The Blackmore country (1911) (14782099225)

Identifier: blackmorecountry00snelrich (find matches)
Title: The Blackmore country
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Snell, F. J. (Frederick John), 1862-
Subjects: Blackmore, R. D. (Richard Doddridge), 1825-1900 Devon (England)
Publisher: London, A. and C. Black
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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es regoremib. Tomake sense, this must be read backwards. Twomodern bells, placed in the Culmstock belfry in1852 and 1853 respectively, awaken proud orpainful memories. The former was cast inmemory of the Duke of Wellington, the costbeing defrayed by subscription, while the latterwas the free gift of James Collier, of Furzehayes,and John Collier, of Bowhayes. John Collier,who was killed by lightning at Bowhayes, wasthe sporting yeoman with the otter hounds, towhom Blackmore alludes. The old house, bythe way, was reputed to be haunted, and foryears no one would live in it. Blackmores description of the vicarage isliterally correct, save that he calls it therectory. A long and rambling house itcertainly is, and the dark, narrow passage, like 32 THE BLACKMORE COUNTRY a tunnel, beneath the first-floor rooms, is a featureexplained by the higher level of the front ofthe house facing southwards upon a grass-plot and a flower-garden, and as pretty as theback wa? ugly (Perfycross, chapter vi.).
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CHAPTER III THE HINTERLAND Although Culmstock and its immediate vicinityis somewhat deficient in what I have ventured toterm live interests, it must not be inferred thatthe neighbourhood has nothing further to show ;and among the objects that deserve to bescheduled as worthy of attention are the colossalstone quarries at Westleigh, which, whetherviewed from the parallel line of railway or fromthe opposite height on which stands BurlescombeChurch, present an imposing spectacle. For agesthey have been the principal source of supply forthe district, huge quantities of limestone havingbeen drawn from them for building and agricul-tural purposes. Much of it was formerly conveyedto Tiverton in barges towed along the canal, theterminus ol which was fitted with a number ofkilns. These, in my boyhood, I have often seenburning, and regarded with no little awe, owingto stories that were circulated of persons havinggone to sleep on the margin, fallen over into theglowing furnace, and been consume