The Somerset Coast

by Charles G. Harper

We wish you had never been born.”

[9]. “No class” people, these neighbours, obviously.

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INDEX

• Abbot’s Leigh, [8], [11], [17]
• “Abode of Love,” [147]–[150]
• Ad Axium (Uphill), [92]
• Agapemone, The, [147]–[150]
• Allerford, [246]
• Anchor Head, [61], [72]
• Ashley Combe, [256], [259]
• Avon, River, [2], [4], [6]–[19], [124]
• Avonmouth, [3], [17]–[19], [20]
• Axe, River, [91]–[3], [96]
• Badgworthy Valley, [280], [281], [291]–[297]
• —— Water, [291], [294]
• “Bath Bricks,” [121]–[124]
• Bawdrip, [118]–[121]
• Berrow, [102], [111], [113], [116]
• Blackmore, Richard Doddridge [271]–[278]
• Blake, Admiral, [128]–[132], [215]
• Bleadon, [71], [73], [93], [98]
• Blue Anchor, [198], [199], [202]–[206]
• Bossington, [249]–[251], [259]
• Brean, [89], [98]–[102], [116]
• —— Down, [3], [73], [91], [96]
• Brent Knoll, [103]–[110]
• Brentsfield Bridge, [138]
• Bridgwater, [93], [117], [121], [126]–[139], [142], [150], [186]
• Bristol, [2], [6], [18]
• —— Channel, [2], [3], [18], [56], [87], [92], [124]
• Brue, River, [111]
• Burnham, [1], [4], [102], [111], [113]–[116], [159]
• Bussex Rhine, [135], [136], [138]
• Cannington, [93], [139]–[142], [158]
• Charlinch, [148]
• Chedzoy, [135]
• Cleeve Abbey, [189]–[198]
• Clevedon, [1], [13], [22], [23], [24]–[45], [76], [113], [192]
• —— Court, [34], [41]–[44]
• Clifton, [6]–[8]
• —— Suspension Bridge, [3], [8]–[17]
• Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, [26]–[31], [142], [152]–[157]
• Combwich, [158]
• Congresbury, [49]–[53]
• County Gate, [281]
• Culbone, [260]–[268], [281]
• Cynuit, Battle of, [93], [158], [160]
• Danesborough, [142]
• Doones, The, [270]–[298]
• “Doone Valley,” [270], [293], [297]
• Dunball, [117]
• Dunster, [3], [177], [202], [206]–[227]
• East Brent, [106]
• East Quantoxhead, [176]
• Easton-in-Gordano (St. George’s), [19]
• Exford, [281]
• Flat Holm, [73], [87]–[91]
• Folk-speech of Somerset, [168]–[172]
• Glatt-hunting, [174]–[176]
• Glenthorne, [2], [3], [259], [282], [298]
• Gore Point, [256]
• Hallam, Arthur Henry, [25], [32]–[40]
• Highbridge, [111]–[113]
• Hobbs’s Boat, [93]
• Holnicote, [245], [276]
• Hookway Hill, [286], [288]
• Horner, The, [246], [251], [259]
• Horsey Slime, [117]
• Hubba Cock, [160]
• —— Lowe, [160]
• —— Pill, [92]
• Huntspill, [116]
• Hurlstone Point, [256]
• In Memoriam, [32], [34]–[40]
• Kenn, [45], [49]
• Kentsford, [184]
• Kewstoke, [61]–[66]
• Kilton, [167]
• Kilve, [167], [171]–[176]
• Kingston Seymour, [45], [49]
• Langmoor Rhine, [135], [138]
• Lankcombe, [297]
• Lavernock Point, [91]
• Lilstock, [167]
• “Lorna Doone,” [270]–[298]
• Luttrell family, [176], [194], [205], [206]–[208], [212]–[216], [218]–[220], [225], [228], [237]
• Lympsham, [98]
• Lynch Chapel, [244], [251]
• Malmsmead, [291]–[294], [297]
• Minehead, [1], [3], [139], [142], [177], [199], [202], [227]
• Mohun family, [208]–[243]
• Monmouth Rebellion, [132]–[138]
• “Mud-horse,” The, [159]
• Nailsea, [81]
• Nether Stowey, [27], [139], [142]–[154]
• Oare, [260], [269], [277], [279], [286]–[293]
• Oare Water, [286], [288]
• Oareford, [288]
• Old Cleeve, [198]–[202]
• Orestone Point, [259]
• Otterhampton, [158], [160]
• Parret, River, [4], [93], [103], [117], [122]–[125], [126], [127], [140], [142], [161]
• Pawlett, [117], [159]
• Pill, [4], [17]–[19]
• Polden Hills, [117], [135]
• Porlock, [2], [3], [139], [244], [246], [247]–[256], [263], [268], [297]
• —— Weir, [256]–[261], [276]
• Portbury, [19]
• Portishead, [3], [19]–[23]
• Prynne, William, [216]–[218]
• Puxton, [54]
• Quantock Hills, The, [142]–[145], [154]–[157], [179]
• Roadwater (Roodwater), The, [192], [197]
• Robber’s Bridge, [282], [288]
• Rownham Ferry, [8], [9], [11], [13]
• St. Audries (West Quantoxhead), [142], [177]–[179]
• St. Decuman’s, [179]–[186]
• St. George’s (Easton-in-Gordano), [19]
• St. Thomas’s Head, [56], [61]
• Sampford Brett, [185]
• Sand Bay, [55], [61]
• Sedgemoor (“Sedgemere”), [102]–[105], [117], [132], [135]–[137], [277]
• Selworthy, [244]
• South Brent, [106]–[110]
• Spaxton, [147]–[150]
• Steart, [4], [158]–[160]
• Steep Holm, [73], [87]–[90]
• Stogursey, [162]–[167]
• Stoke Pero, [260]
• Stolford, [161]
• Swallow Cliff, [55], [61]
• Tennyson, Lord, [25], [32]–[40]
• Ubbalowe, [160]
• Uphill, [71], [72], [73], [91]–[96]
• Walton-in-Gordano, [23], [30]
• Washford, [199]
• Watchet, [1], [154], [179], [186]–[188]
• Wembdon, [139]
• West Huntspill, [116]
• —— Quantoxhead, [142], [177]–[179]
• Weston Bay, [61]
• Weston, Clevedon, and Portishead Light Railway, [22], [55]
• Weston-in-Gordano, [23]
• Weston-super-Mare, [1], [3], [59], [61], [66]–[78], [113]
• Westonzoyland, [134], [138]
• Wick St. Lawrence, [53], [54]
• Williton, [179]
• Woodspring (or Worspring) Priory, [55], [56]–[61], [84]
• Wordsworth, William, [153]–[157]
• Worle, [49], [55], [71], [84]–[86]
• —— Hill, [61], [62], [73], [78]–[84]
• Worlebury, [78]–[84]
• Wyndham (or Windham) family, [182]–[186], [215]
• —— Lady Florence, [183]–[185]
• Yatton, [46]–[50], [53], [54]
• Yenworthy, [281]–[283]
• Yeo, River, [46], [47], [53], [54]

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