Chapter I: Front Matter

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_RIVERS OF THE SOUTH AND WEST COASTS_

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1897

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CONTENTS.

THE SOUTHERN CHALK STREAMS.--_By WILLIAM SENIOR._ PAGE

General Characteristics--The /Canterbury Stour/ and its Branches:
Ashford and Jack Cade--Horton and Lyminge--Canterbury--Fordwich
and Izaak Walton--Isle of Thanet--Minster. The /Lesser Stour/:
"Bourne Ground"--Sandwich. The /Brede/. The /Rother/:
Bodiam--Isle of Oxney--Winchelsea--Seaford. The /Cuckmere/:
Alfriston and Lullington. /The Ouse/: St. Leonard's
Forest--Fletching--Maresfield--Lewes. The /Adur/:
Bramber--Shoreham. The /Arun/: Amberley--Arundel--Littlehampton.
Hampshire Rivers--The /Arle/: The Meon District--Wickham
and the Bishop-Builder--Titchfield. The /Itchen/: A Curious
Example of Instinct--Alresford Pond--Cheriton--Tichborne--The
Winnal Reaches--Winchester and Izaak Walton--St. Cross--St.
Catherine's Hill--Southampton. The /Test/: Romsey and its
Abbey. The /Beaulieu/: Beaulieu Abbey. The /Lymington/
and the /Medina/--The /Hampshire Avon/ and the /Stour/:
Christchurch--Salisbury--Wimborne. The /Frome/: Dorchester--Mr.
Hardy's Country--Poole Harbour 1

RIVERS OF DEVON.--_By W. W. HUTCHINGS._

General Characteristics--Sources of the Devon Streams: Exmoor
and Dartmoor. The /Otter/: Ottery Saint Mary and Samuel
Taylor Coleridge. Exmoor Streams:--The /Exe/: Its Source
in The Chains--The Barle--The Batherm--Tiverton and Peter
Blundell--Bickleigh Bridge and the "King of the Gipsies"--The
Culm--Exeter--Countess Weir--Exmouth. The /Lyn/:
Oareford--The Doone Country--Malmsmead--Watersmeet--Lyndale--Lynton
and Lynmouth. Dartmoor Streams:--The /Teign/:
Wallabrook--Chagford--Fingle Bridge--Chudleigh--The
Bovey--Newton Abbot--Teignmouth. The /Dart/: Holne
Chase--Buckfast Abbey--Dartington Hall--Totnes--The Lower
Reaches--Dartmouth. The Tavy. The /Taw/: Oxenham and
its Legend--Barnstaple--Lundy. The /Torridge/: The
Okement--Great Torrington--Bideford--Hubbastone. The Avon, Erme,
and Yealm. The /Plym/: Dewerstone--The Meavy and Plymouth
Leat--Plympton St. Mary and Plympton Earl--The Three Towns 25

RIVERS OF CORNWALL.--_By HUGH W. STRONG._

The Minor Streams of Cornwall--The /Tamar/:
Woolley Barrows--Morwellham and Weir Head--Morwell
Rocks--Harewood--Calstock--Cotehele--Pentillie--Confluence
with the Tavy--Saltash--The Hamoaze. The /Fowey/: A Change
of Name--St. Neot--Lostwithiel--Fowey. The /Fal/: Fenton
Fal--Tregony--Truro--Tregothnan--Falmouth 54

THE PARRET AND THE LOWER AVON.--_By HUGH W. STRONG._

The /Parret/: Its Source--Muchelney Abbey--The
Tone and Taunton--Athelney Island and Alfred the
Great--Sedgemoor--Bridgwater--Burnham. The /Lower Avon/: Escourt
Park--Malmesbury--Chippenham--Melksham--Bradford-on-Avon--Bath--The
Frome--Beau Nash--Bridges at Bath--The Abbey Church--Bristol--St.
Mary Redcliffe and Chatterton--The Cathedral--"The Chasm"--Clifton
Suspension Bridge--The Lower Reaches--Avonmouth 67

THE SEVERN.--_By the REV. PROFESSOR BONNEY, D.Sc., F.R.S._

CHAPTER I.--/From the Source to Tewkesbury./--Birthplace of the
Severn--Plinlimmon--Blaenhafren--Llanidloes--Caersws--Newtown--
Montgomery--Welshpool--Powys Castle--The Breidden Hills--The
Vyrnwy. Distant Views--Shrewsbury--Haughmond Hill--The Caradoc
Hills--Atcham--Wroxeter--Condover--The Wrekin--Benthall and Wenlock
Edges--Buildwas Abbey--Coalbrook Dale--Ironbridge--Broseley
and Benthall--Coalport--Bridgnorth--Quatford--Forest of
Wyre--Bewdley--Stourport--Worcester--The Teme--Ludlow--Tewkesbury
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CHAPTER II.--/The Upper or Warwickshire Avon./--The
Watershed of Central England--Naseby--Rugby--The Swift--Lutterworth
and Wiclif--Stoneleigh Abbey and Kenilworth Castle--Guy's
Cliff--The Leam--Warwick and its Castle--Stratford-on-Avon and its
Shakespeare Associations--Evesham--Pershore--Tewkesbury 107