#Dartmouth# (6579), a market-town, and favourite resort of
yachtsmen, and formerly a port of great importance, at the narrow
entrance of the Dart estuary, is a place of exceptional beauty and of
great historic interest, built in terraces on a steep, wooded hill.
In the old town along the quay and in the Butter-Walk are fine old
Elizabethan houses. St Saviour's, one of its four churches, dates
from 1372, and has a splendid rood-screen and a very fine pulpit. The
land-locked harbour was guarded by two castles. On a hill above the town
is the great white building of the naval college, which has superseded
the old training-ship _Britannia_. (pp. 23, 74, 75, 129, 130, 132, 140,
147, 172, 175, 176, 191, 200, 210, 212, 218, 222.)
[Illustration: Dartmouth, from Warfleet]
#Dawlish# (4287) is a charming and highly popular watering-place
with fine sands and beautiful red cliffs, in a sheltered combe, south of
the estuary of the Exe. A pretty pleasure garden called the Lawn, with a
stream through it, divides the new town from the old. (pp. 69, 80, 128.)
#Devonport# (70,437) is a parliamentary, municipal, and county
borough, on high ground above the estuary of the Tamar, two miles
west-north-west of Plymouth, one of the chief naval arsenals in Britain,
with government establishments--dockyards, barracks, magazines,
etc.--stretching nearly four miles along the Hamoaze, a great anchorage
for men-of-war. (pp. 79, 118, 210, 212.)
#Drewsteignton# (673), a large village near the Teign, not far from
which is the Spinster's Rock, the only cromlech in Devonshire. (p. 154.)
#Exeter# (47,185), the capital of Devonshire, and long regarded
as the Key of the West of England, is a picturesque old city, standing
on high ground above the Exe, which passes through the town. It is a
port, with a large basin connected with the estuary of the Exe by a
canal. A municipal, county, and parliamentary borough, it has factories
of agricultural implements and gloves, and there are large nurseries
round it. Of its castle of Rougemont, built by the Conqueror in 1067,
little now remains. But its magnificent cathedral, which contains
many most beautiful and interesting features, is the finest example
of the Decorated style of architecture in England. Other interesting
or important buildings are the Deanery, the House of the Abbots of
Buckfast, Mol's Coffee House, the Guildhall, and the Albert Memorial
Museum.
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