Village Hall 90th Birthday & Book Launch
Come and join us for the Village Hall Birthday celebration and book launch on Saturday 4th July at 2pm at the Hope and Galmpton Recreation Hall.
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New Galmpton and South Huish Book
Our new book on the history of ‘Galmpton and South Huish Then and Now’ is with the printer and we plan to launch it at the Hope and Galmpton Recreation Hall 90th Birthday Party celebrations on 4th of July. See you there !mm
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History Fair 2025
Date for your diary!
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History of the Parish book is now available
Literally hot off the press, Hope History and Heritage group are pleased to announce that the latest revised and updated version of our history of the parish has been printed and will be on sale from 20th December in the village shop. From the end of January 2025 it will also be available online from…
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Season’s Greetings
We are pleased to announce that our new History of the Parish book is having the first print run next week. This revised version has a lot more information and many new photographs. It will be available in the village shop and online in the New Year. If you have time before 19th December do…
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HMS Ramillies
Wrecked off Bolt Tail 15th February 1760 In late 2023, the History Group was able to buy this wonderful model of HMS Ramillies which was built by Alan Quester from Oswestry, who dived on the wreck in 1973. During lockdown, Alan researched and then built his model, and gave us information about his dive, and some…
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A very photogenic part of the world
The arrival of the actor Jim Broadbent in Kingsbridge last autumn to shoot some scenes for a film “The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry” prompted some old memories. Who remembers the 1950’s TV series Quatermass (which terrified me) and later the first series of “Maigret” in the early sixties both of which starred Rupert Davies? The…
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What’s in a name?
The origins of the names of the three villages in the parish are all ancient. Hope comes from the old Norse “Hop” meaning a small bay or inlet. South Huish is Old English for “southern household” and the name Galmpton has had many variations over the centuries, but the root of all the variations concerns rent-paying…
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Hotels: going, going, don’t let them all be gone…
The 1841 census shows that only The Hope and Anchor, and the Bird in Hand (now the Cove) offered accommodation, but before the end of the 19th century, and before the Earl Devon of was forced to sell his property here, he encouraged local people to take in paying guests. The history group has copies of wonderful comments…