Small Talk at Wreyland. First Series

S M A L L T A L K A T W R E Y L A N D CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS C. F. CLAY, Manager LONDON: Fetter Lane, E.C. 4
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LUSTLEIGH CLEAVE FROM THE OVAL LAWN
BY CECIL TORR CAMBRIDGE AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS 1918 First Edition, June, 1918 Reprinted, November, 1918 CAMBRIDGE: PRINTED BY J. B. PEACE, M.A. AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS
I WROTE this little book for private circulation; and it was actually in type, and ready for printing, before its publication was suggested. I feel some diffidence in inviting strangers to read what I intended only for my personal friends. But it all seems to hang together, and I have not omitted anything.
In addressing this to strangers, I should explain that Wreyland is land by the Wrey, a little stream in Devonshire. The Wrey flows into the Bovey, and the Bovey into the Teign, and the Teign flows out into the sea at Teignmouth. The land is on the east side of the Wrey, just opposite the village of Lustleigh. It forms a manor, and gives its name to a hamlet of six houses, of which this is one.
CECIL TORR.
Yonder Wreyland, Lustleigh, Devon.
All the illustrations, except the portrait, are from photographs taken by the Author.

DOWN here, when any of the older natives die, I hear people lamenting that so much local knowledge has died with them, and saying that they should have written things down. Fearing that this might soon be said of me, I got a book last Christmas—1916—and began to write things down. I meant to keep to local matters, but have gone much further than I meant.