A MOTORIST'S
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.
HIKE.
As Planned by Sir Malcolm Campbell.
the
Gate-It will pay to visit. Grims- romantle spot in all England."The pound, which lies about a mile village of Trevena, which calls south of the main road. Here are tactf Tintagel, is a bleak and remains of, a prehistoric hideous collection of stuccoed villas, character British village of beehive huts, in with all its old-world ruins, encircled by a mud and having been ancrificed to modern- ity. There is, however, a wonder- stone wall,
At Postbridge a modern bridge | ful old post-office dating from the carries the road across the East fourteenth century. Durt, close to a very curious old Of Tintagel Castle, traditional bridge built of unmortared blocks home of King Arthur and his and sinbs of native granite. A knights, there remain only the though the village is comparatively ruined walls standing grim and
its surroundings aro modern, almost inconcolvably ancient.
On the left of the road is the great hill of Bellover Tor, and away on the right is "Wistman's One of the best of all touring Wood," the name probably derived grounds is Devon and Cornwali. from "whisht," is, uncanny. This it is comparatively London, and yet sufficiently near to gaks, bearded with grey avoid spending half the holiday in in a lonely getting there and back.
caravan When I say that motor tours, may also be hired. A should be really interesting, the will ensily tow behind even a low- that this is power car, and will take little off reader may protont merely a platitude. Yet I ques- the average touring speed. Thlu, tion if one motorist in ten really however, matters little. gets more than a fraction of the possible interest from his journey- ings through England.
Ideal Country.
remote from is a weird woodland
Buvere
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their bold hendland.
Our next point of interest is Boscastle, with its harbour entered through a narrow channel with a very abrupt bend. Those who are familiar with both say that it is really a miniature Sebastopol
Tintagel was, after the Conquest, of the stronghold of the Earl Cornwall. It afterwards, became Crown property, but the castle was finally abandoned as a fortress in tour is
the time of Queen Elizabeth. of stunted As a rule, the motor
lichens simply a progression from one
with place to another, possibly through
hollow strewn fails to beautiful scenery which
grent boulders and reputed to be secure its due meed of appreciation
an ideal start-full of snakes. Exeter, which supposed! because of the real or
It is well called uncanny. It is need to arrive at the next stopping ing point, is 173 miles from Lon-
There is place at a scheduled time, What, don-well within the compass uf
or little of interest save the scenery two Indeed, ever the beauty of the countryside, day's run-and is a city replete barely accessible on foot,
with interest. whatever historical interest there may lie upon the three days could be spent in the itself until Tavistock is reached. route, everything must give place city. It is one of the oldest in This is a quite uninspiring town to the arrival at the next hotel in England, and contains many monu-belonging to the Duke of Bedford. ments of the past. The cathedral At one time Tavistock posessed a time for dinner!
a tour.
or
curious
For Westward lo! for a golfing holiday, or to Lynton merely for the a seaside vacation, that is object and the journey ceases to be a tour and there is no more to be sald.
intrigues me,
the
A Gints Boner.
attaching to it.
SATURDAY, JULY 23, 1932.
NIGHTMARE OF THE ROADS. S
Negligent Motorists.
THE QUESTION OF PENALTIES.
gence, and one year or $100 fine)
for eansing injuries by or both) carelessness.
Lord Sumner's Picture The Government were amiably to let the Lords call the
by the annual Increasing slaughter, would have got rid of the speed. limit and increased the authority to use the road of huge vehicles difficult to control, so that any user on elther side of the road had to take his chance-:
ed
Thon you would have answer- érfed Lord Sumper, taking breath and crescendo, "It was a fantastic dream!"
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No Five-Mile Limit Westminster, Juno 7.
Nevertheloan, the Pours declinad to make the forfeiture of licences -/- Motoring, walking, or flying-It
automatic, preferring to leave a was possible to drop into the House of Lords tonight and hear some-
deprival which often entails loss of livelihood in the discretion of tho, thing said on whatever mode of
Court. locomotion captivated one most.
Nor, despite Lord Buckmaster's For completeness the Order Paper ready should have had a paragraph on offence murder and fix as a punish- eloquence, would the Ilouso impose
the driver's five-mile mailing, but the single reminder of ment chopping off
apeed On heavy the sea happened to be the Clean-head,, since Lord Plymouth inrries. The restriction, scoffed sing of Shellfish Bill.
courteously conveyed--they have Lord Moudt Temple would reduco Having heard all three subjects, no intention of permitting the Bill rond transport to baskets of wash- one prefers the Peers' meditations to become law What they are doing ing and baskets of strawberries.
Lord Danesfort did not care; be on motoring, writes A.B. in the instead is to circularise Justices Morning Post. They produced. of the Pence calling their notice was most indignant at the in- Legend of the Bells, among other things an invitation to the grave number of accidents-crousing size of lorries, and, when to Lord Danesfort to go cruising and doubtless hinting that verdicts Lord Crawford observed that all becoming larger, The Church of St. Symphorian the Channel in a bumbont and have tended of late to be generous. yehicles are
Jumped down his throat. to the Lon modern conditions of, the road
Lord Summer, recollecting that i dedicated their churches
"That's just what I complain of,” for years the speed limit was he said, violently. curious how the old Cornish clergy noble purple patch by Lord Summer
It has no bella, fantastic dream.
"So that's it," murmured the That is at my idea of enjoying is one of the finest in the country, magnificent abbey, rule of which minor saints-has a curious legend ja-canditions which he likened to treated by the Courts as a joke, į
doubted if motorists would be con-ather with raised eyebrows. "He People must be getting mixed up Of course if one is bound and there is a church that always remain. When Henry VIII. sup-and the story goes that u peal of
pressed the religious houses the.
"No doubt he would also like to St. Mary Steps, in the old dis-abbey and its lands were given by ells was being brought to Bos- with all these Upper House Bills to Victed whatever their wrong-doing is small,
Approaching the put the motor car driver in his was termed. The one remedy, he trict of Exe Island, has a quaint him to John Russell, first Earl of castle by sea.
and inexorably with the culprit's centary. He would like to cross old clock on the tower, displaying Bedford, and have remained in the labour, the pilot suggested that pince, but possibly Lord Buck-rged, was in dealing natomatically live in the eighteenth or kinoteath
licence.
the Channel in a bumbont and go a seated figure said to be Henry possession of the family ever since. thanksgivings should be offered to master's recent effort will be r
God for their safe passage. The called. VIII-which kicks the hours on a
captain, however, refused, saying The most important objects were Then, gathering inomentum with to his old constituency of York in
due rather
even. pro- thanks were bell, a figure on either side strik-
to the to make a negligent motorist who every word until full stops flashed a stage coach." But In the church of St. Eustachius good ship. Thereupon a furious killed a person guilty of What I have in mind, however,
man by like milestones, the ex-Lawferences such as these, suggested Lord Crawford, would have no is that great army of motorists in the quarters. These figures
are known locally as Matty
are preserved some huge bones, ex-gale arose, the ship was wrecked, slaughter, and if he injured any Lord thundered:
progress "If you had been told before vital effect on the no objective which sets off with
humed from the ruins of the abbey, and all were lost except the plous body, guilty of unlawful wounding. Milter and his two sons, Hrenerys save that of enjoying
which are said to have belonged to pilot! To this day they will tell There was also a pearl of a clause Daimler invented the internal ex-engineering and transport. climate or environment. Starting
Wild and Beautiful.
Thus, after raising a cer Ordulph, who founded the abbey in you that when the winter gales compelling any vehicle of over five plosion engine (did he, by the
the Bill with all the good intentions in the
My route will take us westward the tenth century. If these are blow you may hear the sound of tons to travel at not more than five bye?) that the common roads of dust in transit, world, the majority of such tours through Moreton Hampstead to Indeed his bones, England must the lost bells pealing beneath the miles an hour unless in the open this country coming down from through Committee.
wero to be Of the aerial and ped end in the return of the tourists Tavistock, Liskeard, then turning have bred giants in those days!
country. These legislative, ambi, our forefathers ...
need be said little winer for the trip and fated north through Wadebridge to Lostwithiel is worth a stop. At
From Buscastle, we make tions were, however. rather dis-turned into common highways for topics little in recounting Tintagel, Rosenstle, to be sorry when,
vehicles comparable only to rail-Carriage by Air Bill-wa and the one time the chief seat of govern- their experiences, they find they "Kingsley country" to Appledore ment of the Duchy of Cornwall, it way to Clovelly, with its quaintly mally cramped tonight.
The House decided that few way trains, and that without any terpreting an
of signalling for time vention, sets up a code of have missed must of the interest. and Barnstaple, returning. to lies in a valley, girt about with placed cottages on either side of a
Barrow, cobblestone stairway, The juries would convict on the grave i system
with no respons liability for passengers a Crediton. This wooded hills, the exquisitely grace-
Dick, Tom and as quickly given secon Lakes us through some of theful curly fourteenth century stone ravine at one time was the bed of charge of manslaughter and that schedules, ant ft rushing stream, long since indictments for unlawful wounding bility except on My idea for a tour is that it wildest of the moorland country, lantern spire of the church form-
diverted. Thence we go
on to would stand equally little chance. Harry to whom a licencu has been and the Rights of We measure that assimilates should really be a motoring "hike," to many beauty spots famous in ing a centre. There are several Bideford, Appledore and Barn- The Press, therefore, took out the given
-merely i It should be a pilgrimage of few fact and fiction, and to
"If you had said this was how [of laws long notorious for i places fine estates in the neighbourhood. objectives and no time-table.
where history has been made. Boconnor, four miles east of the staple and, if our imagination does affrighting words and One's style is apt to be a little! Leaving Exeter we take the town and belonging to the Forte-not fail us, we rub shoulders with prescribed penalties-two years im- ther roadways were to be carried and confusion-also obtainco cramped by staying in hotels and route to Moreton Hampstead, a
scue family, was used by Churles 1. the shades of Amyas Leigh, Salva-prisonment for killing by negli-on, and that Parliament, und ered the Peers prompt advanceme therefore of being more or less small market town on the verge of s his headquarters before the tion Yeo, and that band of adven- to wavel to a schedule. Dartmoor. Worth seeing are some battle of Braddor Down, in which turers, real and. traditional, who sca history, conpulled trailer caravan has quaint almshouses; with a alx-the Parliamentary forces were de- nade Elizabethan liminated most of the difficulties teenth century loggia, its columns feated in 1643. Unless we par-whose own land all this corner of "Given reasonably fine wea and arches worked in Dartmoor ticularly want to go on to New England is and always will be.
At Barnstaple we have really quay, beauty spot and seaside can he granite.
The road is very much, up and resort, we can keep away to the finished with the interest of our exceedingly pleasant and comfort-
down, with many steep, and some left here and make for Bodmin and tour. It is but 40 miles now.to aben if weather conditions are dangerous, gradients, though there Wadebridge. This is to be recom-Exeter, by way of Credition, and we shall miss we can return at our leisure hav- not too good it is quite tolerable, is nothing to worry about if your mended, because
and ing. I trust, enjoyed every minute. and, in either case, it renders one brakes are in good condition. To little in the way of seenery independent of hotels and time the south of the town opens up the shall the sooner get to Kingsley's of our journey. tables. I can conceive of no lovely valley of the Toign, and country, with its nasociations and better way of seeing the country there are few more beautiful views and of visiting all the worth-while in the West Country. places along the selected line of route than by the aid of the wotor car and the trailer caravan.
But
here. ther,
No Time Table.
to
the
caravan
touring
Exeler through
traditions of Elizabethan times and its atmosphere of "Westward flo!": Beyond Wadebridge, at St. Kew Highway, we bear left for Trevena and Tintagel.
For the next three miles the road is easy, but then we come to a stretch of four miles of heavy They are not expensive. For going-with steep grades and many Tintagel's Romance. $160 one can acquire a very com- turns-ending in a steep descent fortable vehicle, with plenty of ae- to Postbridge. About three miles Tintagel is probably-1 រំ commodation for two peopic. They before reaching here at Moor almost said certainly-the
Elient, tong-lived
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new
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of
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