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 | | DAWLISH takes its name from the little stream that now flows through the town, recorded as Dofiisc, "fl stream," in a Saxon charter of 1044. |
 | | From about 1803 onwards the ground between the old village and the sea was being "landscaped," the stream straightened and broken by artificial waterfalls, and houses built along the N. side of the lawn. |
 | | Brunel was obliged to take his line along the sea-front (plates 6,7), but he carried his railway across the mouth of the Dawlish valley on a small granite viaduct in the Egyptian style leaving free access to the beach, and built an ornamental station which is itself a nice period-piece to-day. |
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