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bricks and mortar placed at a disadvantage in a 

 contest with sites that are so charmingly rural as 

 to make you feel that they could never have been 

 intended to be built upon ! Imagine, finally, a 

 queer intermingling of town and country, with ferns 

 growing on the houses and on the garden walls, 

 and meeting you at every corner wherever you 

 turn ! Such is Totnes ; and from every part of the 

 little town at the top, at the bottom, and on 

 each side you may get away into the most 

 delightful country. Here is some description of 

 a ramble from Totnes along one of the lovely 

 routes which are spread out like network on every 

 side. 



About half way up the main street of the town, 

 and within a few feet of the spot where, tradition 

 says, Brutus landed the sea then reaching to this 

 elevated point on the hill-side a road leads sharply 

 round to the right. You are nearly midway on 

 the hill, amongst the houses, almost in the heart of 

 the town. But you may, as it were, dive out of 

 it into the road aforesaid, which will suddenly lead 

 you away amongst groves and green fields, woods 



