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APPENDIX.
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RAILWAY ITINERARIES.
L BRISTOL TO EXETER AND PLYMOUTH BY BRISTOL AND EXETER
AND SOUTH DEVON RAILWAYS.
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Long Ashton. In the
church is a carved
screen, and some mo¬
numents of the Chokes
family.
Ashton Court, ai
house with a front by
Inigo Jones. Has *
large portrait gallery.
JSS Leigh Court, T
Miles, Esq., 2 miles
Coombe House.
[ 114. A session
town in the adjoining
counties of Somerset
and Gloucester; Smiles
in circumference, and
covering about 1600
acres. Supposed to
have been inhabited be¬
fore the Roman inva¬
sion ; was defended
after the Conquest by
a strong fortress, which
was demolished by
Cromwell. St. James’s
Church, the nave oi
which still stands, was
erected in the 12th
century. Returns two
M.P.’s, and contains
about 160,000 inhabi¬
tants. As a port it is
now of great wealth and
consequence.
Tunnel 300 feet long.
Nailsea.
IChsrleton House.
Jgj Branch to Cleve-
don, 4 m. distant, and
134 m. from London.
Bedminster belongs to
the Bristol New County
Courts. The church is
partly ancient. Veins
of strontian occur in
the immediate vicinity.
Dundry. Has a beacon
700 feet above the sea
level, commanding one
of the most extensive
and beautiful prospects
in the west of England.
Stanton Drew, witli its
druidical circle, is in
the distance.
Barrow Gurney.