Category: Mortehoe History
Lady Chichester’s Clothing Club – Mortehoe
Thursday 8th October 1868 The annual distribution of clothing by the benevolent lady founder of this Club, took place on Wednesday week in the beautiful room built for the purpose by her ladyship. As usual, it was tastefully decorated. At the…
Read MoreThe Ministers Home at Morthoe – The Grange
Thursday 19th September 1884 It ought to be easy for a man who has stayed for a few weeks in this beautiful home, to give some account of it and its surroundings. No place could be better situated. Standing on…
Read MoreMortehoe as visited by a rambler in 1886
Monday 9th August 1886 Bristol Mercury The claims made at this season by and on behalf of the numerous watering-places on our lovely coasts are sufficiently bewildering to the heads of families, who have to make a choice of their holiday…
Read MoreI call it magic. I have myself been under the spell. I thought it was merely idiotic at first
Thursday 14th September 1882 Morte-Hoe On the whole I consider Devonshire (not to say Cornwall) undeveloped, from the watering-place point of view. Ilfracombe and Torquay are always to the fore, but take a “stick and a bundle,” and go down the…
Read MoreUnveiling of Mortehoe War Memorial – 13th May 1920
Erected in a prominent position in the Parish Churchyard, the memorial to the fallen from the parish, subscribed for by the parishioners and friends, was unveiled and dedicated on Sunday afternoon in ideal weather. There was a large assemblage present…
Read MoreEliza Yeo 1840-1917
Eliza has often been described as ‘a real character of Mortehoe’. For those of you who have visited the Mortehoe Heritage Museum you will have seen her wax work figurine at the top of the stairs and perhaps already know…
Read MoreWoolacombe & Mortehoe 1899 – A visitors review
Morte Point, with its stern beauty, and the slanting spur of rocks which is covered when the tide is full, then the suggestiveness of the name is seen, and dwellers here about will tell you of doomed ships in former days. At the best…
Read MoreRockham Bay Hotel, Mortehoe
The Rockham Bay Hotel, previously started its life as a smaller hotel, run by William and Andrea Charlesworth. In 1946 the the hotel was descried in a local newspaper article as a small friendly country by the sea side hotel,…
Read MoreElizabeth Berry – Notorious Wrecker
The North Devon coast was often named “The Sailors Grave” it was said that sailors would rather drown at sea than come intothe shore’s of Mortehoe. There are many unknown drowned sailors being buried in St Mary’s churchyard, however many…
Read MoreMortehoe Post Office
The Royal Mail can date it’s history as far back as 1516, however it would not be until 1635 that the postal service would be opened up to the public with a letter office being established in London, and a…
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