The Somerset Coast

by Charles G. Harper

HAZELL, WATSON AND VINEY, LD.,

LONDON AND AYLESBURY.

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CONTENTS

Chapter		Page
I	INTRODUCTORY	[1]
II	THE RIVER AVON—CLIFTON SUSPENSION BRIDGE	[6]
III	ABBOT’S LEIGH TO CLEVEDON	[17]
IV	CLEVEDON—LITERARY ASSOCIATIONS: COLERIDGE	[25]
V	CLEVEDON (continued)—LITERARY ASSOCIATIONS: TENNYSON	[32]
VI	YATTON—CONGRESBURY—WICK ST. LAWRENCE	[45]
VII	WORSPRING PRIORY—KEWSTOKE	[56]
VIII	WESTON-SUPER-MARE	[67]
IX	WORLEBURY—WORLE	[78]
X	STEEP HOLM—FLAT HOLM—UPHILL—BREAN DOWN	[87]
XI	BLEADON—BREAN—BRENT KNOLL	[98]
XII	BURNHAM—HIGHBRIDGE—BAWDRIP—“BATH BRICKS”—THE RIVER PARRET	[111]
XIII	BRIDGWATER—ADMIRAL BLAKE—THE MONMOUTH REBELLION	[126]
XIV	CANNINGTON—THE QUANTOCKS—NETHER STOWEY, AND THE COLERIDGE CIRCLE	[139]
XV	STEART—STOGURSEY—THE FOLK-SPEECH OF ZUMMERZET—GLATT-HUNTING AT KILVE—ST. AUDRIES	[158]
XVI	WILLITON—ST. DECUMAN’S AND THE WYNDHAMS—WATCHET	[179]
XVII	CLEEVE ABBEY—OLD CLEEVE—BLUE ANCHOR	[189]
XVIII	DUNSTER	[206]
XIX	MINEHEAD, NEW AND OLD—SELWORTHY—THE HORNER	[227]
XX	PORLOCK—BOSSINGTON—PORLOCK WEIR	[247]
XXI	CULBONE AND ITS REVELS—WHORTLEBERRIES	[260]
XXII	THE “LORNA DOONE COUNTRY”	[270]
XXIII	OARE—MALMSMEAD—THE BADGWORTHY VALLEY—THE “DOONE VALLEY”—GLENTHORNE	[286]
	Index	[299]

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

	Page
Clifton Bridge	[Frontispiece]
Map of The Somerset Coast	[1]
Avonmouth, from Pill	[18]
In Portishead Church	[21]
Coleridge’s Cottage, Clevedon	[28]
Clevedon	[35]
Clevedon Court	[43]
Kingston Seymour	[46]
Yatton Church	[48]
The Rectory, Congresbury	[51]
Woodspring Priory	[58]
Reliquary in Kewstoke Church (Front)	[63]
Reliquary in Kewstoke Church (Back)	[65]
Uphill	[92]
Bleadon Church	[99]
Berrow	[102]
Brent Knoll	[107]
Brent Knoll	[109]
Huntspill	[117]
Birthplace of Admiral Blake	[128]
Bridgwater: St. Mary’s Church, and Corn Exchange	[132]
Westonzoyland	[134]
Cannington	[140]
Nether Stowey; Gazebo at Stowey Court	[143]
The Coleridge Cottage, Nether Stowey	[153]
Nether Stowey	[155]
The “Mud Horse”	[161]
Stolford	[163]
Stogursey Castle	[165]
Kilve Church	[171]
Kilve: The Chantry	[173]
St. Audries	[176]
Bench-end, Sampford Brett; supposed to allude to the Legend of Lady Florence Wyndham	[184]
Watchet; Old Town Hall and Lock-up	[186]
Watchet	[187]
Entrance to Cleeve Abbey	[192]
The Refectory, Cleeve Abbey	[197]
Mysterious Effigy at Old Cleeve	[201]
Blue Anchor	[203]
Coneygore Tower, and Road into Minehead	[207]
Dunster Castle	[210]
Dunster; Castle and Yarn Market	[218]
Dunster Church, from the South, showing old Alcove in Churchyard Wall for the Stocks	[221]
Curious Archway, Dunster Church	[223]
The “Nunnery,” or “High House,” Dunster	[225]
Minehead	[228]
Seventeenth-Century Mantel, “Luttrell Arms” Inn	[230]
Quirke’s Almshouses	[236]
Doorway of the Manor Office	[238]
Minehead Church	[238]
The Manor Office, Minehead	[239]
Rood-Loft Turret, Minehead	[241]
The Clock Jack, Minehead Church	[243]
Lynch Chapel	[244]
Packhorse Bridge, Allerford	[245]
Bossington	[250]
Porlock Church	[252]
Inglenook, “Ship” Inn, Porlock	[254]
“The Ship” Inn, Porlock	[254]
Porlock Weir	[258]
The Lodge, Ashley Combe	[261]
Culbone Church	[263]
Oare Church	[287]
Near Robber’s Bridge	[288]
Interior of Oare Church	[290]
Malmsmead	[293]
Badgworthy Valley	[295]

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