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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…

Everybody’s mental picture of Hope Cove must include the Breakwater, it is such a beautiful image,but it was not always like this. As long ago as 1823 the local fishermen…

Welcome to the history page. We have had a good response to the first blogs, and feed back received means I am able to correct some information. Owen Masters tells me…

There are four churches/chapels in the Parish. There was a fifth, the Neutral Plymouth Brethren chapel and school built in Galmpton in 1847, and functioning well into the twentieth century,…

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…