Illustrations

The Guildhall, Exeter[Frontispiece]
Exeter from Exwick[2]
Exeter Cathedral[5]
The Exe: Tiverton[13]
Topsham[41]
Exmouth from Cockwood[45]
Ottery St. Mary[47]
Sidmouth[51]
Branscombe[61]
Beer Beach[65]
Seaton Headland[67]
The Windypost, or Beckamoor Cross[71]
Yes Tor: Dartmoor[73]
Lustleigh Cleave[75]
Wistman's Wood[77]
Widdecombe-in-the-Moor[81]
Sheepstor[83]
Lydford Bridge[84]
Hey Tor[89]
Fingle Bridge[91]
Chudleigh Glen[101]
Teignmouth and Shaldon[103]
Torquay from the Bay[106]
Berry Head[113]
Brixham Trawlers[115]
Postbridge[119]
Dartmeet Bridge[121]
Holne Bridge[123]
Fore Street, Totnes[129]
Sharpham Woods: River Dart[133]
Dartmouth Castle[139]
Salcombe[141]
Bolt Head[146]
Slapton Lea[151]
The Tamar, near Saltash[155]
Drake's Island, Plymouth Sound[171]
Brent Tor. From Lvdford Moors[179]
Tavy Cleave[185]
Brent Tor[198]
Bideford[201]
Appledore[211]
Clovelly[215]
Morthoe[221]
Bull Point: Morthoe[223]
Barnstaple Bridge[227]
Torrington[230]
Lantern Rock: Ilfracombe[244]
Countisbury Foreland[255]
Lynmouth[259]
Malmsmead[263]
Lorna's Bower[265]
Waterslide: Doone Valley[267]
Doone Valley[269]
Powderham Castle[272]
Berry Pomeroy Castle[285]
Compton Castle[295]
Okehampton Castle[297]
Sydenham House[299]
Bradfield[306]
Pynes, near Exeter[308]


Devon


CHAPTER I

Exeter

'Richmond! When last I was at Exeter,
The mayor in courtesy show'd me the castle,
And call'd it Rougemont: at which name I started,
Because a bard of Ireland told me once,
I should not live long after I saw Richmond.'

King Richard III., Act IV, Sc. ii.