. The North Devon coast. ^boulders, brought by willing hands from the famedPebble Ridge. The whole thing forms a home-made loyal and patriotic memorial of the secondJubilee of Queen Victoria, witli additions suggested BLOODY CORNER 199 by later events, together with an aspiration that these shores may never be without brave andpious mariners, who will count their lives asworthless in the cause of their country, their. BLOODY CORNER. Bible, and their Oueen. But other people besidethe mariners must do their part also. There is little deserving notice in the neigh-bouring church, except the quain
. The North Devon coast. ^boulders, brought by willing hands from the famedPebble Ridge. The whole thing forms a home-made loyal and patriotic memorial of the secondJubilee of Queen Victoria, witli additions suggested BLOODY CORNER 199 by later events, together with an aspiration that these shores may never be without brave andpious mariners, who will count their lives asworthless in the cause of their country, their. BLOODY CORNER. Bible, and their Oueen. But other people besidethe mariners must do their part also. There is little deserving notice in the neigh-bouring church, except the quaint inscription on 200 THE NORTH DEVON COAST the interior wall of the north aisle : This yelewas made anno 1593. Let us, then, press on toAppledore, passing Bloody Corner, so-called byreason of the defeat of the Danes here in 882by King Alfred the Great, when the Danishchieftain, Hubba, was numbered among the Stone, where the landing of the invaderswas effected, lies near the shore of the recently erected memorial by the waysidemarks the Corner, and a row of even more recentlyerected cheap cottages, opposite, serves effectuallyto dilute any feelings of romance. Appledore (whose name has really nothing todo with apples, but derives from two wordsmeaning water-pool) stands at the veryentrance to the Torridge estuary. On the oppositeside is Instow. Appledore is a decayed port ; a fishing
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