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to enter upon here. Notwithstanding this discouraging state 

 of things, another scheme has been discussed. We extract 

 from an article in the Kingsbridge Gazette, dated October 

 24th, 1873. — "The promoters of the new Coast Line of 

 Railway express great confidence in the success of their 

 scheme, and hope they may be able to carry it out without 

 an Act of Parliament. We believe that if they get the 

 consent of all the landowners through whose property the 

 line passes, they can proceed to make it without parlia- 

 mentary sanction; and seeing that when the Brent line 

 was before the public, the major part of the landowners 

 along the line of the proposed coast railway hung back 

 from the Brent scheme, and advocated such a one as now 

 proposed, it is only fair to argue that at least they will not 

 object to this being carried out, even if they do not actively 

 support it. Kingsbridge people now will not care much 

 which line is made : they want railway accommodation, 

 and how it comes they will not greatly care." Whether 

 any of the present generation will live long enough to see 

 locomotive engines bustling in and out of a railway station 

 at this place, remains to be proved. In the meantime, let us 

 enquire a little about " Kingsbridge and its Surroundings." 



Kingsbridge is a small market town and parish, but the 

 metropolis (one may say) of the Union to which it gives its 

 name.* It is in the Deanery of Woodleigh, Archdeaconry 

 of Totnes, Diocese of Exeter, and Hundred of Stanborough, 

 South Devonshire; distant five miles north from Salcombe 

 Harbour, nine miles and a half south from Kingsbridge Road 

 Station (on the South Devon Railway), twenty miles from 

 Plymouth, and about 231 miles from London. 



* The Union House is in the parish of Chnrchstow. 



