Tavistock from the Launceston Road, 1832

A steel line engraving of Tavistock from the Launceston Road, engraved by S. Fisher after a drawing by Thomas Allom. Originally published in Devonshire and Cornwall Illustrated, London: Fisher and Jackson, 1832.

An extract from the accompanying text reads:

"... few country towns can boast so good an approach as that of Tavistock from the Plymouth road. On the right, opposite the church, is the extensive imitative gothic façade of the Bedford Arms Inn; in front are various old embattled and turreted buildings, which belonged to the Abbey; and near these is the modern public library, with its Doric portico: the view is otherwise diversified by numerous ivied fragments of the ancient monastic offices."- p.47.

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