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 this website. Enjoy!
Happy Christmas from all the group.
This is a heads up for those who haven’t seen the parish news letter. The National Trust along with Historic England, and South Devon AONB are carrying out surveys of the scheduled monuments from Bolt Tail to Salcombe, including investigation of the Iron age (Promontory) fort on Bolt Tail. The last appraisal over 20 years…
Hope History group is quite small, but we have gathered a lot of information over the years. As there are many second and holiday homes it is not easy to recruit members, but we have a lot of interested friends, and we are eager to share the information we have, and to ask for more….
Just a brief early post because next weekend, the Bank Holiday, the History Group is holding an exhibition in the Fishermen’s Reading Room. The theme this year is events with a 9 in the year, so do not miss a display about the Louis Sheid wreck in 1939, information on the Eddystone Lighthouse, and war…
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…
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…
In 1819 Abraham Hawkins wrote “Kingsbridge and Salcombe with the Intermediate Estuary”. It was a consideration of subjects ranging from Natural History; notes about the great and the good of the time, and a description of the coast from Bolt Head to Hope Cove. It was the first attempt at a local guide and other…