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A BOOK OF THE WEST
VOL. I.
DEVON

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BY THE SAME AUTHOR

LIFE OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
THE TRAGEDY OF THE CSARS
THE DESERT OF SOUTHERN FRANCE
STRANGE SURVIVALS
SONGS OF THE WEST
A GARLAND OF COUNTRY SONG
OLD COUNTRY LIFE
YORKSHIRE ODDITIES
FREAKS OF FANATICISM
A BOOK OF FAIRY TALES
OLD ENGLISH FAIRY TALES
A BOOK OF NURSERY SONGS
AN OLD ENGLISH HOME
THE VICAR OF MORWENSTOW
THE CROCK OF GOLD

haymakers

SWEET HAY-MAKERS

title

A
BOOK OF THE WEST
BEING AN INTRODUCTION
TO DEVON AND CORNWALL

BY S. BARING-GOULD

VOL. I.
DEVON

WITH THIRTY-FIVE ILLUSTRATIONS

METHUEN & CO.
36 ESSEX STREET, W.C.
LONDON
1899

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PREFACE

In this "Book of the West" I have not sought to say all that might be said relative to Devon and Cornwall; nor have I attempted to make of it a guide-book. I have rather endeavoured to convey to the visitor to our western peninsula a general idea of what is interesting, and what ought to attract his attention. The book is not intended to supersede guide-books, but to prepare the mind to use these latter with discretion.

In dealing with the history of the counties and of the towns, it would have swelled the volumes unduly to have gone systematically through their story from the beginning to the present; it would, moreover, have made the book heavy reading, as well as heavy to carry. I have chosen, therefore, to pick out some incident, or some biography connected with the several towns described, and have limited myself thereto.

My object then must not be misunderstood, and my book harshly judged accordingly. There are ten thousand omissions, but I venture to think a good many things have been admitted which will not be found in guide-books, but which it is well for the visitor to know, if he has a quick intelligence and eyes open to observe.

In the Cornish volume I have given rather fully the stories of the saints who have impressed their names indelibly on the land. It has seemed to me absurd to travel in Cornwall and have these names in the mouth, and let them remain nuda nomina.

They have a history, and that is intimately associated with the beginnings of that of Cornwall. But their history has not been studied, and in books concerning Cornwall most of the statements about them are wholly false.

I have not entered into any critical discussion concerning moot points. I have left that for my "Catalogue of the Cornish Saints" that is being issued in the Journal of the Royal Institution of Cornwall.

There are places that might have been described more fully, others that have been passed over without notice. This has been due to no disregard for them on my part, but to a dread of making the volumes too bulky and cumbrous.

Finally, I owe a debt of gratitude to many kind friends who have assisted me with their local knowledge, as Mrs. Troup, of Offwell House, Honiton; the Rev. J. B. Hughes, for some time Head Master of Blundell's School, Tiverton, and now Vicar of Staverton; Mr. R. Burnard, of Huckaby House, Dartmoor, and Hillsborough, Plymouth, my alter ego in all that concerns Dartmoor; Mr. J. D. Enys, whose knowledge of things Cornish is encyclopdic; Messrs. Amery, of Druid, Ashburton; Mr. J. D. Prickman, of Okehampton; and many others.

S. BARING-GOULD

Lew Trenchard House, Devon
June, 1899

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CONTENTS

CHAPTER	PAGE
I.	The Western Folk
II.	Villages and Churches
III.	Honiton
IV.	A Landslip
V.	Exeter
VI.	Crediton
VII.	Tiverton
VIII.	Barnstaple
IX.	Bideford
X.	Dartmoor and its Antiquities
XI.	Dartmoor: Its Tenants
XII.	Okehampton
XIII.	Moreton Hampstead
XIV.	Ashburton
XV.	Tavistock
XVI.	Torquay
XVII.	Totnes
XVIII.	Dartmouth
XIX.	Kingsbridge
XX.	Plymouth

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ILLUSTRATIONS

Sweet Hay-makers
From a photograph by Mr. Chenhall, Tavistock.
Clovelly Fishermen	To face page
From a photograph by the Rev. F. Partridge.
Sheepstor	"
From a painting by A. B. Collier, Esq.
Holne Pulpit and Screen	"
From a photograph by J. Amery, Esq.
Honiton Lace	"
From specimens kindly lent by Miss Herbert, Exeter, and Mrs. Fowler, Honiton. Photographed by the Rev. F. Partridge.
High Street, Exeter	"
From a photograph by the Rev. F. Partridge.
A Cob Cottage, Sheepwash	"
From a photograph by the Rev. F. Partridge.
East Window, Crediton Church, before "Restoration"	"
From a sketch by F. Bligh Bond, Esq.
Tiverton	"
From a photograph by Mr. Mudford, Tiverton.
Queen Anne's Walk, Barnstaple	"
From a photograph by the Rev. F. Partridge.
Chapel Rock, Ilfracombe	"
From a photograph by Wellington and Ward, Elstree.
Hartland Smithy	"
From a photograph by the Rev. F. Partridge.
Clovelly	"
From a photograph by the Rev. F. Partridge.
Staple Tor	"
From a photograph by James Shortridge, Esq.
Rippon Tor Logan Stone	"
From a photograph by J. Amery, Esq.
Broadun Pounds	"
Barrow on Chagford Common	"
Drawn by R. H. Worth, Esq.
Lakehead Kistvaen	"
From a photograph by R. Burnard, Esq.
Urn from Kistvaen	"
Drawn by R. H. Worth, Esq.
Vixen Tor	"
From a painting by A. B. Collier, Esq.
Lower Tarr	"
From a photograph by J. Amery, Esq.
Tavy Cleave	"
From a painting by A. B. Collier, Esq.
Taw Marsh	"
From a painting by A. B. Collier, Esq.
Yes Tor	"
From a painting by A. B. Collier, Esq.
The Calculating Boy	"
From a miniature in the possession of Miss Bidder.
Grimspound	"
From a plan by R. H. Worth, Esq.
J. Dunning, Lord Ashburton	"
From a painting by Sir J. Reynolds.
Old Oak Carving, Ashburton	"
From a photograph by J. Amery, Esq.

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