BOTANY 



northern sea coast of Devonshire, and no part of it is more than 13 miles distant from 

 that coast ; its drainage is wholly to the north coast ; it comprises fifty-seven civil parishes. 

 The principal rivers are the Torridge with its tributary the (West) Yeo, the Taw (with its 

 tributaries the Caen, the Brady and the North Yeo), the Heddon, and the West and East Lyn ; 

 it includes the most northerly (Foreland Point in Countisbury) and the most westerly (Knap 

 Head in Hartland) parts of the county. It consists of the petty sessional divisions of Bideford 

 and Braunton and the municipal boroughs of Bideford and Barnstaple ; it comprises the 

 seventeen parishes of the Bideford poor-law union and the forty parishes of the Barnstaple 

 union ; fifty-one of the parishes are rural and six are urban. The highest part is Chapman 

 Barrows, 1,575 feet above sea-level, at a point about 4 miles distant from the coast. 



The following is a complete list 

 district : — 



in alphabetical order of the civil parishes in the 



Abbotsham 



Alwington 



Arlington 



Ashford 



Atherington 



Barnstaple (urban) 



Berry Narbor 



Bideford (urban) 



Bishop's Tawton 



Bittadon 



Bratton Fleming 



Braunton 



Brendon 



Buckland Brewer 



Bulkworthy 



Challacombe 



Clovelly 



Combmartin 



Countisbury 



East Down 



East Putford 



Fremington 



Georgeham 



Goodleigh 



Hartland 



Heanton Funchardon 



High Bray 



Horwood 



Ilfracombe (urban) 



Instow 



Kentisbury 



Landcross 



Landkey 



Littleham near Bideford 



Loxhore 



Lundy Island 



Lynton (urban) 



Martinhoe 



Marwood 



Monkleigh 



Morte-Hoe 



Newton St. Petrock 



Newton Tracey 



Northam (urban) 



Parkham 



Parracombe 



Pilton, East (urban) 



Pilton, West 



Sherwill 



Stoke Rivers 



Swimbridge 



Tawstock 



Trentishoe 



Welcombe 



West Down 



Westleigh 



Woolfardisworthy near Bideford 



Nearly the whole of the part of the district which lies north of Barnstaple town and on 

 the Devon and Somerset branch of the Great Western Railway belongs to the Devonian period, 

 the successive beds of which are arranged in nearly parallel strips. The Lower Devonian 

 formation includes the Foreland sandstones and the Lynton beds ; the Foreland sandstones 

 occupy the north coast from Lynmouth to the Somerset county boundary, and are mainly 

 limited on the south by a line about 4^ miles long from Lyndale to tlie county boundary 

 about 2 miles inland from Glenthorne ; the Lynton slates and grits come next, and are limited 

 on the south by a line about 7 miles long, starting from the coast at Woody Bay, passing by 

 Barbrook Mill and reaching the county boundary, the breadth of the area being about i^ 

 miles opposite Lynmouth and about two-thirds of a mile near the county boundary. The Middle 

 Devonian formation includes the Hangman grits, the Ilfracombe slates and limestones, and the 

 Morte-Hoe slates. The Hangman grits run along the south side of the Lynton beds, and are 

 limited on the south by a line about 9^ miles long, starting from Lester ClifF near Comb- 

 martin, passing by Parracombe rectory and reaching the county boundary on Thorn Hill in 

 the south-eastern part of Lynton parish, the breadth of the area being mostly about 2 miles ; 

 the Ilfracombe slates and limestones follow next, and are limited on the south by a line about 

 15^ miles long, starting from the north coast at Lee Bay near Ilfracombe, passing by Kentis- 

 bury Ford and reaching the county boundary near Moles Chamber, the breadth of the area 

 being mostly 2^-2^ miles ; the Morte-Hoe slates form the next beds, and are limited on the 

 south by a line about 1 7 miles long, starting from the coast at Woolacombe, passing by West 

 Down village and Smithapark in Loxhore, and extending to the point where the South Molton 

 botanical district reaches the coilnty boundary near North Twitchen in the north part of North 

 Molton, the breadth of the area being mostly about 2 miles. 



The Upper Devonian formation includes in following order the Pickwell Down sand- 

 stones, the Cucullaea or Marwood or Baggy beds, and the Pilton beds. The Pickwell Down 

 sandstones are limited on the south by a line about 17 miles long, starting from Bloodhill on 

 the south side of Morte Bay, passing by Georgeham and Sherwill villages and nearly reaching 

 Holswater Bridge in High Bray, after crossing about a mile and a half of the parish of Charles 

 in the South Molton botanical district before entering the parish of High Bray, the breadth of 

 the area being about 2 miles at the western end and i— i^ mile towards the eastern end ; the 

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