THE AVON VALE. 



CHAPTER XIII. 



"Ever varied, too, 

 Is the rich prospect : valleys softly sink, 

 And uplands swell — no level sameness tires ; 

 While in the distance, happily disposed, 

 Sweeps round the bold blue moor." 



Ca/rrington, 



Leland says, "Arme Haven is a . . . miles from 

 Saultcombe Haven. The month of this lyith full of Flattes 

 and Rokkes, and no shippe cummith in tempest hither, 

 but in desperation. Two of Philip, King of Castille, shippes, 

 fell to wrack in this haven, when he was driven into Eng- 

 land by tempeste. Arme river cummith to this haven; 

 and, as I have hard say, Aune river likewise." 



Neither Bigbury nor Aveton Gifford are strictly within 

 our limits, both these places being in the hundred of 

 Ermington; but the latter is in the picturesque valley of 

 the Avon, and therefore must have a passing notice. The 

 Giffords were anciently Lords of the Manor of Aveton — 

 hence the name. Sir William Pole says "William Gifford 

 held the same anno 27 of Kinge Hen. III. 



In Morris's " Devonshire," we find the following : — 

 " The church is a fine ancient cruciform edifice, in the 

 Perpendicular style, dedicated to St. Andrew, with a tower 



