All who have travelled through the delicious scenery of North Devon must needs know the little white town of Bideford, which slopes upwards from its broad tide-river paved with yellow sands, and many-arched old bridge, where salmon wait for Autumn floods, toward the pleasant upland on the west.


Westward ho! (ed. 1855)

Charles Kingsley Quotes

All who have travelled through the delicious scenery of North Devon must needs know the little white town of Bideford, which slopes upwards from its...

All who have travelled through the delicious scenery of North Devon must needs know the little white town of Bideford, which slopes upwards from its...

All who have travelled through the delicious scenery of North Devon must needs know the little white town of Bideford, which slopes upwards from its...

All who have travelled through the delicious scenery of North Devon must needs know the little white town of Bideford, which slopes upwards from its...