. The North Devon coast. SIR JOHN SCHORNEAND HIS BRAUNTON BURROWS 149 scription; and another relic of the wreck Weazel m 1799, a tablet to the memoryof William Gray, surgeon of the ship, one of theone hundred and six who lost their lives on thatoccasion. A prominent church-like tower, standing onthe crest of a tall hill east of the church, and bythe site of a hilltop chapel of , is lessecclesiastical than it looks, being in fact a politicalmonument commemorating the passing of theReform Bill in 1832. Braunton Burrows are best explored by settingforth from Braunton vi
. The North Devon coast. SIR JOHN SCHORNEAND HIS BRAUNTON BURROWS 149 scription; and another relic of the wreck Weazel m 1799, a tablet to the memoryof William Gray, surgeon of the ship, one of theone hundred and six who lost their lives on thatoccasion. A prominent church-like tower, standing onthe crest of a tall hill east of the church, and bythe site of a hilltop chapel of , is lessecclesiastical than it looks, being in fact a politicalmonument commemorating the passing of theReform Bill in 1832. Braunton Burrows are best explored by settingforth from Braunton village as for Barnstaple ;but, when some little distance out, turning to theright, over the Vellator railway crossing, and thelittle river, or creek, called the Caen. Thence-forward, the way is clear enough for those whoare content to follow the creek to its junctionwith the estuary of the Taw, and so along thesands, past the ship that forms the port of Barn-staple hospital, to the lighthouse. But the trueinwardness of the Burrows is only to be found by
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