HANDBOOK FOR TRAVELLERS

IN

WILTSHIRE, DORSETSHIRE,

AND

SOMERSETSHIRE.

FOURTH EDITION.

With Travelling Map and Plans.

LONDON:

JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET,

1882.

LONDON:

PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED,

STAMFORD STREET AND CH RING CROSS.

SINCE the publication of the last Edition of the Handbook of Wilts, Dorset, and Somerset, some new lines of railway have been opened, and other local changes made, which have rendered necessary some rearrangement and many alterations.

The routes have been made, as far as possible, to follow the great lines of railway in unbroken continuity, disregarding the county divisions which are of no practical importance to the tourist. The object aimed at throughout has been the real utility of the Handbook, and the convenience of those who use it.

Additions have been made to every department of the work. Great care has been taken to furnish complete and trustworthy information, corrected as far as possible up to the date of publication. Those who discover mistakes or deficiencies will confer an obligation on the Editor if they will have the goodness to communicate them to him through the Publisher. It is only thus that local Handbooks can attain that degree of accuracy which may be reasonably expected by those who make use of them.

Whatever superiority the present may exhibit over former Editions is chiefly due to the ready co-operation of the numerous friends and correspondents who have aided the Editor by answering his inquiries and transmitting information, to whom he takes this opportunity of tendering his grateful acknowledgments.

Lincoln, July, 1882.

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