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Hchc2009, re your {{cn}} of this sentence in the lead: "[Risdon's Survey] remains one of the most useful sources of information about the history of the county of Devon". Good catch! I added the sentence in 2011 and must have got the idea from somewhere, but I can't find where now. It's not in any of the cited sources or Further reading, AFAICS. In fact Hoskins says in Devon (p. 556) that Westcote and Risdon "are both useful, but ... do not compare in value as portraits of the county with [Carew's Cornwall]", and he goes on to say that Lysons' Magna Britannia was the first history worthy of the name. I may have misdirected myself back then: I say we remove the sentence. —SMALLJIM00:25, 12 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
