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SEATON

Volume 19 · 67 words · 1815 Edition

a small fishing town on the south coast of Devon, between Lyme and Sidmouth. Riffon says "our learned antiquarians would have it to be that Maridunum whereof Antoine spake, placed between Dunnovaria and Isea;" for Maridunum in British is the same with Seaton in English, "a town upon a hill by the sea-fide." This place is memorable for the Danish princes landing there in the year 937.