Devonport. Among
other industries may be noted the lace-works at Tiverton; the
manufacture of pillow-lace for which Honiton and its neighbourhood has
long been famous; and the potteries and terra-cotta works of Bovey
Tracey and Watcombe. Woollen goods and serges are made at Buckfastleigh
and Ashburton, and boots and shoes at Crediton. Convict labour is
employed in the direction of agriculture, quarrying, &c., in the great
prison of Dartmoor.

_Communications._--The main line of the Great Western railway, entering
the county in the east from Taunton, runs to Exeter, skirts the coast as
far as Teignmouth, and continues a short distance inland by Newton Abbot
to Plymouth, after which it crosses the estuary of the Tamar by a great
bridge to Saltash in Cornwall. Branches serve Torquay and other seaside
resorts of the south coast; and among other branches are those from
Taunton to Barnstaple and from Plymouth northward to Tavistock and
Launceston. The main line of the London & South-Western railway between
Exeter and Plymouth skirts the north and west of Dartmoor by Okehampton
and Tavistock. A branch from Yeoford serves Barnstaple, Ilfracombe,
Bideford and Torrington, while the Lynton & Barnstaple and the Bideford,
Westward Ho & Appledore lines serve the districts indicated by their
names. The branch line to Princetown from the Plymouth-Tavistock line of
the Great Western company in part follows the line of a very early
railway--that constructed to connect Plymouth with the Dartmoor prison
in 1819-1825, which was worked with horse cars. The only waterways of
any importance are the Tamar, which is navigable up to Gunnislake (3 m.
S.W. of Tavistock), and the Exeter ship canal, noteworthy as one of the
oldest in England, for it was originally cut in the reign of Elizabeth.

_Population and Administration._--The area of the ancient county is
1,667,154 acres, with a population in 1891 of 631,808, and 1901 of
661,314. The area of the administrative county is 1,671,168 acres. The
county contains 33 hundreds. The municipal boroughs are Barnstaple (pop.
14,137), Bideford (8754), Dartmouth (6579), Devonport, a county borough
(70,437), Exeter, a city and county borough (47,185), Torrington,
officially Great Torrington (3241), Honiton (3271), Okehampton (2569),
Plymouth, a county borough (107,636), South Molton (2848), Tiverton
(10,382), Torquay (33,625), Totnes (4035). The other urban districts are
Ashburton (2628), Bampton (1657), Bri