230 KINGSBRIDGE 



Polwhele says, when alluding to a time of rebellion and 

 revolution in 1794, "The active loyalty of every description 

 of persons in Devonshire is beyond all former example. 

 Signal houses were erected on the south coast of Devon in 

 the autumn of that year, and Lieutenants of the Navy 

 appointed to them the 18th of December following. They 

 were situate as follows, viz., Collegrew, Start Point ; Hurter's 

 Top, near the Prawle ; Westore, at the Bolt Head ; Gurnose, 

 Bigbury Bay ; Berry Head, south point of Torbay ; Coleton, 

 near Dartmouth; Beer Head, near Colyton; Westdown 

 Beacon, near Exmouth; and Dawlish Head, near Chudleigh." 



Prawle Point has been thus described : — " The Prawle is 

 principally composed of gneiss rock, which on the western 

 side is weathered like a surface of snow which has been 

 exposed to the sun's rays. It is everywhere broken into 

 crags, and terminated at the point by a singular archway, 

 through which a boat might sail in calm weather. Many 

 years ago the Crocodile frigate was wrecked upon this head- 

 land, with a great loss of life." 



One authority states that "here in the eleventh century 

 the ships of pilgrims touched, on their voyage from Denmark 

 to the Holy Land." 



There is a "coastguard station at this fishing village. 



In the " Londoner's Walk to the Land's End," the follow- 

 ing paragraph occurs respecting the scenery between the 

 Start Point and the Prawle : — " Those who have been 

 disappointed with foreign travel would do well to bend their 

 steps to this little-known part of our own country. One mav 

 journey far before he finds so much to satisfy the eye and 

 charm the imagination, as came before me in this day's 

 wandering." A coastguard, whom the "Londoner" met 

 with, remarked to him, " 'Tis as rough a bit of country as 



