...are not restricted to ecclesiastical buildings. The author, speaking of Bideford Bridge, says :— " All do not know how, when it began to be built some half mile higher up, hands invisible carried Ibe ptones down stream each night to the present site, until Sir Richard Gurney, pardon of the parish,...

...advanced and animated the said wondrous bridge for now five hundred years, and made it the chief wonder, according to Prince and Fuller, of this fair land...mile higher up, hands invisible carried the stones downstream each night to the present site ; until Sir Richard Gurney, parson of the parish, going to...

...advanced and animated the said wondrous bridge for now five hundred years, and made it the chief wonder, according to Prince and Fuller, of this fair land...mile higher up, hands invisible carried the stones down-stream each night to the present site; until Sir Richard Gurney, parson of the parish, going to...

...advanced and animated the said wondrous bridge for now five hundred years, and made it the chief wonder, according to Prince and Fuller, of this fair land...mile higher up, hands invisible carried the stones downstream each night to the present site; until Sir Richard Gurney, parson of the parish, going to...

...advanced and animated the said wondrous bridge for now five hundred years, and made it the chief wonder, according to Prince and Fuller, of this fair land...an alms-giving bridge ; an educational bridge ; a sentientjiridge ; and last, but not least, a dinner-giving bridge. All do not know how, when it began...

...its head high, and bear itself with the dignity of a landed proprietor, becoming, first and last, " an inspired bridge, a soul-saving bridge, an alms-giving...and last, but not least, a dinner-giving bridge." It was to the Grenviles that Bideford owed its early prosperity. The first Grenvile of Bideford was...

...have advanced and animated the said wondrous bridge for now 500 years, and made it the chief wonder, according to Prince and Fuller, of this fair land...All do not know how, when it began to be built some half-mile higher up, hands invisible carried the stones down-stream each night to the present site...

...adorned and animated the said wondrous bridge for now five hundred years ; and made it the chief wonder, according to Prince and Fuller, of this fair land...bridge, an alms-giving bridge, an educational bridge, a sentinel bridge, and last, but not least, a dinner-giving bridge. All do not know how, when it began...

...have advanced and animated the said wondrous bridge for now 5°° years, and made it the chief wonder, according to Prince and Fuller, of this fair land...bridge. All do not know how, when it began to be built 1 6a BIDEFORD. some half-mile higher up, hands invisible carried the stones down stream each night...

...soul around which the town, as a body, has organized itself ; " its demeanour is philanthropic, ' ' being first an inspired bridge, a soul-saving bridge, an alms-giving bridge, an educational bridge, and last, but not least, a dinner-giving bridge." For the how and the why of all this let the reader...