Volume Twelve - Pre-Victorian to the Present Day - further aspects - The Bristol Channel District Guide - selected articles - [1934 Edition] . . . .

Occasionally, Messrs. P. & A. Campbell's steamers provide the opportunity for a trip from Ilfracombe to Padstow (Cornwall). The route takes us past Bull Point Lighthouse and the dreaded Morte Stone, on through Morte Bay, and by the celebrated Woolacombe Sands to Baggy Point. with its fine rocky scenery.

Far ahead there lies Hartland Point -  Ptolemy's " Point of Hercules " - protruding into the ocean, and on our right can be traced the great sea-rock of Lundy, ten miles from the English coast (see description in Ilfracombe chapter).

We now steam through Barnstaple Bay, and abreast of Braunton Burrows - a hilly desert of sand which is said to cover " a standing forest of trees and is literally alive with rabbits. "

Next we come within distance of the spot where, to quote Kingsley, Torridge joins her sister and both together flow quietly towards the blue surges of the bar. " The little white town of Bideford "  and Instow, a small watering-place, are on the Torridge's " broad tide-river paved with yellow sands, " and also Appledore, an old seaport, with its burrows, and the remarkable two-mile pebble ridge of Westward Ho !