CHAPTER I. THE APPROACH 1

“ II. BLACKMORE’S VILLAGE 12

“ III. THE HINTERLAND 33

_LORNA DOONE_

“ IV. BLACKMORE’S SCHOOL 49

“ V. THE TOWN OF THE TWO FORDS 61

“ VI. THE WONDERS OF BAMPTON 77

“ VII. WHERE MASTER HUCKABACK THROVE 89

“ VIII. BROTHERS BARLE AND EXE 107

“ IX. THE HEART OF THE MOOR 122

“ X. BAGWORTHY AND BRENDON 138

“ XI. THE MOUTH OF THE LYN 162

“ XII. ROUND DUNKERY 178

_LORNA DOONE AND THE MAID OF SKER_

“ XIII. GOSSIP-TOWN 201

“ XIV. THE FORGE OF FAGGUS, AND THE CURE OF CHOWNE 216

“ XV. BARUM 241

“ XVI. THE SHORE OF DEATH 256

ENVOY 277

INDEX 281

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

FROM PHOTOGRAPHS BY CATHARINE W. BARNES WARD.

1 On the Lyn, below Brendon _Frontispiece_

FACING PAGE

2 Culmstock Vicarage and Church 9

3 Rectory House at Charles 16

4 Culmstock Church and River 25

5 Hemyock 32

6 Culmstock Bridge 41

7 Old Blundell’s School, Tiverton 48

8 Chapel, Greenway’s Almshouses, Tiverton 73

9 Combe, Dulverton 80

10 A Bit of Old Dulverton 89

11 Torr Steps, Hawkridge 96

12 Winsford 121

13 Landacre Bridge, Exmoor 128

14 Bagworthy Valley 137

15 Brendon, near Oare 144

16 Nicholas Snow’s Farmyard Gate 153

17 Oare Church 160

18 Junction of Lyn and Bagworthy Water 169

19 “The Waterslide,” Lancombe 176

20 The Cheesewring, Valley of Rocks 174

21 Ship Inn, Porlock 185

22 Minehead Church 192

23 Dunster Castle Gate, from the Outside 201

24 Square at Southmolton 208

25 Whitechapel Barton 217

26 Tom Faggus’s Forge, Northmolton 224

27 Chancel, Northmolton Church 233

28 Ashford Church, near Barnstaple 240

29 Barnstaple Bridge 249

30 Tawstock Church, near Barnstaple 256

31 Towards Morte Point 265

32 Combmartin Church 272

Sketch Map of Blackmore Country 288

R. D. Blackmore, from a Photograph by Frederick Jenkins _On the Cover_

THE BLACKMORE COUNTRY