Roadside Hostelries: No. 3: … (reminiscences) … In the course of a few minutes, you then find on your left the Chatham monument, and there’s a very fine and extensive view all over the moors, away to North Curry and Sedgmoor. There used to be a very fine old mansion close to the monument, but I fancy it is pulled down; the village is called Burton Pinsent and many an hour have I spent there. When Mr. Robert Cuffe was alive the old North Devon coach used to change horses from his farm stables (at Burton House), which were let to Mr. Whitmarsh. In a few minutes you are in the village, or town, of Curry Rivel … …
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