Britannia, volume the first, or, An illustration of the Kingdom of England and dominion of Wales by a geographical and historical description of the principal roads thereof, actually admeasured and delineated in a century of whole-sheet copper-sculps : accomodated with the ichnography of the several cities and capital towns, and compleated by an accurate account of the more remarkable passages of antiquity : together with a novel discourse of the present state / by John Ogilby ...

In the Road to Dartmouth.

FRom Plymouth [the Particulars of which are treated in LONDON to the Lands-End, * 1.1 pag. 53.] you pass 2 Ascents and Descents, and at 3 Miles pass through Buckland Craltree a small Village, where you cross Fera Bridg over a Brook, and after by Sultrum, Plimpton (which sendeth Burgesses to Parliament, and hath a small Market on Saturdays) and Plimstock Churches all on the Right, and Burrowton House on the Left, and at 6’5. cross a Vale; thence passing by some Houses on the Road call'd Brixton and Eford, * 1.2 you at 9’5. over Yalm Bridg cross the Yalm, and passing by Adsum House on the Right, and Armington Church some distance on the Left, at 12’6. you ascend an Hill of 2 Furlongs, and at 14’1. enter Modbury a Town of 4 Furlongs Extent, Seated between 2 Hills in a Bottom, and hath an indifferent Market on Saturdays.

Hence by Shilston and Yarncomb Houses some distance on the Left, * 1.3 and several disperst Houses on the Road, through Luckbridg a small Village at 18’4. and through a Wood, * 1.4 cross Gary Bridg, and leave the Church on the Right; and ascending 3 Furl. pass by Morley Church on the Right at 21’6. and through Holwel a Village at 22’7. Seated in a large Vale: whence an irregular Road brings you at 29’3. to a Descent, * 1.5 at the Bottom whereof you enter Dartmouth, a Market and Port-Town, [the Account whereof you have in the Road from Dartmouth to Minhead, pag. 129.]

Backward Turnings to be avoided between Dartmouth and Plymouth.

• 1. 4 Furl. beyond Dartmouth the Right to Dytesham.
• 2. 3’4. Short of Holwel the Right to Totness
• 3. At the end of Holwel the Right to Brent.
• 4. At the end of Modbury the Right and Left acute.

Between Dorchester and EXETER.

• 1. 3’2. From Dorchester the Right to Axmin∣ster.
• 2. 3’7. Beyond Dorchester the Left to Abbots∣bury.
• 3. 4’5. short of Askatham the Left to Tong∣brudy.
• 4. 4’5. Beyond Chidiok the R. to Whitchurch.
• 5. At the End of Shaderton the Right to Ax∣mister.
• 6. 5 Furlongs beyond Lime the Right to Axmister.
• 7. 2 Furlongs beyond Callyford the Left to Seaton.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Plymouth, E.N.E. [3’6. E. by S.] [6’2. S. E.]
• * 1.2

  Efford, 8 Miles. [9’4. E. S. E.] [13 Miles E. by N.] Modbury, 14’2.
• * 1.3

  Luckbridg, 18’4.
• * 1.4

  Holwel, 22’7. E. b. S.
• * 1.5

  Dartmouth, 30 Miles