South Devon and south Cornwall, with a full description of Dartmoor and the Isles of Scilly . moking-haunt, says tradition, of SirWalter Raleigh, and a spot to which scolds were sometimesbrought to be ducked. The bell of Greenway Ferry may be seenon the right near the landing-stage. We call at Lower Dittishamm., 2 inns), a village occupying the neck of a promontoryon our left, and famous for plums, shrimps, and cockles. The wide part of the stream opposite the Dittisham promontoryis Galmpton Bay, and beyond it round Gurrow Point we obtain, onthe right, a view of Sandridge, the birthplace of Da
South Devon and south Cornwall, with a full description of Dartmoor and the Isles of Scilly . moking-haunt, says tradition, of SirWalter Raleigh, and a spot to which scolds were sometimesbrought to be ducked. The bell of Greenway Ferry may be seenon the right near the landing-stage. We call at Lower Dittishamm., 2 inns), a village occupying the neck of a promontoryon our left, and famous for plums, shrimps, and cockles. The wide part of the stream opposite the Dittisham promontoryis Galmpton Bay, and beyond it round Gurrow Point we obtain, onthe right, a view of Sandridge, the birthplace of Davis, thenavigator (1566), but now a modern mansion in the Italian Dittisham Church is in a wooded dingle on the , on the right, up a little creek—Stokemouth—a momentaryand beautiful glimpse is obtained of Stoke Gabriel church andvicarage, the former displaying a red-belted tower. In thechurchyard is a yew said to be the second largest in narrow and picturesque inlet on the opposite shore of theDart is Bow Creek. We are now about half-way. S. Devon (h). UP THE DART TO TOTNES 115 Over the hill to the south of the creek is the village of Corn-worthy, with some remains of St. Marys Nunnery, said to havebeen founded by thelords of Totnes (p. 116). The ruins consist of afine Perpendicular gate-house with a groined roof to the entrancearch. Then, after calling off Duncannon (ferry) we sweep round to theleft and enter the serpentine windings of Sharpham (7 m.). Herefrom the waters edge upwards the banks are richly wooded withlichen-clad oak and other timber. In a sylvan dingle on theleft is a Swiss-looking little boat-house, and on the same sidethe mansion of Sharpham, white and square, crests the is noted for its rookery and heronry, magnificentgardens, and for being the birthplace of Edwin Drew, Recorderof London. Opposite Sharpham the river forms several channels withintervening islets, and then enters a long straight reach, fo
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