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The inhabitants of some of the villages named by Mr. Hembry have 

 been of the same families for very many years, pei'haps centuries. They 

 are all agricultural villages and (except Cheddar and Winscombe) far 

 removed from any railway. 



In those named by Mr. Elworthy the people have lived for the most 

 part, for many generations, little mixed. On the other hand, Mr. Bennett 

 states that at Sparkford, thii-ty-tive miles from Bath, the village of which 

 he is rector, nearly every inhabitant has been changed within his own 

 memory, and the dialect is rapidly disappearing. 



Devon. 



Places 

 Appledore 

 Northam . 

 Dartmoor . 

 East Bnrtleigh . 

 Hemyock . 

 Dunkerswell 

 Luppit 

 Meshaw . 

 Twitcliing 



East and West Anstey 

 West Down 



Widecombe-in-the-Moor 

 Buckfastleigh . 

 Beer .... 

 Lydford . 



By whom sugfrested 

 Mr. T. Morris Jones, F.G.S. 



Mr. A. L. Lewis. 

 Mr. Elworthy. 



Dr. Beddoe. 



Mr. Jones remarks that, forty years ago, the people of the towns 

 named by him retained many customs or the memory of many customs 

 lost in larger towns. As to each of them the great majority were related, 

 and the family feeling was remarkably strong : they sympathised in each 

 other's joys and sorrows, and reciprocally borrowed and lent to a strange 

 extent. Vessels from Appledore were manned by relatives almost entirely, 

 so far as the coasting trade went, and the large brigs and barques that 

 were in the timber trade between Bristol and Canada, or which carried 

 emigrants, were largely commanded by Appledore captains and manned 

 by Appledore crews, the men often objecting to the admission of a 

 ' stranger.' These men are largely descendants of those who vexed the 

 Spaniards and manned the Bideford whaling fleet in or about the time 

 of Queen Elizabeth, which fleet was the next to that of Hull in import- 

 ance. While Kilkhampton (in North Cornwall) was noted for its Puritan 

 spirit, Appledore was looked upon forty years ago by the people of that 

 neighbourhood as being a place in which no one who feared the Lord 

 would live. There were many alive at that time who recollected the fact 

 of being taught to pray that God would send a ship ashore before morn- 

 ing. The Appledore men were, however, raore noted than the North 

 Cornishmen for fii'st saving life. Seventy to fifty years ago the men of 

 Appledore used to fearlessly venture ' over the bar ' in the worst weather 

 in order to rescue crews. They had no lifeboats, but rowed out in long 

 eight- to twelve-oared galleys. The Appledore people spoke a well-marked 

 variety of the Devonshire dialect. Schools have now almost destroyed it, 

 the result being a mongrel speech with a much more decided nasal twang 

 than forty years ago. 



Beer is a fishing and lace-making village on the borders of Dorset and 

 Devon. 



