A HISTORY OF DEVONSHIRE 



T. W. Gissing in the Phytolopst, June 1855, 'Botanical notes from South Devon,' p. 29. 



Fred. Mackenzie in the Transactions of the Devonshire Association, 1865, i. pt. 4, 68-71, ' On the 

 flora of the neighbourhood of Tiverton.' 



Rev. W. Moyle Rogers in the Journal of Botany, 1878, pp. 15-25, 'Notes on some south-east 

 Devon plants' ; and 1879, PP- 9~'3> '^" some south-east Devon plants.' 



The same Author in the same Journal, 1882, pp. 70-6, 121-4, 133-6, 177-83, 206-9, 239-43, 

 262-6, 'A contribution towards a Flora of the Teign Basin, S. Devon.' 



W. S. M. D'Urban : 'A sketch of the Natural History of the neighbourhood of Exeter,' extracted 

 from Besley's Book of Exeter (i%']i), ed. ii. pp. 105-11, 'Botany' ; this account included plants 

 from the Honiton and Torquay besides the Exeter botanical district. 



Miss Helen Saunders in xh.^ Transactions of the Devonshire Association, 1901, xxxiii. 473, 'Botani- 

 cal Notes, No. ii.' 



Thomas Richard Archer Briggs in the Journal of Botany, 1 884, pp. 172, 174, ' On some Devonian 

 stations of plants noted in the last century.' 



5. Honiton 



This district consists of the eastern or Honiton parliamentary division, excluding how- 

 ever the parish of Churchstanton (transferred in 1896 from Devon to Somerset) and including 

 the parishes of Chardstock and Hawkchurch (transferred at the same time from Dorset to 

 Devon) ; it contains about 173,178 acres, being about 171,078 acres of land, inland water 

 and saltmarsh, besides about 2,100 acres of foreshore and tidal water. It is bounded on the 

 west by the Exeter botanical district, on the north by the county of Somerset, on the east by 

 the county of Dorset, and on the south by the English Channel ; it consists of the four petty 

 sessional divisions of Axminster, Honiton, Ottery and Woodbury ; it comprises 60 civil 

 parishes, all of which are drained to the south coast, 53 being rural and 7 urban ; it contains 

 all the 16 parishes of the Axminster poor-law union, 26 out of the 29 parishes of the Honiton 

 union, and 18 out of the 50 parishes of the St. Thomas union. The most easterly part of the 

 county is in the parish of Hawkchurch on the Dorset border. 



The principal rivers are the Clyst, the Otter, the Sid, and the Axe with its tributary 

 the Yarty ; the estuary of the Exe forms part of the western boundary. 



The highest part of the district is near Sheldon, about 930 feet above sea-level. 



The following is a complete list in alphabetical order of the civil parishes in the dis- 

 trict : — 



Awliscombe 



Axminster 



Axmouth 



Aylesbeare 



Beer 



Bicton 



Branscombe 



Buckerell 



Budleigh Salterton (urban) 



Chardstock 



Clist Honiton 



Clist St. George 



Clist St. Mary 



Colaton Raleigh 



Colyton 



Comberaleigh 



Combpyne 



Cotleigh 



Dalwood 



Dunkeswell 



East Budleigh 



Farringdon 



Farway 



Feniton 



Gittisham 



Harpford 



Hawkchurch 



Honiton (urban) 



Kilmington 



Littleham and Exmouth (urban) 



Luppitt 



Lympstone 



Membury 



Monkton 



Musbury 



Newton Poppleford 



Northleigh 



OffWell 



Otterton 



Ottery St. Mary (urban) 



Rockbeare 



Rousdon 



Salcombe Regis (urban) 



Seaton (urban) 



Sheldon 



Shute 



Sidbury 



Sidmouth (urban) 



Southleigh 



Sowton 



Stockland 



Talaton 



Uplyme 



Upottery 



Ven Ottery 



Whimple 



Widworthy 



Withycombe Raleigh 



Woodbury 



Yarcombe 



The New Red Sandstone formation occupies most of the western portion of the district, 

 and extends to Honiton as well as along the valley of the Otter to the Somerset county 

 boundary ; it also ascends the valleys of the Sid and the Axe and most of their tributary 

 streams. 



The Cretaceous beds occupy the chief part of the rest of the district, mostly on the 

 eastern portion ; there is also a patch of it at Blackhill near Withycombe Raleigh. 



The Lias beds extend along the cliffs from Culverhole Point eastwards to the Dorset 

 boundary, also inland about Uplyme, and around Axminster except the western side. 



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