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but when this design had been partially effected, a dispute 

 arose as to the freehold right, and the work remained 

 unfinished till 1816, when it was completed by a public 

 subscription. 



In the year 1804, a spot of ground on the east side 

 of the Estuary was selected by the late Lieutenant-General 

 Simcoe, and temporary barracks were erected thereon to 

 contain six hundred men. Various regiments occupied them 

 during the war : the materials of these structures, however, 

 were disposed of by auction in the spring of 1815, but 

 some of the buildings, particularly the hospital, having 

 been purchased by the owner of the land, are yet suffered 

 to remain, and are occupied by different families. We 

 have been told that the bakehouse which belonged to the 

 barracks now forms part of the house once known as Ivy 

 Cottage. Winsor Lodge was erected in one of the fields, 

 by Mr. Andrew Winsor, in 1818. High-house, a seat 

 situated on these lands, is about half a mile to the east, 

 but not in sight of the water. 



We must not omit to notice the Shipwright's Yard, where 

 many a well-built vessel is constructed, to be employed in 

 the foreign fruit trade, or some other branch of commerce. 

 Date's yard presents a busy scene, and is especially attractive 

 to the population of Kingsbridge and Dodbrooke when it 

 becomes known that a launch is to take place. There is 

 generally, at such times, a large gathering assembled to 

 watch the new vessel make her first plunge into the tide. 

 This yard was first established in 1837. Vessels are there 

 built of from one hundred to five hundred tons burden; 

 the largest, as yet, five hundred and fifty tons; and the 

 average number of men employed, forty. 



Complaints having been made that the public path 



