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SOUTH DEVON DRAKE'S DREAMLAND

Written by Edmund Burton
Published by Littlebury & Company Ltd.

SOUTH DEVON DRAKE'S DREAMLAND
Written by Edmund Burton.
Stock no. 814038
Circa. 1951. Hardback. Nearly fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Blue cloth, black titles. B/w photos. Book: Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Dustwrapper: corners rubbed.

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Cover of SOUTH DEVON DRAKE'S DREAMLAND by Edmund Burton

Contents

  • PART 1.
  • CONTENTS
  • Chapter
  • I. Pixieland
  • II. County of Cream, Cider, Culture and Curiosity
  • III. St. Peter of Exeter
  • IV. Around and About St. Peter's
  • V. City of Churches
  • VI. The March of Time!
  • VII. Topsham . . . Exmouth . . . Littleham
  • VIII. Budleigh Saltertron and East Budleigh . . . Hayes Barton, the Birthplace of Raleigh
  • IX. Otterton . . . Bicton . . Colaton Raleigh . . . Sidmouth
  • X. Rockbeare . . . Ottery St. Mary . . . Honiton . . . Axminster
  • XI. Tiverton and Crediton
  • XII. Crockernwell . . . Fingle Bridge . . . Drewsteignton . . . Okehampton
  • XIII. Newton Abbot
  • XIV. Forde House and Bradley Manor
  • XV. Haccombe . . . Shaldon . . . Teignmouth
  • XVI "The Cathedral of the Moor"
  • XVII. Wind on the Heights . . . Dartmeet . . . Princetown
  • XVIII. Lustleigh and its Old Manor . . . Moreton Hampstead . . . Chagford
  • PART 2
  • CONTENTS
  • Chapter
  • I. Ashburton . . . The Curiosities of Buckland-in-the-Moor
  • II. A Monument to Faith
  • III. Bovey Tracey . . . Chudleigh
  • IV. Torquay . . . Torre Abbey . . . The Museum of Natural History and Cave of Mystery
  • V. "The Red Earth of Devon"
  • VI. Babbacombe and Oddicombe . . . The Story of John Lee
  • VII. Paignton and Brixham . . . Dutch William and "The Bells of St. Mary's"
  • VIII. "The Nursery of the Navy"
  • IX. Dittisham . . . Kingsbridge . . . Salcombe . . . Portlemouth
  • X. Stoke Gabriel . . . Sandridge and John Davis . . . Waddeton Court
  • XI. Compton Castle . . . Marldon . . . Cockington
  • XII. Berry Pomeroy and Little Hempston
  • XIII. Totnes
  • XIV. Broadhempston and Dartington Hall
  • XV. Cornworthy . . . . Ashprington . . . Sharpham
  • XVI. "Lady of the West"
  • XVII. Buckland Monachorum . . . Yelverton . . . Tavistock
  • XVIII. Lydford . . . The End of the Trail