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THE EXETER ROAD 



A quarter of a mile before reaching that town the 

 traveller conies upon a singular debased Gothic toll- 

 house. If he walks or cycles he may pass freely, but 

 all carts and cattle have still to pay toll. This queer 

 survival is known as King's Road Gate, or by the 

 more popular name of ' Copper Castle,' from its once 

 having a peaked copper roof above its carpenter- 

 gothic battlements. 



t'OI'l'ER CASTLE. 



Honiton, whose name is locally ' Honeyton,' is a 

 singularly uninteresting town, with its mother-parish 

 church half a mile away from the one broad street that 

 forms practically the whole of the place. Clean, quiet, 

 and neither very old nor very new, so far as outward 

 appearance goes, Honiton must be of a positively 

 deadly dulness to the tourist on a rainy day ; when 

 to go out of doors is to get wet, and to remain 

 in, thrown on the slender resources for amusement 

 aflorded by the local papers and the ten-years-old 



