The church, built in the reign of Edward IV. and restored in 1876, has one of the highest towers in Cornwall.  The interior has a good timber roof, a carved oak pulpit, an old font, and several interesting monuments to the Treffry and Rashleigh families.

The finest and most interesting house in the town is Place House, the seat of the Treffrys, who have been connected with Fowey for many generations.  Many of the apartments are exceedingly interesting, especially the hall, with its fine oak roof.  The present owner allows the hall and other portions to be shown to visitors.

[Illustration:  Valentine & Sons, Ltd.

FOWEY.

Showing the two little forts at the mouth of the harbour, across which in mediaeval time a chain was drawn.]

HEXHAM AND HADRIAN’S WALL

=How to get there.=—­Train from King’s Cross and St. Pancras via
  Newcastle-on-Tyne.  Great Northern Railway.
=Nearest Station.=—­Hexham. =Distance from London.=—­289 miles. =Average Time.=—­Varies between 5-1/2 to 8 hours.

                     1st 2nd 3rd
=Fares.=—­Single 40s. 10d. ... 24s. 4d. 
          Return 81s. 8d. ... 48s. 8d.

=Accommodation Obtainable.=—­“Tynedale Hydropathic Mansion,” etc. =Alternative Route.=—­Train from Euston and St. Pancras via Carlisle. 
  London and North-Western Railway.

Hexham has a beautiful position, surrounded with woods and hills on three sides, while the broad Tyne flows past the historic town.  Above the surrounding roofs the hoary Abbey Church rises, with its one low central tower and flat roofs.

The history of Hexham begins with the granting of some land to St. Wilfrid in 674, on which he built a monastery and church.  A few years later Hexham was made a See, and the “Frithstool” still remains from the time when its cathedral received the right of sanctuary.

This early cathedral was destroyed by the Danes, and the building left a battered ruin.  When monasticism rose to its height, after the Norman Conquest, a priory of Canons of St. Augustine was founded there.  Its wealth and numbers gradually increased until, at the end of the thirteenth century, an entirely new building replaced the Saxon one, and Hexham became exceedingly powerful.

Hadrian’s Wall.—­Three miles north of Hexham, at Chollerford, one may see the remains of the piers of a Roman bridge over the North Tyne, and close at hand is one of the best preserved forts of Hadrian’s Wall.  It was about 124 A.D. that Hadrian started Aulus Plautorius Nepos on the building of the line of continuous fortifications running from the mouth of the Tyne to the Solway, a distance of over seventy miles.  This was built on the chain of hills overlooking the valley which runs from Newcastle to Carlisle.  The massive and astonishing ruins to be seen to-day fill one with surprise, for they suggest to a considerable extent the Great Wall of China.  The remains of the wall proper are, as a rule, 8 feet thick, and are composed of hewn stone (the total height of the wall was probably about 18 feet).  Turrets and small forts are built into the wall at frequent intervals.  The object of the wall was undoubtedly to act as a military defence against the unconquerable tribes of the north.