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
From Teignemouth we came to Tor baie, wherof the west point is called
Birie, and the east Perritorie, betwéene which is little aboue foure
miles. From Tor baie also to Dartmouth is six miles, where (saith
Leland) I marked diuerse things. First of all vpon the east side of
the hauen a great hillie point called Downesend, and betwixt
Downesend, and a pointlet named Wereford is a little baie. Were it
selfe, in like sort, is not full a mile from Downesend vpward into the
hauen. Kingswere towne standeth out as another pointlet, and betwixt
it & Wereford is the second baie. Somewhat moreouer aboue Kingswere
towne goeth a little créeke vp into the land from the maine streame of
the hauen called Waterhead, and this is a verie fit place for vessels
to be made in. In like sort halfe a mile beyond this into the landward
goeth another longer créeke, and aboue that also a greater than either
of these called Gawnston, whose head is here not halfe a mile from the
maine sea, by the compassing thereof, as it runneth in Tor baie.
[Sidenote: Dart.]
The riuer of Dart or Darent (for I read Derenta muth for Dartmouth)
commeth out of Dartmore fiftéene miles aboue Totnesse, in a verie
large plot, and such another wild morish & forrestie ground as Exmore
is. Of it selfe moreouer this water is verie swift, and thorough
occasion of tin-workes whereby it passeth, it carrieth much sand to
Totnesse bridge, and so choketh the depth of the riuer downeward, that
the hauen it selfe is almost spoiled by the same. The mariners of
Dartmouth accompt this to be about a kenning from Plimmouth. The
Darent therefore proceeding from the place of his vprising, goeth on
to Buckland, from whence it goeth to Buckland hole; and soone after
[Sidenote: Ashburne.]
[Sidenote: Buckfastlich.]
taking in the Ashburne water on the one side that runneth from
Saddleton rocke by north, and the Buckfastlich that commeth from north
west, it runneth to Staunton, Darington, Hemston, and there also
crossing a rill on ech side passeth foorth to Totnesse, Bowden, and
[Sidenote: Hartburne.]
aboue Gabriell Stoke, méeteth with the Hartburne that runneth vnder
Rost bridge, two miles aboue Totnes, or (as another saith) by Ratter,
Harberton, Painesford, and Asprempton into Darent, which yon long also
commeth to Corneworthie, Grenewaie, Ditsham, Darntmouth towne
(wherevnto king Iohn gaue sometimes a maior, as he did vnto Totnesse)
from thence betwéene the castelles, and finallie into sea.
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