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The author surveys the sixty-mile coastline from the Avon estuary west to the North Devon boundary, combining topographical description, local history, and travel observation. Chapters move town-to-town, describing bridges, harbours, cliffs, bays, churches, abbeys, and inns, and noting literary and folkloric associations, notable buildings, and episodic anecdotes such as shipwrecks, smuggling, and local customs. Maps and illustrations accompany sketches of landscape, geology, tidal mudflats, and views across the Bristol Channel. The work blends historical vignettes, architectural detail, and personal routes to present a guided tour of coastal places and their cultural resonance.

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Title: The Somerset Coast

Author: Charles G. Harper

Release date: February 22, 2019 [eBook #58934]

Language: English

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THE SOMERSET COAST


WORKS BY CHARLES G. HARPER

The Portsmouth Road, and its Tributaries: To-day and in Days of Old.

The Dover Road: Annals of an Ancient Turnpike.

The Bath Road: History, Fashion, and Frivolity on an Old Highway.

The Exeter Road: The Story of the West of England Highway.

The Great North Road: The Old Mail Road to Scotland. Two Vols.

The Norwich Road: An East Anglian Highway.

The Holyhead Road: The Mail-Coach Road to Dublin. Two Vols.

The Cambridge, Ely, and King’s Lynn Road: The Great Fenland Highway.

The Newmarket, Bury, Thetford, and Cromer Road: Sport and History on an East Anglian Turnpike.

The Oxford, Gloucester, and Milford Haven Road: The Ready Way to South Wales. Two Vols.

The Brighton Road: Speed, Sport, and History on the Classic Highway.

The Hastings Road and the “Happy Springs of Tunbridge.”

Cycle Rides Round London.

A Practical Handbook of Drawing for Modern Methods of Reproduction.

Stage Coach and Mail in Days of Yore. Two Vols.

The Ingoldsby Country: Literary Landmarks of “The Ingoldsby Legends.”

The Hardy Country: Literary Landmarks of the Wessex Novels.

The Dorset Coast.

The South Devon Coast.

The Old Inns of Old England. Two Vols.

Love in the Harbour: a Longshore Comedy.

Rural Nooks Round London (Middlesex and Surrey).

Haunted Houses: Tales of the Supernatural.

The Manchester and Glasgow Road: This way to Gretna Green. Two Vols.

The North Devon Coast.

Half Hours with the Highwaymen. Two Vols.

The Autocar Road Book.

The Tower Of London: Fortress, Palace, and Prison.

The Cornish Coast. North. [In the Press.

The Cornish Coast. South. [In the Press.


CLIFTON BRIDGE


THE SOMERSET
COAST
BY
CHARLES G. HARPER
Somerset, that pleasant londe which
rennith to the Severn Se.”—Fuller.
London: CHAPMAN & HALL, Ltd.
1909

PRINTED AND BOUND BY
HAZELL, WATSON AND VINEY, LD.,
LONDON AND AYLESBURY.