Excerpt from Tourist's Guide to North Devon: And the Exmoor District Devon, there is room for a few general observations on the peculiarities of the Northern district of the county, to which the present volume seeks to introduce the visitor. This handbook treats of the whole of Devon N. And W. Of the London and South Western Railway from Axminster to Lydford, and of the Great Western Railway from Lyd ford to Launceston, with so much of Somerset as lies to the W. Of Taunton, exclusive of that thriving town and its pleasant vale. This portion of Somerset is so inlocked with Devon, to which its associations indeed more properly belong, and so distinct from the body of the county to which it is politically attached, that such an arrangement seems by far the more desirable-all the more desirable, further, from the fact that the district is traversed by two railways, which conduct into North Devon from Taunton, and which therefore make that town a convenient centre of approach. There are three railway routes into the North of Devon from London and the Midland and Northern parts of the kingdom. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.