PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION, 



"Kingsbridge Estuary, with Rambles in the Neighbour- 

 bourhood," was published about ten years since. 



The writer has now prepared a second edition; and 

 having endeavoured to render it more complete as a local 

 history, she trusts it will be found better worth perusal than 

 its predecessor, from which it differs in so many respects 

 that it has been deemed best to alter the title to " Kings- 

 bridge and its Surroundings." 



She desires to offer her best thanks to those kind friends 

 who have so readily responded to her inquiries for infor- 

 mation, either by the loan of books, or by written or verbal 

 communication. 



Some additional information, in connection with pages 

 61, 88, and 112 to 114, which was received too late for 

 insertion in the body of the work, will be found in the 

 appendix. 



Fore Street Hill, Kingsbridge, 1874. 



