Produced by Chris Curnow, Barry Abrahamsen, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) THE SOMERSET COAST ------------------------------------------------------------------------ WORKS BY CHARLES G. HARPER The Portsmouth Road, and its Tributaries: To-day and in Days of Old. The Dover Road: Annals of an Ancient Turnpike. The Bath Road: History, Fashion, and Frivolity on an Old Highway. The Exeter Road: The Story of the West of England Highway. The Great North Road: The Old Mail Road to Scotland. Two Vols. The Norwich Road: An East Anglian Highway. The Holyhead Road: The Mail-Coach Road to Dublin. Two Vols. The Cambridge, Ely, and King’s Lynn Road: The Great Fenland Highway. The Newmarket, Bury, Thetford, and Cromer Road: Sport and History on an East Anglian Turnpike. The Oxford, Gloucester, and Milford Haven Road: The Ready Way to South Wales. Two Vols. The Brighton Road: Speed, Sport, and History on the Classic Highway. The Hastings Road and the “Happy Springs of Tunbridge.” Cycle Rides Round London. A Practical Handbook of Drawing for Modern Methods of Reproduction. Stage Coach and Mail in Days of Yore. Two Vols. The Ingoldsby Country: Literary Landmarks of “The Ingoldsby Legends.” The Hardy Country: Literary Landmarks of the Wessex Novels. The Dorset Coast. The South Devon Coast. The Old Inns of Old England. Two Vols. Love in the Harbour: a Longshore Comedy. Rural Nooks Round London (Middlesex and Surrey). Haunted Houses: Tales of the Supernatural. The Manchester and Glasgow Road: This way to Gretna Green. Two Vols. The North Devon Coast. Half Hours with the Highwaymen. Two Vols. The Autocar Road Book. The Tower Of London: Fortress, Palace, and Prison. The Cornish Coast. North. [_In the Press._ The Cornish Coast. South. [_In the Press._ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Illustration: CLIFTON BRIDGE] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ THE SOMERSET COAST BY CHARLES G. HARPER “_Somerset, that pleasant londe which rennith to the Severn Se._”—FULLER. [Illustration: Publisher’s Logo] LONDON: CHAPMAN & HALL, LTD. 1909 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PRINTED AND BOUND BY HAZELL, WATSON AND VINEY, LD., LONDON AND AYLESBURY. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CONTENTS