSE ^'^UyfT^'
BOARDING ESTAB. -Ma'inihcently Situated. Commanding Un- intemiptcl Sea View. Central for Town, Beaches and Parade. iJinin-j and Drawing Room, with Balcony facing Sea. E'/ery Comfort and Liberal Table. Terms 2 to 3J guineas according to Room and Season. Mrs. R. STANLEY SHORT, Proprictrc-s.
ILFRACOMBE-THE GILBERT I'^/o'^ Ars'^^N^H^ ll^Jll::
Pleasantly Situated, facing Sea, Capstone Parade, ]'avilion,H< Mch & Pleasure Ground, i min.Pier. Reading, Writing, SmoKe & Billiard Rooms. Garage. Sea View Balcony Bedrooms & Pte. Sitlin.i; Rixmus. 60 Bedioonis. H. & C. Baths. Noted for its Liberal Table, lilcc. Light Throughout. Mod. Terms. Illus. Tariff on Apiiliration. Late Prop'tor., J.Trelease. W.m. BL.A.XOY BROKENBKOW, Prop'tor.
Keswick
35
Isle of Man
(See pages 25, 49, 50)
Isle of Wight
I See pages 10, 30, 51, 52, 62)
JEC 03 S "\^r I C :iaZ— (English Lakes).
Keswick-Quesn's Hotel
Is one of the most Up-to-date and Best-eauipped Hotels in the District. CSTAKLISHED over 200 years. Situated in tlie most commaiidiii; ■-' position in the town, and within a few minutes' walk of Dcrwent water Lake, Gnit I. ink';, qivl Fitz Park. Tlie Hotel has been honoured with the patronage of the late King Edward VII (when Prmre of W'ale^). and other Royal PersonaLjes. Special Winter Tfirifi.
Well-appointed Four-in-hand-Coaches and Motor Chars-a-bancs leave Hotel daily to all parts of the Lake District. Garage for 100 Cars on ttia Premises. Oincially appointed Hotel for A. A. and M.U.
Proprietors— THE LAKE DISTRICT HOTELS, Ltd. Telephone 23. Mr. & Mrs. H. E. REVELL, Managers.
First-class. Magnilicent \'iewi of Lake Derwentwater & sur- roundiui; .Mountains. Close to Lake, Golf Links, Fitz Park, &c. Re- commended M.U. and A.A. Headquarters. C.T.C. The well-known Lake District Coaches, Ltd., & Motor Chars-a-banos leave Hote' dailv lor all parts. Special Winter Tariff. GARAGE for 100 Cars. Tels., •' Caterer, Keswick." 'Phone 54. Apply .M.ANAGliKIiSS. Proprietors— THE LAKE DISTRICT HOTELS. LID.
KESWrCK.
The centre of Lakeland. Derwentwater, Bassenthwaito, Loweswater,Wastwater, Thirl- mere, Grasmere, Rydal, Win- dermere, Ullswater &i Coniston Lakes, &c., all easy of access. —Make the KESWICK HOTEL your Headquarters and visit the above Lakes by Coach or .Motor. Inclusive Rates. Free Golf Course. Per- fect Sanitation. Illus. Tarill on application. Hotel — Mr. &, Mrs. WIV..LL KcM.l.nt l'r.,,,ri.r- tors Coaches and Motors— WIT.LL8 COACHES & MOTORS. LTD I'll .n. 20
KrSWICK HOTEL.
KESWICK.
MILLFIELD
PRIVATE HOTEL.
STANDING in Own Grounds. Few min- utes' walk from Lake Derwentwater. Close to Public Tennis Courts ani Bowling Greens. Golf
Links, 5 minutes. Railway Station, 5 minutes. Garage near. Under the I'eiscnal Supervision of
Mrs. FRANCIS. 'Phone 99. Proprietress.
^6
Keswick — I.eaminfrton — ^Llandrindod Wells
KESWiCK iEnglish Lakes). Fiist-ciass. Old Established Central SituAtioii. CI se Lake, Park. Golf Link &c. E.ectric Light. Sep Tables.
UB
C^"^
hba^
-'To-^J^
Mutor& Coach oils toall pait:^. Motors Hire. Garnge. Petrol Personal Supervision. Tariff apply E. W. ROBERTS. Prnpri. tor.
KESWIC .—Most Central. Easy Distance to Golt Links Twentuatcr. Elec. L
FitzP.rk&l Throughout. R.A.C. 'Ph.m!
E'S
(\iw\\t52^
Sp.
Uii'ing Seison Motors & Coaches Leave Hotel fovall Parts of Lake District. 'Busmeots i E. GTLLES'IE.
,-il ■«■
Situated amid Beautiful Mountain Scenery. Close to Lake- Derwentwater. Recommended. Miss A. MILLER, Proprietress.
.eamm^ton-lo^hians Boarding House, "-Tar^Tm";
Room. Baths Mfulerate Charws
ud Gardens
Mr;
Comfortable. Good Table. A. NETTLE Y, Proprietress.
I flominrtiAri i '»#»?tin£i Private Hotel, Newbold Terrace. — Over- LCttIllldf.tUl| — t-r^-ipfline looking Jephson Gardens. One minute from Pump Room and Baths. Lounge. Garage.
Applv f'>r Tci-ms. Mrs. AS'^INDHR. Propr'etress.
LriTLEHAMPTO.^ B^ACH HOTEL.
STRICTLY GROUNDS.
FIRST-CLASS. FACINfl SEA,
STAND INQ 'Phone 55
G. S. STACT-:V.
Littlehdinpton (wrn'Je'^ReUrthTHE WHITE HOUSE.
Fmcst Position on Sea Front. Close lieach &G0I1 Link--. Inexp,-nsi\-e
& Comfortable. See Advertisement on back of Illustrated Guide to
Lit«[c),in,nton. 'Phone PS. Applv to th° FlxCM'R ' 1-TK P'^S.
First- class Sea Front, Facing South. 'Phone 42.
Littlekinpton - '
Private Hotel.
SOUTHLANDS
Apnlv M'st; WnoIV M,Tnn."errss.
KYNANGb b»AY
Beautifully Situated, and com- manding Magnificent Views of.
the rugged Cornish Coast. Write for Terms. Early Season Teniig.
from 3 guineas. Under the Personal Supervision of
Mrs R. RO\VF, I'm'^ri,!.-, .:s.
THE LiZARD, CORNWALL Boardiiis: House.
LLANDRSNDOD WELLS.
BRYNAWEL HOTEL
HIGH-CLASS. FINEST POSITION.
Accommodation for 150 Guests. Electric Lift.
Golfing and Fishing Centre. Tennis. Croqnet. Billiards.
TcI, 27.
JEFFREY JONES, Managing Director.
I.landrindod Wells — Llandudao 37
LLANDRar^DOD WELLS, Mid Wales The GWALJA
Ur|YC| Health and Pleasure Resort. The Largest Unlicensed
nU ■ Clai iioii'l HI I.laiulruulod. I.ouugcs, Ladies' Drawiii!» Ivnin, Sill )ke Ko'jin. liilli.i'd Room, (two tables), Recreation Room for Uaiices, Concerts, &c. Near Station, Post Office, Golf, Tennis, Bowls, and Mineral Sprinss. Tariff on application, Five milcA of goo 1 Trout Fishinj for Motel X'isito'-s.
Llandrindod Wells K I INS G S L A N D ^^.^^e.!"
l-arin,L; (.■'.iiinion. Tcrnis : .-Vnnl to luii'-. 3' 4'. uii^., <">thir iponths 4 5,14ns. 'I'liuii.- \o. 67. Mi>s i:UI 111 \\AI.".1':K. I'ropri'trcss.
Llandrindod Wells— BRAMPTOIM Private
HfksPl For Home Conilorlj. ""^'^'' 'Phone 66.
ij'ton Hotel. . THOMAS.
LLANDUDNO
Centrally Sihiafed, Facing Sea
Electric Light, Two Lifts.
Pnvate Garage.
140 Room?. 'Phone 391(3 Imes)
HOTEL
Terms and Full Particulars—
S. CHANTREY, Mana^ins Director.
LLANDUDNO. — First-class. Central Position. Close to hier, faviiion & Golf Links. Ex, Cuisine, Electric Liiiht. He.ited in
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Bilharil & Smokins Rooms. Phone 285 Special \^ inter Terms. Tarirr apply MANAGERESS.
•jji^Ji:
Uccreation Room, r.illiards, Ulectric Lift. Tel, Add " Middwood."
i-ucmg the
Near Tennis Courts. .■\ccomnicdation tor 200 \'isitors. •Misses .\fl|iULlilUN & WOOD.
Llandudno "Ormescliffe"
L'lrsl-iias!- t . -lOlei. Facin.{ Sea. Open all the Year.
.\( (oni. 250 \'i-it'irs. H,il!r"i>in Dtneini; & Wi.'-cless Concerts Each Lvtnini'. Billiards. ' Phone 178. Mr. «: .Mrs. .•\LLLlN SMFni.
38
Llandudno — London — Lowestoft
Llandudno-
Promenade, facing Sea. Splendid View of Bay and Omies. Electric Light. Picnics, Motor and Coach Parties arranged. Terms Moderate. Mrs. K. L. PARRY.
LSandudno-FOUR OAKS Boarding Estab.
(Temperance). Central Promenade, opposite corner to Hydro. Back entirely open to Mountains. Easy distance Golf, Pier, Garage, Tennis and Theatres. Sep. Tables. Excellent Cuisine. Open all the year. Xmas Festivities. Personal Supervision. Good Fires in Winter. Good Ventilation in Summer. Telephone 306. For Terms applv Mrs. SIMPSO>J YATES. Proprietress.
9 HIGH -CLASS BOARDING ESTAB.
Central. One minute from Sea, Promenade, and few minutes from Pier and Pavilion. Electric Light Throughout. Separate Tables. l-or Tariff, applv .Mrs. SPRIXGTHORPK, P,-oprietre;5.
9 PRIVATE ' HOTEL,
Gladdeaih Avenue. Sonth-wost .Alport. jk minutes from Prom- enade and Pier. Near Three Golf Link;, Recreation Ground and Tennis. Mountain View. Liberal Table. Every Comfort. Reasonable Terms. Special Winter Terms. For Terms apply Telephone 183. Mi^s RICHARDS (late West End Hotel).
Llandudno-The Sliakespeare ^tlinstl': k^'^.
Palladium, &c. Pte. .■\partments, Oct to June. Elec. Light. Liberal Table Personal Supervision. Mrs. W. L. EDW.ARDS, Prop'tress.
THE CRESCcNT"
LLANDODNO-
PRIVATE HOTtL.
Sea. Own Teniis.
•o.-je OF TH
Lawn I'ree.
El
BEST." I'rnin, ,1,1 ir Facing Tel. 274. W. L. .MUKAX.
Rus?ell Square
' 7 Hotels. 2,000 Rooms. Cent<a! Position. Room Fitted 'Vj \ Hoi and Cold Water. Bat".:. Breakfast and Service from '/
iSJBBSBSIBlBiSSaiB^KgBaiSESiaH
Lowestoft — London — I.vniinston — L\ nniouth
39
Lowestolt-'' ESPLANADE HOTEL. "-f.r-fT.
ii-oias3 fnvaie tioiel.
'osilioii on sea Irr.nt. Tr!. 293. Anplv l'rni)ri.>tor^. Mr. ,S: \trs. IKWKR.
London
(Sec also papcs ii and v in front of this Guide)
Lymington The ANGEL HOTEL.
TEA ING FAMILY AND COMMERCIAL. oniri IJv .Aproi.ted RA.C. 'Phone Srt W. J. MCLTHAM. "Proprielor.
Lyndtiurst ( Hants) "Crown Hotel " ^iTtesid'eS
(Rebuilt 1897). Fariii;,' So\itIi. IHcctric Li<?ht. 60 Bed and Sitting Rooms. Large Gardens. Motor Garage. Livery Stables. Telephone No. 13. Telegrams, " Crown, Lyndhurst."
LYNMOUTH.
TOF5S MOTEL.
B
i'.AUTIFULLY Situated lu Us U\\ a ■..luuu ..-, up, and facing the Sea. Lu.xurious ball
Billiard Room.
Tels.
. leet Room. Garage. Hard and Grass Tennis Courts. W. & R. RIUDELL, Proprietors. ' Tors, Lynmouth." 'Phone 47 Lynton E.xchanse.
LYNMOUTH, N. Devon.
The BATH HOTEL
IJXDER Entirely New Management and Own Personal Super- vision. Nearest Hotel to and Facing Sea and Harbour. Excellent Cuisine. Mod. Tariff. Garage. 'Phone 28 Lynton. Telegrams, "Lord, Lynmout'i." Tariff, apply J. W. LORD.
4°
J yamoiuh — Lj-n'on
I.YNMOUTH, NORTH DHVON.
Best
"Sr ISJ J3 .^ SLmJES sex O 1J7 xs x«.
Tlie Oldest Established Fir',t cK>ss I uuil\ II. r, 1 Position ill Lyiuuouth. Two mmuies from and Overlooking Sea
Nearest Hotel to Watersmnet, Dfionc Vallev, and Most Central tor Devon
and Somerset Staghouiuls. G.W.Rly. Motor Coaches call at llotei.
Ejrtensive Garage with all facilities adjoining Hotel. Petrol.
Private Lock-ups.
Officially appointed to R.A.C. & A.A. Salmon, 1 rout and Deep Sea Fishing.
Golf, Bathing and Tennis. A. W. G.-\VDON. Proprietress.
LYNMOUTH ... Devon.
HOUSE <Z%7elY
Central lor V/atersmeet,
Doone Vallev, and
All Places 01 interest.
Cose to Sea an>l Cliff Rail- way connecting Lyntoa. M][iehead Coach Passes
Door. Touring Car for Hire, and fo
all Places oi Interest. Mi;s. T. \V. SLAXN'.
I'UOPRIETRESS
I els.. " S'ann. Lynmouth."
LYNTQN, N. Devon.
HlGH-CL.'VSS Boarding Establishment. Beautifully situated in Own Grounds, on the sunny side of a hill, about 400 feet above, and facing Sea ; commanding Finest N'icws o: S.'_a and Coast, Ixiver Lyii, and far-famed Watersraeet Valley. Tels., "Fairholm." .Also
OLDFST F.stablishcd Boarding House in Lvnton. Every Comlort. Moderate Terms. H. & C. Baths. Electric Light. Terms on application to— The Misses COUKTEEN & MADDOCKS. Tels., "Waterloo, Lynton."
Lvnlon
41
LYNTON (N. Devon).
ROYAL CASTLE HOTEL
In the LOil/iA D03NE Country.
nice. Lifjlit Throiisliout. Tabled'Hote. Rending aii.i Drnwins Roo'iis. Newly constructed Lounse.witli Loveliest Views iii England. Putting Course. Tennis, En Tout Cas and Grass Courts. Motor Coaches O.iily lu .\lineii>;aa and f»r H.tcursions Stag & Fo.x Hunting. Fishing. Motor Garage. Motierate rantl. 'Phone 48. Telegrams, " Castle, Lynton " TOM JOXES, Proprietor.
LYMTON, N. Devon.
IMPERIAL HOTEL.
Magnilitcnt Position. 600 ft. above Sea. Charming Views of Sea & Headlands. Fully Licensed. Heated Throughout. Elec. Light. Garage. Wcll-appoiutcd Hotel forComiort, E.K. Cuisme & .Mod.Tariif. Tels., "Imperial, Lynton." "Pnone 50,
42
Lvnton — Malvern
MALVERN.
ALDWYN TOWER
Boarding: Establishment.
FINEST POSITION IN IVIALVERN.
BEAUTIFULLY Situa!ed. 600 ft. above Sea Level. Convei^iont for Town ai\d Hilli. Balcony commanding Magnificent \ lews. Higlily R,"co nnipnded. Electric Light Garage Near.
Mrs. FRED. J. SMITH,
LYNTON, N.Devon.
NORTH CLIFF
Privato Hotel.
r-lRST-CL.^SS. Situated in r the Famous North Wa'k. Rebuilt and Redecoiated. Sanitation Perfect. Stands in Own Grounds, 500 leet above and faring Sea. I lectric Light Throughout. W. F. SLOUGH,
Proprietor. Tcls., " N'orthclilT, Lvnton."
^A^;
'Phone 30^ Mai
Proprietress.
PRIVATE HOTEL.
Situated in Oun Grounds. Nearest Hotel to Srarion, Manor Park, Malvern Collofje for Girls. S. Aspect. Elcc. Light. Heated Throughout. Ten minutes Hills, Paf)lic Gardens, Churches and Golf Links. Handsome Lounge. Ex. Winter Home. Write for Descriptive Tarilf with T-ocal Views. Garage Near. Apply— 'Phone 91.
Mrs. T5RAY HAK TLAN'R.
fUP'JLiCENSED). Most Convenient for Visitors and Tourists. Replete with every Comfort. Moderate Tariff. Also Restaurant in connection. TTot^'vCold Luncheons Daily. Teas, &c. H. G. P.ERRY, Pmn.
Malvern MONTROSE HOTI
FIRST- CLASS.
rseautifully Situated in Own Grounds. 400 feet above Sea level. Central Heating. All Rfodcni Improvements. Close to Hills, I'ublic Gardens and Golf Links. Special Terms for Winter Months. Illustrated Tariii. Apply Mrs. J. \V. VAUGHAN,
'Phone 335. Resident Proprietress.
Malvern — Margate — Matlock Bath 43
Malvern SIDNEY HOUSE l°»'^r'
Heaiitifully Sit\iated. Magnificent Views. Close to Hills, Public Gardens and Golf Links. Electric Light Throughout. Private Car ior Eire. Garage Opposite. Moderate Terips.
Under the Personal Supervision of the Proprietress,
Mrs. A. ED\V.A.RDS.
Malvern-Grosvenor ^^r^^^'f^'t:;^^''''^^')^.
Ho.ited in Winter. .M.igniticent vicw> of tlic Hills and Severn Valley. 'Fhon^lSS. Mr<. WALWYX V Ari-:S Pro-^rietre^^
CLIFTONYILLE (Margate)-Hotel Florence.
First-class Family & Residential. (Fully Licensed). Finest Posi- tion on Sea iTont. Spacious Ball Room — Unsurpassed Floor. Large Dining Hall, Comfortable Drawing and Reading Rooms, and Billiard Room. Lift to all Floors. Open all che Year. 'Phone 118. Telegrams, " Hotel Florence, Margate."
Mr. & Mrs. \V. ,^.\^^lESO^■.
Margate, Ciiftonville — A L fVa A R
f^f^lIDT PRIVATE HOTEL. Opposite Queen's \^\^y^r\ I Hotel. Sea View. A High-class Boarding Est'iblishimrit and a Home trom Home. Cuisine E.xccllent. Terms from 3 to SV guineas according to Season and Room. Garage adjoining. IJnder the Personal Supervision of the Tel. Xo. ^^-^^gat^. 747. PROPRlEl KKS'i.
Margate, GSlftonvHSe — THEDDEN
f^S?^!l\lf^^ PRIVATE HOTEL, Nor!oll£ Road. One Var^^^S^W)!— iiunutc S.a, Ov.il and Hath-n,'. First- class TUrougbout. Modern and Moderate. Large Public Rooms. Dancing. 1 crnis from 3 guineas per week. 'lei. No. 479. ihe .Mi-sfs DALE & BAILEY. Resident Pronr e rpsspc.
MARGATE, CLIFTONYILLE-Northdown Parade
U^tfkl GOOD-CLASS FAMILY. St<aciou^ l.ounje and nU9.Cl> Dmin- Hall. 'Phrnic 402. K. T. F V-^hUM. Lxn.
MATLOCK. THE
LELYBANK HYDRO,
LTD.
Hr.icins. Health & Pleasure Resort the year round Beauti- ful Ballroom, Spring Floor. E.xtensive Grounds. Ex. Cui- sine, lilec. Light Throughout. Central Heating. All Hydro Baths Free toV;sitors. Garage, Six Lock-ups. Tennis, Bo-.vls, CroTuet, Billiards. Terms .Moderate. 'Phone 81.
.Mr. .S: Mrs JOHX KAY.
Managlrs.
MATLOCK BATH, DERBYSHIRE -NSW BATH HOTEL.
fader Entirely New Management. Listed .■\..'\. Garage. Thermal Swimming Bath. F^xcellent Cuisine. Special Attractions for the Winter Season. Tariit on .Application. 'Phone, Matlock 39.
Tels., " New Bath, Matlock Bath." PROPRIETOR. .
44 Matlock — Mineiicad — Monmouth
S IV! E D L E Y'S
Hifitropatliic EstaMisliiiieiit,
MATLOCK.
♦
®NE ol the largest and most complete in the Kingdom, extensively nationiscd all the year round by Pleasure-seekers as well as those requiriiig Hydropathic Treatment. Daily avernCTo of Visitors, over 240. An unrivalled suite oi Hydrofiaihic Baths, including an un-t^-date installa- tion of Eiictncai Appliances. OonsaltinT and itesiUtnt Physi ians. A large Staff (upwards of 50) of trained male and lemale Nurses, Masseurs, and Bath Attendants.
B'.atlock Golf LinI s — 18 holes, within 15 minutes' walk.
TERMS ; — 13'- to 16/6 per day, inclusive, according to Bedroom, no extra charge for Turkish and Ordinary Hydropathic Baths.
Illustrated Prospectus on application to
H. CHALLAND, Managing Directok.
Telegrams — " Smedlevs, Mallock." Telephone .Vy. 1?
MINEHEAD, SQM.
I=R O lYI E N A D E .
IMMEDIATELY Facing Sea. Commanding Extensive Views of the Bristol Channel, North Hill, Moors, Golf Links, S:c. Balcony extends eitire length of Hotel. Electric Light. Baths (H. & C). Private Sitting Rooms if Required. Under Personal Supervision. Nearest Kolel to Golf Links. 'Phone 144. Telegrams, " Strand Hotel."
Tanli on Application. 1'. STEVENS, Proprietor.
MonmQyth BEAUFORT ARMS HOTEL
l-irst-class Tourist House. Finest Garage Iti tlie Wye Valley. Table d'Hote 7.30 p.m. Sep. Tables. Finest Cuisine and \N'ines at Moderate Charges. Tclcphniic 10 Monmouth. Miss A. RAINBOW, Manageress.
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Mortehoe— Mullion
45
Mortehoe, N. Devon.
,^> ,-.-
i^»
"WATtRSMEET"
First-Class Private h otel
SOL' ni Asin-<t. Chiirm- iiitj'y ^ini.i.c.1 ill Ovn Grounds, which join Sea and tiir famous Wuolacimibe Sands, wiili piivate palb theieto. Sunny, Bra>-ing. Good Balhina. Electric • Light. Central Heating-. Gulf. 18 hole<i. Ovw Tennis, Cuisine anil Service Excel,
Own Car. Garage.
Telephone: WoolatouibeS.
Telt grams: " Watersnieet,
Mortehoe.'*
For Illustrated Taritl apply
A. h. CHUGG,
PROFRI'FTOR.
MOHTE Ofc.
WoolacouiDe Bay, N Devon.
RATHLElGi^^
First-class
Boarding Estai^lishment.
CLOSli to and Fating St i Few minutes from Tenm- and Golf. Comfortably I'u nishcd. .Separate Tables. Gc Cooking. Nursery Aleals Childien (under I2 years o with Nurses Inclusive Ten from £3 3s. Res-dent Proprietc .Mr. & Mrs. S. KEf.l
MULLION, CORNWALL.
POLDHU HOTEL.
^ Lar?e;t in Dis- trict. FUectric Light. Clo e to Sea. Good Beach, bathing and Foat ns. Close to and Nearest to Splen- did Golf Links. itS
holes . IViotor Garage.
Station — Weliion. .A.i)p;y .M.-\N.AGF-R.
MULLION, South Cornwail
■piRST-CLASS. Stands in its Own Grounds of 4 acres. -*- Replete in all Modern Appointments. Large Lounge. Electric Light Throughout. Facing Sea. Good Boating and Fishing. Splendid Sands. Near Excellent Golf Links (18 holes). Visitors driven to same free at stated tunes. Garage. Terms Moderate. Apply IMAXAGER.
46
Newcastle-on-Tync — Newquay
New Forest
(See page 39)
Newcastle-on-Tyne ST.
64 to 68, OSBORNE RD., ■ JESMOiVD.
This Commodious Kotel forms an Up-to-date Residence with con- veniences of ordinary Hotel. Garage near hotel. Tels., " SL Margaret's, Osborne Road, Newcastle." 'Phone ^.53 Jesmond.
Newquay, Cornwall.
ST. KUMUN'S
Private Boarding Hous3.
BEAUTIFULLY situ- ated, facing tlie Sea. Adjoiuiut! Beach & Go if Lmks. Private J'ennis Courts. Garage, lenus Moderate. 'fuone 7S. AlRs. hJHNS.
Proprietress.
NEWQUAY, CORNWALL.
TREGWELLA
HIGH, Bracing Situation. Magnificent Sea View. A few minutes' walk from Sands, Golf Links and Tennis Courts. Separate Tables. Good Cuisine. Moderate and Inclusive Terms. Personal Supervision. Apply Miss E. CHALMERS, Propriktkess. Telegrams, " Tregwella."
NEWQUAY. CORN\A^ALL..
NARROW CLIFF
Private Hotel (^o'p'IneV)
Sea View. Close to Beach
and Station. Electric Light.
Tennis Courts. Certificated
Sanitation. Terms Moderate
and Inclusive. Garage Near.
Special Winter Terms.
Mrs. VERRAN,
Proprietress.
Kew I'-iay
47
NEWQUAY.
"TOLCARNE"
PRIVATE HOTEL.
Facing Sea and Hathing KciLhcs. BALLROOM. GARAGE. Finest Entilish CaiLT.njT. Most Reasonable Terms. Newly F'urniblietl. Flectric Light. Separate Tables. Thirty-five Bed- roo.ns. Write to-day for Tariff and Booklet. Telegrams. " F'arnier, Newquay." GRAHA.M-1-ARMHR.
I Ki'l'KlinOR.
Newquay— PENOLVER Private
Sitiuited on Narrow Cliff. Facing the Atlantic. Path to Beaches
c)])]5osite House. Quiet and Comfortab'^. 3 minutes from Station. CECIL DAVIS, P oprietor.
HRiVAlE HOTEL.
Situati-d in the best part of Newquay, facing Sea and Bathing Beaches, with tine Views. Close to Station. Excellent Cuisine. Separate Tables. Electric Light. Perfect Sanitatiop. Neai Tennis Courts. Every Comfort. Termi Moderate. Highly Recommended. Mrs. H.ALL, Proprietress.
NEWQUAY, N. Cornwall-" C LI FFD EN E "
FIRST-CLASS PRIVATE HOTEL. Situated on Cliff Balconies. Unrivalled Views of the Atlantic Ocean. .\ccess to Bathing Beaches from House. Close to Tennis Courts and Bowling Green. Easy distance to Golf Links. Three minutes from Station. Excellent Cuisine. Moderate Tenas. Special Winter Terms. 'Phone 183. Mrs. & Miss PE.'\RCE. Proprietresses.
NEWQUAY-TOWAN Private Hotel
ISLAND ESTATE. rn-.iutiful'.y Situated on CI1II facing Towan Bathing .Sands. Extensive Sea and Coast Views. Well-appointed Modern House. Electric Light. Temiis, Bowls. 10 minutes from Golf Links. Separate Tables. Excellent Cuisine. Special Winter Terms. Mrs. A. MORRIS, Proprietress.
Private Car fnr Hire. (Late of Tre\ose.)
"PtHVATE HOTEL,
Recently linlarged &• lnipro\til. l-inest I'usitinn on .Sea Front, facing .Atlantic Ocean. One minute fiom Sands, tlarages. Nr. Station, Golf Links, Tennis Courts & Bowling Green. Home Comforts. Electric Light. Moderate Charges. Personal Supervision. 'Phone 159. Tels., " Killiek, Trenance Hotel, Nowquav." For Tarilf applv Mr. & .Mrs." ROPER KILLICK.
112^ WINDSOR MAGAZINE
BEST FOR THE NOME.
BEST FOR THE HOLIDAY.
Newquay—
^8
Norwich — Oxford — Plyrrtouth
NORWtCH.
piRST CLASS MODERN HOTEL. Furnished by Maple S: Co. PubUc Restaurant. Popular Prices. Night Porter.
Telephone 1411 Norwich.
HENRY L. CLARK, Managing Director.
EAD
V/f OST Interesting 15th Century House. Ecautifullv Fnrni-hed and brought up to date. New Bath Rooms and Sanitary Arrangements.
Telephone 85 Norwich.
HEXR.Y L. CLARK, Managing Dirkctor.
OXF '^ D. - rirsi-ciass Family. Centre ot Hiyii St. ESTAijLlSnED 1400. EUcUsht. Telepuune arfii.
Night Porter.
ijiinar,!;. Morris's G irage. ■phic Addiess—" M.tre, Oxford." Apply MANAGER.
OXro.<iJ.
Private and Residentia! Hotel,
47 to 53, IFi'LEY ROAD.
Ti-iiiia iMoilerate.
'Jelcphoiie 776,
Neai Coileyes aii^ River. . Good PuOlic Rooms. % / Pnvate Sitting Roonv if requirtd. ^V / Motor Garage. Small Gaiden.
^^ / .Miss liAKHR, I'ropn<tn-ss.
13 to 17, MAGDALEN STREET,
Oxforcl-OXENFORD HALL,
private ano IRcsiDeiuial iDoicl.
In the Centre of City. Near Co eges, and opposite Martyrs' Memoria TersYis I'lOJiei-ate. 'Phoiv^ ^48. w»Joc» W .'sS >N.
Plymoiith-PEARSE' S HOTELr^'^Jon^lr^et.'^TS'^)
"' Garage. A C.U., C.T.C.
Crlltr,
•l'li>
Near Millbay St.iliou. 1812. Al.nl-r.ito 'I'.itui
COMMENCE THE JOUwN£Y WITH
THE WINDSOR MAGAZINE
Paignton -Penzance — Port Erm 49
PAIGNTON. TORQUAY.
GOODRlNGTON HOUSE
PRIVATE RESIDENTIAL HOTEL.
A:i Ideal Summer and Winter Resort
Taken by Aerco Aerials Ltd. Finest Position on Tor iiiv. Terms En Pension according to Season and Room. Electric Light. Two Large Lawns. Home (irown Fruit and Vegetables. G.irage. For Safe Bathing on Own Sandy Beach. Nearest Churston Gnit I.inlvs Two miles to Club House. No Roads to Cross. 'Phone PAIGNTON 151. Apply to PROPRIETOR.
OLD-ESTABLISHED COMMERCiAL.
Three .Minutes Irom Sea and Station. F^lectrie Lif>lit Throughout. 'Phone 89. J. S. RICH.ARDS, Resident Proprietor. ^
(22 vears Wvvern Hotel. L--iceslet) .
Penzance— Beachlisid. The Leading
PfiUilto Untt^l Splendid Summer and Winter Resi- rl IVMLC nULCIi deuce. Situate on Promenade, Full \'iew of M<junt's B.iy, The Lizard, St. Michael's Mount, &c. .Sanitation I'erfect. Baths (h. & c). Gas Fires in Bedrooms. Electric Light Throughout. For Terms Applv 'Phone 67. Mrs. ROLLESTOX, Proprietress.
Penzance WESTERN HOTEL.
This Old-established Hotel will be futmd reijlete witli fviTv Comfort for Families and Tourists.
'I'hoae No". 10. li. CIIAAlFiON, I'roprietor.
Port Erin-"SNAEFELL" "nTttr
1 iiiest Position on I'r'.in, nadr. l-'.u iiig I'.ay. Close lu Links. .■\ccoinniodation for 120 \'isitors. Large Ballroom. Highly Re- commended. Tariff on application.
T. N. SCOTT. Proprietor.
Series, 1924-23] 4
50 Port Erin — Portree — Pwllheli — Khj?! — Rothbiiry
Port Erin, U.-Headlantis Private Hotel -
Overlo 'kiig the whole Bay and Headlands. Adjoining Golf Links. (.ARAGI-: Person?! Si'nervision. Tariff. Apply P. DANSON"
Port Erin, I.M.-Eagfie Hot&l~^:!i;^^''"'^J^
S:a. Boaiinsr, Bathing, Fishing and Tennis. Modciate and Inclusive "lar-iff leU.. •• i:agie. Portcini." W. WHIIHAM, Pioprietor.
PORTREE, S^YE.
For a Charming and Health-giving Holiday, Magnificent mountain and Loth Scenery, Rest, Romantic Interest, or Variety —
VISIT THE ISLE OF SKYE.
PORTREE, ISLE OF SKYE.
The Largest ?.nd Fines! Hotel in the Esland.
ISLE OF S§C¥E ¥lew Bmk.
Twenty Kagnificent Photos and Visitors' Gui;le, Is. 6d.
J. SIMPSON. PortrPe.
''ALES.
SUM M BR A^D \Vi\TER RliSORT.
Picturesquely Situated, with Perfect Views of Sea Coast and Mountain
Ranges. Unsurpassed for Grandeur in any Part of Britain. Ideal
Seaside Resort and Medically Recommended.
Send 2d. for Booklet —Information Bureau, Town Wall. PWLLHELI
A la'N'l'ANCli of Hr ■"^Sunshine. Clear I).! v.. no I'o^s or Snow. I.i^lit Rainfall an(l.Sandy Sub- soil. Excellent Train Scr\ice., As a visiting cenire Rhyl- is unsur- p.issctl. Tilt; safest
Bathing and Sands in the Kinj^donu Plenty of .•Xiiiiisoments. Muni-
c I im! Orchestra & I
.Ne
Pa'
and Marine Gardens
Illustrated Guide, List oJ Koteis, hoarding iiouces ana Apartments, l-oh tiee.
2d., from Dept., "W.D.," Town tiall, Khyi.
The Ideal NORTH WALES RESORT for all Sea^ns of the Year.
The Best for Residential and Visltini.'.
KHyi, W. Wales-" Paastirioiu" ^^^^^'1!: l^t^i
Links. Smoke Rms., L Icnn-nn application. 'Phom
i*c40 Large Bedroom-. lUcc. L 170. \V. L. MlTCllhXL. Proo'i
THE MOST PICTURESQUELY SITUATED HOTEL W NORTH- UMBERLAND. Stands in its Own Grounds and Terraced Gardens. Overlooking the Slopes of Cragsidc, on the outskirts of the Bistoric Village of Rothbury, with Simonside(l,40< ft.)towering in the distance. Recreation Room. Garage. Billiards. Fishing. Tennis. Golf.
St. Annes — St. Ives — Sandown — Scarborous;h
51
St. Annes-on-Sea-" CHASES8DE,".«"SH°Rb'AD."-
l>\ orlookins.Asliton l\o~e Gdns. i^: Sea. 5 m'ns. fr. Pier & Station. PRIVATE APARTMENTS. Mrs. M. E. LAXH. Propria tre^s.
CHY-AM^DREA Residential HoteS.
ST. IVES CORNWALL.
(5«1I«C«
Beautifully situated, facing St. Ives Bay, Lovely \iews from large Bay Windows. Dining, Draw- ing and Smoking Rooms
face the Sea. For Terms, apply Mrs. K. C. WHEELER,
PriOPRIETRESS.
'Phone 7?.
ST. IVES. CORNWALL
" TREVESSA "
PPJVATE AKD
RESXDlLwTIAL P-CTaL.
Adjoining Bathing Beacb.
Cose to Golf Links and
Tennis Courts.
tiarage Near.
SpeciEl Winter Terms.
■Pbone St. Ives 43.
Telegrams : Treves- a
Hotel, St. Ives, Cornwiill.
T.rms. Miss NEWTON.
Resident Proprietres*
SandowD. I.Y/.— THE SANDRINGHAM S^Jfss.'^'S'-n
ICspLinade. Spacious Dining & Drawing Rooms, & Lounge. Terraced Garden. 'Pnone 6P. Apply f(jr Illustrated Tariff " M."
QcinHrtwn— <J<»a CB'ftue Private Hotel & Boarding Establishment. OClllUUlrni OCCtgrUtfC —Finest Position, lacing Sea. Terms
M.idr.'.itL'
H. A. CHILD. Proprietor.
SCARBOROUGH.
PAVILION HOTEL.
The Best Appointed Hotel in Scarborough. R.A.C., A.A. 'Phone 70. R. E. LAUGHTON.
Scarborough PRINCE of WALES
HOTEL
-I'irst-class. l-acmg South and Over- looking Bay. Enclosed Suites. Close
to South Clilt Coll Links. TcIs.. " Princely, Scarboro'.'' 'Phone 925. 926. 11. Et'RXlSS, Proprietor.
Scarborough SWIFT'S ^°^K'c""'^
See Illustrated .Ad\crt. )n Ward Lock's Yorkshire Guides. J. B. SUTI-T, I'roprietor.
52 Scarborough — Shanklin — Southampton
Scarborough — CAMBRIDGE
L.
Sheltered Position near Golf, Tennis. Spa, Gardens, Sands, &c. Comfort Assured. R.A.C., A.A. Lift. Garage. 'Phone 222.
Miss TAYLOR. Managerc^^.
Scarborough-RIVIERA 'h'oVeI.!'
St. Nicholas' Cliff. Overlooking South Bay, Spa,
Sands ^: Clilts. Modern Furnishings. Sep. Tables.
High-class Catering. Tels., "Riviera, Scarboro'."
'Phone 479. E. D.\YSON-CROSLAND. Resident Proprietor
Scarborough-THE RANELAGH
PRIVATE & RESIDENTIAL HOTEL. On the Esplanade, imnie- d'ately a't.ove the Spa Ground?, Commanding Extensive View of the Souti Bay. Lu.xurioujly and Tastefully Furnished. First-class Cuisme. Reasonable Tariff. 'Phone 564. Full Particulars from The MAN.A.GERESS.
Scarborough-"MONTROSA "
SOUTH CLIFF. A High-class Private Hotel, occupying an Ln- n\ illc.l I'lKition, Overiool<ing South Bay and Gardens. Convenient tor Spa and Bathing Pool. The Only Hotel with Hot & Cold Water i.m All Bedrooms. Central Heating. Tennis. 3 Garages within one minute. RESIDENT PROPRIETRESS.
Scarborough-ALTON |?fA\°,:rs'HMENT
Prciuier Position on North Cliff. Most Comfortable. .Moderate 'lariff. Apply PROPRIKTOR.
Shanklin, I.W.-"CHANNEL VIEW"
U|>Tei Finest Position on Cliff, facing Sea. First-class & n\t l ^^m Thoroughly Up-to-date. Tennis Court, Croquet Lawn & Putting Green. Billiards (full-size). Ex. Cuisine. Sep. Tables. Open all the Year. Garage. Cars for Hire 'I'hone 72 Shanklin. Mrs. PARSONS & DAUGHTERS, Proprietresses.
SHANKLIN, I.W.CLIFTON EST^eSrENT
Prenuer PositJ'm on Keats Green. Old Lsiablished. Close to Chine and Lilt. Mrs. CLARK, Proprietress.
Qlianlrlin TAiAfA>*C I W Board Residence.— Cen. Position. OlIcAliniin I U WCIO J 1, II . Every Modem convenience. An
Ideal spot for a Holiday. Rubble & Grass Tennis Courts. Billiards.
Croquet. Bowls. Moderate Tariff. Mr. & Mrs. W. L. GOULD.
SHANKLIN, I. of W.— " MILANESE "
Boarding Establishmerit.^^^,^fRaSr" Southampton HAMTUN HOUSE HOTEL;
Private & Residential, Hulse Road. — In Select Residential Neigh- bourhood. Close to the Avenue, Common, Tennis and Croquet Clubs, Golf Links, and Cricket Ground. Three minutes to Trams. Well-appointed Throughout. Cuisine Excellent. Tariff .Moderate. Tel., No. 2766. Tels., "Hamtun House, Southampton."
Full particulars from The M.ANAGERESS.
Sidmouth
53
SIDIVIOUTM I-IOTELS.
VICTORIA HOTEL & FORTFIELD HOTEL,
"THESE two fine Hotels, of Sidmouth Hotels Company, Limited, are ' situated near Sea and Baths and Golf Linl«. Electric Light. Passenger Lifts. English Managers and Waiters. Excellent Motor Garages with Lockup Compartments. R.A.C., M.U., A.A. Visitors at these Hotels have special advantages at Baths and Golf Links Excepdiiii;! line Lounges and I'ublic Rooms, and all Rooms are furnished lu.xuriously.
VICTORIA m:oth:i^
VISITED BY ROYALTY AND MANY OTHER PEOPLE OF DISTINCTION,
The Grounds contain a SheUer adjoining the Beach. Telephone 11. Apply M.\NAGER.
W'if
This Hotel has a unique positioa adjoining the Cricket Field. Overlooking the Sea. it also has a distinguished clientele and a very liigh reputation.
Telephone 39. Apply MANAGER.
54
Southport — South sea — Stratford — Tenby
"THE LEADING HOTEL."
Go!f. Garage. Home Farm.
Also ROYAL HOTEL, Promenade
Southpori
THE PREMIER HOTEL. 220 ROOHflS.
MAQNeFiCENT BALL-ROOWI AND LOUNGES.
THE GOLFER'S PARADISF.
Soythport-Hesketh Park Hydro Ltd.-
Prsmier Hydro. Electric Lift. Tennis. Ciose Sea and Go!f
Links, illus. Tariff. 'Phone 1355. Teiegrams— " Rockley."
The Leading Hydro.
Siinnv Aspect. t\; All Baths .S; Treatment, fr. .orthv's." MAXAllJiRKSS.
Southport-iCiflWORTHY'S HYOHO
Hoit Central. 1-iit. Turkish, 12/- daily. 'PhonegO. Tels., '
Southport-HOTEL GORDON, ^SrSe Hot":
Tennis and Cronust in Own Grounds Illustrated Tariff on Application.
Near
to Golf Links. 'Phone 1501.
Soisthsea " SAI^DRigHIGHAgVi
I'acin'j; Sea and Conmioa. Telephone 3863.
?) Private Hotel.
F.lcctric I'assenser Lift. I'ronrietor, ALFRED GRIGSRY.
STRATFORD-ON-AVON.
The ARDEN HOTEL
opposite Ihu Mfinorial Theatre and River.
pURNISHHD with old oak. Well-appointed. All modern Improvements. Special Feature is made of the Cookingf. Lar^c New Dinint: Room and Attrac- tive Roof Garden with Exten- sive View. Special Reduced Winter Terms. Garage and Garden. 'P hone 46. Under the Personal Supervision of the MISSES CRANcH: WATNEY Uate of the Old Vicarage),
Stratford-on-Avon.
Stratford-on Awon-AyONHURST
BOARDii^G ESTABLISHMENT, JOHN STREET.
Most Central for W.uwicV', Leaniint;ton, Kenilworth, and all Place; of Shakespearean Interest. Near Large Garage. Terms Moderate. Miss VVlLDIiLOOD, Proprietress.
Stratford - on
GALLSHY RESTAURANT. Right in the
Contra of the Town. Small and Large Parlies Catered for. FREE GARAGE, Telephone 177.
TENBY SOMERSET BOAROi^G ESTAB.
ESPLANADE. I''acin,' South Bav. iMve minutes fro n Golf Links an.l Tennis Chib. I'or Tariff apply Miss WILSON, Proprietress.
Swansea — Tcign mouth
55
SWANSEA.
CENTRAL HOTEL, s™et.
(j luiiiiiUb' walk Iroiu G.W'.K. St.ilion.)
80 Bedrooms. Billiards (2 Tables). 4 Large .Stockrooi \i.
Hloctric Light Throughout.
READ THIS TESTIMONIAL,
We, the Delegates of the Bristol Branch of the United Kingdom Commei'cial Travellers' Association to the Swansea Conference, 1922,desi'e to express our high appreciation of the cfTorts of Mr. Rout and Staff, for the services placed at our disposal during our stay in Swansea. The Food (and Service) was excellent, and the general comfort of ourselves and our wives was all that could be desired.
TEIGMViOUTH S. Devon.
1 CLIFTON
Private Hotel.
Old-established. Tel. 127.
Situated on Sea Front. Ma.-nitiocnt View. Close to BoA-Iin^ Greens and ■J'en.iis Courts. JClectric Light Throughout.
Special Winter Terms.
For Teims. apply Mrs. W. L. NUTMAN.
(Uniiccnscd). Ollicially appuiutcd A. A., .M.U. High class Cuisine and Service. lUustrated Tariff. 'Phone 150. Telegrams, " Espladel."
Resident Proprietors Mr. and'.Mrs. I,. IvRlCXCM.
Tetgsiitioistli, THE PORTLANO
PR6VATE HOTEL. S.a Irunt, Idciiig I'l.-r Dm (Mrdons Bowling Green, &c. Jilcctric Light. Central Heating. Separate Tables. Lounge and Billiards. Moderate Tariff.
Mr. fi Mis. 1U"(:K\'F,LL.
TEIGNMOUTH- -Ideal Position on Sea Front
Mod. Tariff.
pccial sidence. Apply Miss MORRISH.
56
Torquay
TORQUAY.
ND HOi
LEADING HOTEL.
BEST Position. Sea Front. Nearest Station. Central lot Dartmoor. One of the Most Modern, Best Equipped Hotels in the Kingd.m. Excellent Orchestra. Hard Tennis Court. G.'^RAGE. Telephone No. 134.
TORQUAY.
PRIVATE HOTEL.
Ideally Situated. Excellent Cuisine.
Grounds Leading to Sea Front. Inclusive Terms.
RECENTLY ENLARGED. Garage. Tennis and Cro(|ucl Lawns. Easy Access to Two Golf Links. Public Rooms include Dining, DrawiiiK, Smoking, Billiard, Recreation, and Lounge. Telephone 113. Mrs. W.m. GRESHAM, Resident Proprietress.
Torquay
57
TORQUAY.
Dhi,lGHri-L'LSituatiou on Ssa Front. Charming and Extensive Grounds facing Tor Hay. Tennis, Croquet, Billiards,
Dancing. Electric Light, Heating and all Modern Coiivenienci-'S. GAR.AGE. Excellent Cuisine & Wines Terms a la Cane or
En Pensron Tels. : "Belgrave Hotel." Telephone \Z.
A. F.AK1:R. Pkopriktkt:??
BELGRAVE HOTEL
TORQUAY.
"KISTOR"
Private Hotel, Belgrave Road.
Situated in Own Grounds, facing Tor Bay. i min. fr. Sea Front & Electric Cars. Easy access to new Medical Baths. Central Heating and Elec- tric Lighting Throughout. Large Reception Rooms, Lounge, &c. Tennis, Croquet. Excellent Cuisine. GARAGE. 'Phone 325. Miss BAKER, Prop'tress.
FACING SOUTH.
"Bute Court '
High-Class Private Hotel.
CHARMINGLY situated in own grounds facing Sea Front : one of the most sheltered positions : Private Walkto Sands ;ni. Medical Baths, Station, Princess Garden>. Pier, Pavilion, Golf Links anil TennU Courts. Every Convenience. Spacious Rms. Smoking Lounge, Billiards. Central Heated. Cro- quet. Own Garage and Stabling, Mr. & .Mrs. BOND. plh.n.I43, VrriDrictors,
Also INGLEWOOD Fir»t-clas3 ^nvaie ..o'el.
TORQUAY.
THE
BUNGALOW HOTEL.
OCCUPIES a unique posi- tion overlooking Tor Bay. bituated in Own
Grounds. Makes an Ideal Winter Kesidcnce. sheltered fn n, the N. and E, Winds. Three niins, (r New Medical Baths, I'avilion, and New < ipeia House. Central Heat- ing. Luxuriously Furnished. Excellent Cuisine * -Apply, MAN.AGER.
'Phone Torquay 822. leis., " BuugaJow, Torquay."
5S
Torquay
RESIDENTIAL
HOTEL
AND ANNEXE.
C;;OUTH Aspect, facin?
f^ Sea. Large Sheltered
L.ardcn abutting Grounds
ot Tennis & Croquet Club,
with Private Walk to Sea,
avoiding all hills (two
minutes). Inclusive Terms.
Central Heating. Electriu
Light. Separate Tables.
Uarage. Telephone 667.
Mr. eS: Mrs. C. R. EVANS,
Reiiident Proprietors.
TORQUAY.
GARY CRESCENT.
IBL 3C Gr S3L - C; 3C. ..A. S5 S X3. O M7 lES X< .
South Aspect and Magnificent Sea Views. Open Balconies. Separate Tables. Centrally Heated. Excellent Cuisine. An Ideal Winter and Summer Residence. Constant Hot Water. Terms SJ gns. to 6 gns. per week. Garage near. Phone 963. Apply C. J. HAYES. Resident Director TORQUAY. "
TOURAINE
PRIVATE HOTEL.
SOUTH Aspect Splendid Sea Views. Near Sands, with Excellent Bathing, Nt u Medical Baths, Theatre, i-Vi H.VV- Radiators in Bedroom Electric Light. Own Tenni.. Lawn. I-'ive Bathrooms and handsome fixed basins in Bed rooms, with constant hot and cold water supply. 'Phone 183 For Illustrated tariff, apply
Mr. & Mrs. V. AIJA.MS.
rro s^ <3t-v^A.^sr.
iLLA BELZA ^'^ITtV.'"'-
ON U. of Torquay's famous A'illa Resi- dences. Ideal Situation, due South, tonnuanding Unequalled Vicivs, includ- \n^ the whole of Torl-»ay. Spacious Lounges. Elec. Light Throughout. H.\. Cuisine. Good Service. Noise-proof double Windows (fronting Seal.
Terms from £3 35. , Good Chef.
WINTER. — Owing tu ' ~l. sheltered posi- III. II. \ il!,i I).l/a can he strongly recom- mended as a Winter Residence, being protected frnm all nnrth ..t east winds, and with its Scuttiern Aspecc obtains all the.Suu of ilic day. I'ersonal .Supervision of Proprietors.
Mr. & Mrs. J. DENHAM liROWN. Telephone No. 72. Telegrams, " \'illa Cclza, Torquay."
Torquay
59
1 TORQUAY.
^j ^
Firsi-class Private HoUl
NI \R I'avilion. Mfdicil n.itlis. Uathiiig Coves. Pier. Turbay ■^ drht Ckil> & Elec. Trams to C'.olf I mUs. tiec. Light. Sep. Tables. Terraced Lawn, facing S.W., over- lookin, bca and Harbour, sffords one ct till finest Panoramic \'iews in tlic World. 'Phone 589. Tcls., " I ilenluir-t, Torquay." Under tlie Personal Supervision of
The HOSTLSS.
TOt?0llAY PRIVATE HOTEL
Situated in Meal PoMtionju^t above Strand. Overlo ikiug Bay. Splendid Views. Five acres of srround. Italian Gar- den. Tennis Com t. Garage. Within easy access of many Places of Interest. Personal Supervision. Hx. Cuisine. Individual Comfort of Guests studied. Terms from 4 gns.
A..\. 'Phone 1070. ^Trs. C. G. KlINN.\W.\'i'.
siiXjii- ia:c3>-crss33.
TORQUAY.
"SEA LAWN " PRIVATE HOTEL
Ideal Position on Tront.
n Level. Most Central.
Separate Tables.
Excellent Cuisine.
Mcdcr.ite Terms.
GAR.\GE.
\ -.itors' Conifoit the first I .isideraiion ofProprietois, ".'k.lSjMrs. J. A.PLUM.
I'hone 774.
Tels., ■' Sea'.awn."
TORQUAY.
Ev1AK^:'^/9RT6l
PRIVATE HOTEL.
jv\ac;\ificl;.\t \'iius-
' ' TaHtetully l-"urni~in.<l &DccoiatPcl. I'ourmiiis. fr. Shops, Trams, Garcions, Sk. Electric I.iglit. Sop. Tables. Exrellent Cui.=ine. Billiards. Terms (i(m3i guineas. 'Photie 78. Residknt Propriftri:ss, Mrs. H.E. BEESDM.
View Irora Balcony."
6o
Torquay
TORQUAY
JES S^ C O JSHT HotrSDES
Boarding Establishment
Beautiful Situation. South Aspect. On level with Medical Baths. Lovely Views of Tor bay & surround- ing Scenery. Sheltered from N. & R. Winds. Central Position. E.xcel- lent and varied Cuisine. Large Drawing Rooms opening on Balconies. BilJiard and Smoke Rooms. Baths (H. & C). Terms Apply 'Phone No. 391.
Mrs. COOMBES CROSSLEY,
Resident Proprietress.
Also MARSDEN LODGE
Boardlns; House, ih.n. D34 MORGAN AVEi^UE.
SENLAC
Private Hotel, LINCOMBE DRIVE.
piRST - CLASS. Own '■ Grounds Command- ing Corner Site. Convenient for Sea, Trams, Shops and Golf. Elec. Light I hrough- out. Personal Supervision. Tels., " Sealac. Torquay " Mrs. COATES,
Proprietress
TORQUAY.
PREVATE HOTEL,
Falkland Road,
Old-established and most con- veniently situated. Facing S. Large Garden. Balcony and BeautitulVicwsot Sea iSLand. Near Tennis Courts. Billiards. Croquet. Garage. Special \\ inter Tariff. Tcls., " Saver- nake, Torquay." 'Phone 868. Teims Irom £3 3 0 per week.
Mr. & Mrs
BERNARD COURT
(late nf nirmingham).
TQRQCJAV
Falkland Lodge
PRIVATE HOTEL.
MEAR the Front. Centrally Situ ^^ ated and commanding Bcanti lul Sea and Landscape Views Facing South. Excellent Cuisine Separate Tables. Most Comfort able and Highlv Recommended Garage Accommodation. 'Phone 576, Under Personal Supervision. Miss NEWSAM . Proprietress.
Torquav
Ci
TORQUAY.
TORQUAV.
Crofton House
PRIVATE HOTEL
Reile
iraf.l
'Ihi
Siluated in sunny shcltorpil position facinjj south and having approach Ihrowirh Private Park to Sea. Sunny I.oungc, ReadingRoom. Oin- ine Room iSi-parate T.ll)lts). Central heating. Gas 1-ircs or Radiators in all Bedrooms. l-.x. Cuisine. From J guineas to 4i guineas weekly. Mrs! 1-. I£. WHITF,
I'KOI'KIETRKSS.
LE CHALET VLl'^,
Braddons Hill Road East. StnndiiiR in Own Grounds ot 3 acres. Entirely overlooking Torbay. Commanding Mag. \'iews. Easy access to Golf Links c'^; Public Tennis Courts. Sep. Tables. Ex Cuisine. Mod. Terms Garage. Croquet Lavifn. IIK-Stratcd Tariff on appli- rntion.
Entirely New Management.
Mr. & Mrs. G. M. B.ARKER,
Propkiktor?.
TORQUAY.
TORWOOD VIEW
PRIVATE HOTEL, Tot wood Gardons.
Sr>uthern Aspect. Beautifully Situ- ated, overlooking Torwood Gardens. Hath (h. & c). Electric Lislit. Central for Shopping. Motor and Tram Tours, &c. (French Spoken). Separ ateTables. Croquet Lawn. Inclusive I'Tuis from £3 33. Under the Personal .upervision of the Resident Proprietors Mr. cS: Mrs. C. D.'XFT.
TORQUAY.
HENDERSYDE
PRIVATE HOTEL.
C 1 AN 111 M; i:i Dun liromuK. •-^ South Aspect. Overlooking Torbay, with Magnificent Views. A few minutes from Sands and Town. A Splendid Suuwuer and Winter Residence. Separate Tables. Excellent Cuisine Moderate Terms. Tel. 139 Personal Sup'Tvision. Mrs. i:. I.. Hl-lRBEItT, PROPKIlilRESS.
Torquay — Ventrior — Weston-super-Mare
Torquay- B E L F B E L D
High-class PRIVATE HOTEL, Crolt Road.
Ideal. Standing; in Own Grounds and Park. Unique position, facin? South. Entirely sheltered from N & E. winds. Overlooking Day. Magnificent Sea and Landscape Views. Summer and Winter Resort. Every Comfort and Good Cuisine. Personal Supervision. Telesranis " Belfield, Croft Road, forquav." For Tern-i'^ apply HOGGETT k RlCI-I.-\RDSON. Proprietor'^.
Boarding Establishsrenl,
TorwOOd Gardens. Beautifully Situated in Own
Grounds. S. Aspect. Close Trams. Tennis Lawn.
Baths. Elec. Light. Ex. Cuisine. Own Garage.
Moderate Tariff. Miss STEPHENS, Proprietress.
CE?nRAL FOR EVERYWHERE.
Separate Tablei. From 3 guineas per weak. Private Car tor Hire. 'Piirine 317. Teleffram^, " Aslilev Court, Torquay,"
TORQUAY, S. Devon. — Pleasantly Situated 200 ft. above Sea. Easy Access, Every Comfort.
g^^iar
Personal Super
Good Cuisine.
I^Icc. Ligrht Throughout, ll.s (H. & C ) Mod. and Ino Terms, ion. ivii.;s RIX, Proprictrpss.
'i'npnnn;? s^.-i-ft)n£&8lSS 11 Apariments. FIRST-CLASS.
lOiqilliy-«Sl.©fBenagB. Crescent.-VerySheUered. So
Marine Parade."
Belgrave South Aspect.
Close to Sea, Pier, Gardens. Tennis 1.S; Cro<|uet Courts. Garage N e a r 'Phone 775. Mrs. & Misses HOLE. Proprietresses.
ViNTNOR, l.y.W.- HOTEL MARINA (Private),
-FORiVIERLY MARINE BOARDING HOUSE.
Best Position Overlooking Beach. All
Front Rooms afford Channel View. Near Pier. Billiards. Gas
Fires in Bedrooms. Ideal Winter and Summer. Individual
Attention. 'Phone Ventnor 32. Tcls., "Sunshine, Ventnor."
-Write MANAGERESS.
RJ.W, "The RIGHBVIOND"
First-class Boarding Establishment, ESPLANADE. Under Entirely New Management. F'inest Position on Sea Front. Balcony Bedrooms commanding Extensive Channel Views. Open Through- out the Year. Electric Light Throughout. Gas Fires in Berlrooms. 'J'erius from 3 guineas, according to Season. Under the Personal .Suriorvi^inn nf Mr. ,\: -Mrs. W. H. ELLIOTT. Resident Proprietors;
WestOQ-super-Mare-Raya! Hotel p°sitioT'°Facino'""*
Standing in 8 acres of Private Grounds. Lilt. Electric Light. Tel. 277.
Tennis Courts.
J Sea. Garage.
Weston -super-Mare-
Prlyate Hotel. Unrivalled Position. 'Phone579. PROP'TRESS.
1!!? WINDSOR MAGAZINE
AT ALL BOOKSTALLS. BOOKSELLERS & NEWSAaESTS.
Weston — Weymouth — Windennere — Worthing 63 WESTON-SUPER-IViARE.
" B ^ L. IVl Y L E"
54, BEACH ROAD. Splendidly Situated, Facing Sea, Brean Do-vn and Pitr. Electric Cars constantly passing for Golf Links. Most Moderate Terms. Every Convenience. Perfect Sanitary Arranijcments. "Mks. WHIT IMG. Pioprietrc^-^.
WEY8V30UTH.
^"^ ROYAL HOTEL (u^'TBD)
Tho LEADING AND OhlLY tAODERU HOTEL IN WEYMOUTH.
Directly Fa'-ing hea. Electric Light Throughout. Lilt. Bath Koonis
on each Floor. AU Public Rooms, Private Sitting Rooms, and mo^t
Bedrooms face the Sea. Large Garage. Inspection Pit. Petrol.
Tel. No. 262. Tariff sent 0:1 Application.
Cn Sea Front. Public Rooms face Sea.
R.A.C., A. A. & M.U. 'Phone No. 144,
F. SEFTON SMITH, Proprietor.
WiDdermere-Christopherson' s ^^!^!,r^!^d?i^V^^
an 1 Ic.unsts. .\rar Station i^ Tost Dihcc. Baths (H. & C). Ternii M.Klcr.itc. Coach Unnkins^. Mi,-; ( MKISTOl'l Hi RSOX. ['roptr.'^.;.
Tflost Besuilfu! Spot in t!i3 Wes!. v^mile'slr. I.ynton. 700 ft. aboi.e Se.i. On !'ii\<iie Lstali- of 150 acres._ -Ma'^niiicent \'ie\vs.
First-Class Cookirig. Fuliy Licensed. fio Bars. Garage.
Modern Sanitation and Bath;'. liarlv application necessary,
lei ., " Hnlman, Woodv-Bav." S. G. R. HOL.M.AN, I'roprielor.
Wcolacoffibe Bay.
(Mortelioe) (see page 45)
rthing
PRtVATE HOTEL. Occupies Prenuer Position on Parade, facing Bandstand. Thirty Rooms, facing Sea. Large New Tea Lounge. 1 ennis. Bathing from Hotel, 'i'hone 591. F. A. CL.\RKE, Proprietor.
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! HOW TO IMPROVE YOUR GAME m
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-Winner Nexvs of the World Tournament, 1921 ; Efsex Champion. 1922 ; Semi-Finalist, Open Championship, 19j;3.
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The author seems in very fact to take his readers on the links with him, leading them step by step from the very rudiirents of the grme to the higher technicalities and perfection of style and finish v^hich go to the making of a first-class golfer.
Illustrated u'ith 33 ACTION-PHOTOGRAPHS AND MANY DIAGRAMS.
k NEW AND AUTH0RiTAT8VE WORK
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Bath . . |
.. 67 |
Malvern |
. 09 |
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Bideford |
.. 67 |
Margate . . |
. 69 |
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Bognor . . |
.. 67 |
Newquay |
. 69 |
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Bournemoutli . |
.. 67 |
Oxford |
. 6g |
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Bristol . . |
.. 67 |
Ramsey, I. of M. |
. 69 |
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Buxton . . |
.. 68 |
Ramsgate |
70 |
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Christchurch . |
.. G8 |
Rhyl .. .. |
• 70 |
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Cromer |
.. 68 |
St. Annes-on-Sea |
. 69 |
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Eastbourne |
.. 68 |
vSt. Leonards . . |
• 70 |
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Exeter . . |
.. 71 |
St. Margaret's Bay |
. . 70 |
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Exmouth |
.. 68 |
Sandown |
• 70 |
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Falmouth |
.. 68 |
Scarborough |
. . 70 |
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Felixstowe |
.. 68 |
Southampton . . |
.. 70 |
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Gorleston |
.. 68 |
Southport |
.. 70 |
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Guernsey |
.. 68 |
Swanage |
.. 70 |
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Harrogate |
.. 68 |
Teignmouth |
.. 7c |
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Ufracombe |
68, 69 |
Torquay |
•• 71 |
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Littlehampton . |
.. 69 |
Weymouth |
• 71 |
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London |
. . 69 |
Whitstable |
.. 71 |
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Lymington |
. . 69 |
Windermere |
•• 71 |
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Lytham |
.. 69 |
Worthing |
• 71 |
Auctioneers, K.slate At^eats, &c. 67
Bath POWELL & POWELL, Ltd.
HOUSE and ESTATE AGENTS and AUCTIOKEERS.
Illustrated Lists Free. Removals. WarehousiiiK. Antiques. 1 r!s,, " I'owell's Hath." 'Phoiie 18 <'c Ig (two lines).
Bath FORTT, HATT & BILLENGS, F.A.I.
House and Estate Agents, Auctioneers anJ Valuers. List of ell availabia Properties may be obtained on applicntisn. Removals b/ Road or Rail, and
Wart-.housinf^. Telephone 1488 (two lines).
Bidet ord & Westward Ho ! -R. DYMOND & SON,
111 ■ liank Chunbers, Biilrlon.l. — Auctioneers and Valuers, House and Estate Agents, Motor and Carriage Proprietors.
HOUaiE AND ESTATE AGENTS, 6, LONDON RD. aii<l ALDWICK RD. Furnished Houses and Pro- perties for Sale. Tel. Nos. 140 and 243.
BOURNEMOUTH. LANE & SMBTH,
HOUSE AND ESTATE AGENTS, AUCTIONEERS AND VALUERS, DALKEITH STEPS. Furnished and Unfurnished Houses for Sale or to Let.
ICstablishi'd 1873. 'J'huiie S5.
BOURNEMOUTH— ALLAN & BATH,
AUCTIONEERS, SURVEYORS, VALUERS, HOUSE & ESTATE A6E.MTS. Local At,'entWor Medmm-size 1 Ke-.i(lential I'roperties near Co'f Links, Queen's Park, .Meyrick Lark, Talbot Woods, &c.
Furnished Houses, Shops, Businesses, Boarding Houses, &c. Te!. Au 570. Offices : - ALBERT ROAD (near ths Arcade),
and 57, Ciiarmin^fer Road.
BournemoutSi HOUSE AQEf^TS.
J. T. CURTIS, SON & SINCLAIR,
190, OLD CHRISTCHURCH ROAD (Opposite Holy 'J rinity Cliurch) t o:iiplete l.i'-is .in 1 Ma;', etc., tiee on application. And a' POOLE and EROADSTONE.
BOURNEMOUTH REB8ECK BROS. tlnciVal
)liii'-.> III Imuii and Di-tn. t. l.iM^ in-. !■ slablished 1845. mii. <-. : {..■rvis l'i.,,r, lViiiiiiii,i,.iiih. \r..initv (laics, ^^•<•stbonrne.
BRSSTOL-DAVEY & GO., Ltd., '^^Sv^^l
Clifton Down Station). Estate and Eouss Agents. J<einovaii ana Warehousing. Established ;o years. 'I'hone 4853.
08 Auctioneers, Estate Agents, iXc.
Buxton HAYES & SON,
THE RESIDENT AGENTS, 3, THE QUADRSBT.
For all Available Properties for Sale and Furnished Houses. Property Register Free.
'rii.in, 515. '_ rrlrgrams. "Ali-it."
Southtojrna, Bournemouth J and District —
BULSTRODE & SONS, F.A.I., Auctioneers & House Agents. The Auction Mart, Stour Road, Christ- church, Hants. For all Available PropLrties in these Districts. 'Phone 64.
0|«A|MpB> — ALLMAN & GIBSON, Auctioneers and House Agents. VI WliBCa FumUhed& Unfurnished Properties m Cromer, blurinsli iin, .Muiidesley, Oxerstr.ui'l and Districts, l.ii-t-; Free. State leoune- ments. Church Street, Cromer ; and Norwich. 'Pliniu- 63^
HiJUSE agents;
Rating & G3n.3ral Vaiuers, Auctioneers and Building Surveyors.
) 51-53, SEASIDE RD.
'Phone & Tels., 896 " Eastbourne."
liXDlOlIltl— CnCWS & 5U^B■AgentS,''Aucti0I^eers.'Fu^lisllers, Removers, Undertakers. Illus. List of Furnished and rnfiunisbed Houses and Properties Free. 4 Ik 6, Kolle Street. 'Pi en • 15.
Falmouth— CORLYON & ^ONS
Auctioneers, Surveyors and Valuers. House, Estate, Shipping and insurance Agents. Stock and Share Brokers. OpFicts : CEiMTRAL AUCTION CHAMBERS, 20, MARKET STREET. Aucmon M.\rt& FuRNiriRE Repository : GYLLYING STREET. All Risks Covered
at LLOYD'S. Telegrams: " Corlvon, .Auctioneer, Falnioutli." Telepl-ione 138.
Felixstowe— J. R. GIRLING,
Auctioneer, House Agent and Surveyor, Specialist for luriii-hed Iloii-e'^ and Properties Inr Sale. 'Phone 69.
Corleston-on-Searoast~A.V.George,%tuT&
House A?ent. 500 Furnished Houses on Register. Garase tor 50 Caig atlached to Office. 'Pli..iii Gorleston 58 : Yarmouth 464.
SEY-Lovs!l & Co., Ltd., ^f 1^*^,^n!^ ^d^
furnished Houses pest free. Ixemoval Contraetnrs iiid House Fur- nishers. 7, 9 '.'<-• 11. Smith St. 'Pels.. " Loye'.l. Guernsey." 'Phone 63.
Harrogate-JOHN DAY & SONS t^J^keS't
Princes Square. — Harro,';ate &I3isti iet Edition ot th.e ' Homefinder " I'Vecon appletn. 'I'els., "Days, Harrogate." 'PhoneSS ilano^ate.
Harrogate ESTATES VALUATION CO. "E^st'e'^
Agents & Auctioneers. I'nrnislud Houses. :\I..rt,i;a;:.s. ADDRESS, Prineps Sn. 'Phone 1404. R. rOOK-WAT.SOX. F S.S.. M,ni. Direc.
Ilfracomtae, N. DEYuN^x.,^; L»,^,>»{ro^f'
& Estate Agent. Furnished Houses and .Apartments secured. Illustrated Guide and Property Register on application. 'Pel. 138.
Auctioneers, Estate Agents, tic. 69
ILFRAGOMBE W. L. CATHCARTS fjie Rsllable
and District— {," l-u",i.hed ami rnfumUhed Honses, " © U S E
Bunu.ikiws and Holiday Accomiiiodation. AGENTS.
Free Lists on receipt of requirements and stamp. 'I'lLmr iifLircmib,- 9. LITTLEH^r.PTON HOUSE AGENTS.
rCTIONEERS & VALU 21-25. High St. 'Phone 2.
SPARKS & SON AUCTIONEERS & VALUERS.
LONDON AH Parts).
rOK IIOLSES, I'LATS. SHOPS, OFFICES. F.\CTORIES, AN'D ALL
KIiVDS OF INVESTMENTS, GROUND RENTS, &c., apply to
Messrs. SALTER, REX & Co.
CbarteicD £u vcY>or5 anC* 'Buctionccvs?,
Ian?, Uioiise, aiiD Jiistate 21 -cute,
311, KENTISH TOWN ROAD, LONDON, N.W.5, Tel. Uaiupsiead 4042-3.
85, LONDON WALL, E.C.2. Tel. Wall 1231. Rents Collected Estates Managed. Valuations for ail Purposes.
Rating Experts. Assfssm>nt .Appeals Conducted.
I milrtn^ C. C.& T. MOORE, Managers ot House Property, Auctioneers, LUliUUU Cily Office -Agents. House Property Sales at the .Auction Mart, E.C., on Thursdays {held continuously for eighty-nine years). ChiefOfiir.es — 7, Leadenhall Street. London. E.C. ^
Lymlngton and New Forest -J-.f^iLt^.^^Toy^s
for Sale, also for Removals and Warehousing. Estait. 1878.
92. HIGH STREET, LYMINGTON. P.hone 93.
Lytham
ST. ANNES
BERTRAM F. HARGREAVES,
Auctioreep & House Agent.
"Phone 460.
Malvern
J. G. LEAR JSc £»Of\), t-.A.I., AUCTIONEERS AN > ESTATE AGENTS.
listablishfd DO vonrs. IVIcphni,,^ 160.
Margate REEVE & BAYLY, House Agents, Ac, 18, Cecil Square and Cliftonville Chambers, Margate.-It't'onlSrnishel
an:l Unfurnished Houses in the District.
WQUAY
LEADING
HOUSE AGENTS.
JOHi\JJULIAN&Co.,
.CORNWALL'. -Phone 8f,. ^^°
Oxf ord"^- ^' BROOKS & SON, ^ste^et.^LS^^i
» " ^» ■ wi. Surveyors, Valuers, House, Land and Estate Agents.
\"a!uatioiis for l-:>tate Uulv .in.l i;tlii|- purpo<os. .\.it. T'l. :J29
RAMSEY, I.O.M.-T. A. FARGHER, an^^^esta'te'a^s'eC
FunnslKdaiul I ■nfiHiii--hril 1 i. r,i-. ~, 1,. L.t .ui.l (■■rSalc. Sjlcet I'r.vate Apartments. Choice Freehold IJuilding Sites on most Ucasunable Terms. 'Phone 59. 'icis., " Fargher, Ram;ey, .Man."
7*3 Auctioneers, Estate Agents, &c.
THE PRINCIPAL
HOUSE and - - ESTATE ACisnS.
'Phone 60. HOLNESS & OVENDEN, 37, High Street.
'Phone 1:9.
JOS. WILLIAMS & SON,
AUCTIONEERS, HOUSE & ESTATE AGE?JTS, COUNTY CHAMBERS. V/rJte for Freo List;
Tels.. "Wilhams. Auctioneers, Rhyl."
ST. LEONARDS-^OM-SEA -^ BEAOLEY'S,
AUCTIONEERS, HOUSE AND ESTATE AGENTS, 27, Grand Parade, St. Leonards-on-Sea. Lists ot all available Properties on Application. 'Phone Hastings 350.
St. Margaret's Bay, g^?/er-FLASHSViAN & Co., Ltd.
HOUSE & ESTATE AGENTS, MARKET SQUARE, DOVER. Local Representative. Mr. A .E. DOUBLEDAY. St. Margarets-at-Ciia.
Sancfown & District, LW.^oufE and%"ta™
AGENT AND AUCTIONEEn, 24, High Street. Lists o2 FarnisjsJ Houses and Apartments on Application.
Scarborough !|l'„t C. W/MOSEY,
91, WESTBOROUGH. Properties of all descriptions lor Sale ; also Large Selection of Furnished Houses to be Let for Short or Long Periods. Lists Free. 'Phone 700,
(including the New Forest and Southern Districts). WALLER & KING, F.A.I., Auc- tioneers, Valuers, House, Land & Estate Agents. Auction .Mart, Above Bar, Southampton. Kstab. over loo years. 'Phone '>TiO.
SOUTHPORT-C. S. GREENWOOD, F.A.I., ^ord ^Itreot.
Tronipt and Personal Attrntion to all Hnuse and Estate Business, Property on Sale, "lo I.,t, tVr., Inirnished Houses, t'^^c. Trl, 2032.
Woodford Whice & Howell,
Auctioneers & Valuers. Oldest Estcbllshsd a Leading House Agents. Opposite Railway Station. 'Phone to.
Teignmoiitli-ROBT. FROST & SON, "I^^LneeA'"^:
Valuers. Note Address — Corner of Station Road, facin? Repent S . Monlhly Register Gratis & I'ost Free on application. 'Phone 83.
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CiiuLO ; — /, Vaughan Parade and b9. Union Street. ESTABLISHED i8so. 'Phones ££0 & 241.
G. R. SMITH & SON, 9, STRAND.
Illustrated Resi^fer^of l\n paaes ([>nst tree) of Hou<e<: \ Estates. .\lso Special Lists of Private Hotels ami Boarding Houses to be Sold or Let in lorquav and Si'Ntli I >evon 'I'hnne Id.
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St. Leonards-WEST MARINA ^f^|^°^v:^c:ti^suL:;'ol;
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YENTNOK, I.W.-BELMONT SCHOOL -r.^LdlXyU'l^-
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