Bathing Cove, Torquay

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Image: Etched on Devon's Memory
Creator:	Spreat, William
Title:	Bathing Cove, Torquay / [by W.Spreat after W.Williams]
Imprint:	[Exeter] : [W.Spreat]
Date:	[1845?]
Format:	Lith, rounded top ; 135x230mm
Ref. no.:	SC3173

Copies:	WSL: M SC3173

Coverage:	Devon . Torquay . Beaches . Bathing cove . From shore . 1845

Last Updated:	05/01/2005
Contributor:	Williams, W

Associated text:	Croydon, Edward. Guide to watering places on the coast between the Exe and the Dart, including Teignmouth, Dawlish and Torquay. Teignmouth: E. Croydon, 1818. p. 10. BATHING A small cove near the town affords a fine beach for the bathers, and Mr. Pollard has for the accommodation of the town, at considerable pains and expense, built some commodious warm as well as cold baths, at the southern extremity of the pier. [Text may be taken from a different source or edition than that listed as the source by Somers Cocks.]