Chapter III: Preface: HEADING vii

DECORATION xi

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS xxi

THE WRECK 1

RICHMOND LOCK WORKS 5

RICHMOND BRIDGE 6

NEW INN, HAM 11

HAM HOUSE 14

BELOW KINGSTON 15

“HER HENRY” 18

“W. E. GLADSTONE” 19

STAIRCASE IN ETON COLLEGE 20

WINDSOR: EARLY MORNING 20

CLIEVEDEN 22

DOVE COTE, HURLEY 25

ABOVE HURLEY 26

MEDMENHAM ABBEY 27

POIGNANT INDIVIDUAL 29

EVENING AT HENLEY 33

SONNING BRIDGE 34

INSCRIPTION: SHERBORNE SAINT JOHN 36

HOLY GHOST CHAPEL, BASINGSTOKE 37

ENTRANCE TO THE CLOSE, WINCHESTER 43

WINCHESTER CATHEDRAL 45

ST. SWITHUN AND THE INDIGNANT TOURIST 47

THE DEANERY, WINCHESTER 50

BISHOP MORLEY’S PALACE 52

HIGH STREET, WINCHESTER 52

A PEEP OVER ROOF-TOPS, WINCHESTER 54

SAINT CATHERINE’S HILL FROM ITCHEN MEADS 55

“AD PORTAS,” WINCHESTER COLLEGE 56

BRASS, WEEKE 58

INTERIOR, SPARSHOLT CHURCH 59

ROMSEY ABBEY 66

LYNDHURST 71

A FORD IN THE NEW FOREST 73

“FLASHED PAST” 75

CORFE CASTLE 86

“POLITICS AND AGRICULTURE” 89

“GAZED AFTER US” 90

“EXTREMELY AMUSING, I DO ASSURE YOU” 92

“HUMOROUS WHEELMAN, GARBED FEARFULLY” 101

AXMOUTH, FROM SEATON 105

SEATON BRIDGE 106

“LOATHLY WORM” 107

EXETER CATHEDRAL: WEST FRONT 110

SAINT THOMAS 112

EXETER, FROM THE DUNSFORD ROAD 112

ALPHINGTON 113

AN EXMINSTER MONUMENT 115

EXMINSTER SAINT 116

TURF 119

STARCROSS 120

LANGSTONE POINT 122

MOUNT PLEASANT 123

LEE MOUNT, DAWLISH 124

SEA WALL, TEIGNMOUTH 126

RAILWAY AND SEA-WALL, NIGHT 128

RAILWAY AND SEA-WALL, FROM EAST CLIFF, TEIGNMOUTH 128

THE TEIGN 130

TEIGNMOUTH HARBOUR 131

MAIDENCOMBE 138

BERRY POMEROY CASTLE 147

FROM A MONUMENT, BERRY 149

EASTGATE, TOTNES 151

DARTMOUTH CASTLE 156

ANCIENT IRONWORK, SOUTH DOOR OF SAINT SAVIOUR’S CHURCH, DARTMOUTH 158

ARMS OF DARTMOUTH ON THE OLD GAOL 159

FORE STREET, KINGSBRIDGE 166

HEADMASTER’S DESK, KINGSBRIDGE 170

KINGSBRIDGE QUAY: EVENING 172

BOLT HEAD 178

DRAKE’S STATUE 181

SALTASH STATION 186

GUILDHALL, EAST LOOE, AND BOROUGH SEAL 197

“COMPARATIVELY PROSAIC FISHERMAN” 198

THE “JOLLY SAILOR” 200

SEAL OF WEST LOOE 201

TALLAND CHERUBS 203

AN OLD SHOP, POLPERRO 211

LANTEGLOS-JUXTA-FOWEY 214

A CORNISH MOOR 220

FONT, SAINT AUSTELL 224

A NOTE AT GORRAN 229

ROSELAND INN, PHILLEIGH 236

LANDER 237

CARN BREA 246

DRUIDICAL ALTAR, CARN BREA 248

SAINT MICHAEL’S MOUNT 253

PENZANCE, FROM ABOVE GULVAL 254

SAINT MICHAEL’S MOUNT: ENTRANCE TO THE CASTLE 256

PENZANCE HARBOUR: NIGHT 256

CHEVY CHASE HALL 259

PENZANCE 260

LUDGVAN LEAZE 261

SAINT BURYAN 262

SAINT GERMOE 263

THE LONGSHIPS LIGHTHOUSE 264

CARN KENIDJACK 266

SAINT LEVAN 267

SAINT GERMOE’S CHAIR 268

_From Paddington to Penzance_