Holinshed Chronicles: England, Scotland, and Ireland. Volume 1, CompleteHolinshed, Raphael
History
Holinshed Chronicles: England, Scotland, and Ireland. Volume 1, Complete
Holinshed, Raphael
Great Britain -- History -- To 1485; Great Britain -- History -- Tudors, 1485-1603
As for the hauen which in times past as I haue heard, hath béene at
[Sidenote: Sidde.]
Sidmouth (so called of Sidde a rillet that runneth thereto) and
[Sidenote: Seton.]
likewise at Seton, I passe it ouer, sith now there is none at all. Yet
hath there béene sometime a notable one, albeit, that at this present
betweene the two points of the old hauen, there lieth a mightie bar of
pibble stones, in the verie mouth of it, and the riuer Axe is driuen
to the verie east point of the hauen called White cliffe. Thereat also
a verie little gull goeth into the sea, whither small fisherbotes doo
oft resort for succour. The men of Seton began of late to stake and
make a maine wall within the hauen to haue changed the course of the
Axe, and (almost in the middle of the old hauen) to haue trenched
through the Chesill, thereby to haue let out the Axe, & to haue taken
in the maine sea, but I heare of none effect that this attempt did
come vnto. From Seton westward lieth Coliton, about two miles by west
[Sidenote: Colie.]
northwest, whereof riseth the riuer Colie, which going by the
aforesaid towne, passeth by Colecombe parke, and afterward falleth
betweene Axe bridge and Axe mouth towne into the Axe riuer.
By west of Bereworth point lieth a créeke, serued (so farre as I
remember) with a fresh water that commeth from the hilles south of
[Sidenote: Sid.]
Soutleie or Branscombe. Sidmouth hauen is the next, and thither
commeth a fresh water by S. Maries from the said hils, that goeth from
S. Maries aforesaid to Sidburie, & betweene Saltcombe & Sidmouth into
[Sidenote: Autrie aliàs Ottereie.]
the maine sea. By west of Auterton point also lieth another hauen, and
thither commeth a pretie riueret, whose head is in the Hackpendon
hilles, and commeth downe first by Vpauter, then by a parke side to
Mohuns Auter, Munketon, Honniton, Buckewell, and north of Autrie
[Sidenote: Tale.]
receiueth a rill called Tale, that riseth northwest of Brodemburie in
a wood, and from whence it commeth by Pehemburie, Vinniton, and making
a confluence with the other, they go as one betwéene Cadde and Autrie,
to Herford, Luton, Collaton, Auterton, Budeleie, and so into the sea.
On the west side of this hauen is Budeleie almost directly against
Otterton. It is easie to be seene also, that within lesse space than
one hundred yeers, ships did vse this hauen, but now it is barred vp.
Some call it Budeleie hauen of Budeleie towne, others Salterne port,
of a little créeke comming out of the maine hauen vnto Salterne
village, that hath in time past béene a towne of great estimation.
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