INTRODUCTORY NOTICE. SINCE the publication of the last Edition of the Handbook of Wilts, Dorset, and Somerset, some new lines of railway have been opened, and ther local changes made, which have rendered necessary some rerrangement and many alterations. The routes have been made, as far as possible, to follow the great ines of railway in unbroken continuity, disregarding the county livisions which are of no practical importance to the tourist. The bject aimed at throughout has been the real utility of the Handbook, nd the convenience of those who use it. Additions have been made to every department of the work. Great are 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 hrough the Publisher. It is only thus that local Handbooks can attain that degree of accuracy which may be reasonably expected by hose who make use of them. Whatever superiority the present may exhibit over former Editions s 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 endering his grateful acknowledgments. Lincoln, July, 1882. E. V. |