About This Book
The book offers a guided account of a southwestern English woodlands area, combining landscape description, antiquarian research, and travel notes. It surveys local scenery and divides the district into regional walks that inspect castles, abbeys, villages, and ancient stones, narrating early and later historical episodes and related legends. Antiquities such as barrows, Roman and Romano-British pottery, and medieval ruins are examined alongside parish registers. Natural-history chapters discuss geology, flowering plants, birds, and lepidoptera. A glossary of provincialisms and lists of plants, birds, and butterflies supplement the text, which is illustrated and mapped to aid readers exploring both history and living landscape.