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Shoalstone Pool in the Evening Place: Brixham Category: Coastal Please select a size: 640x480 - 800x600 - 1024x768 About: The effects in the sky looking towards Brixahm from Shoalstone Pool kept changing as we watched and the difference in the colour of the water in the pool contrasted with the sea makes this photograph very unusual Photograph Added: 18th December 2008

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Brixham Marina Reflected Place: Brixham Category: Ports and Harbours Please select a size: 640x480 - 800x600 - 1024x768 About: The reflection of the Welcome to Brixham Marina sign is a perfect mirror image and adds interest to this unusual photograph. Photograph Added: 18th December 2008

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Angling at Brixham Place: Brixham Category: Ports and Harbours Please select a size: 640x480 - 800x600 - 1024x768 About: There were lots of anglers at Brixham spread out along the length of the pier and right at the end by the lighthouse. We have watched many fishermen in our time and seen very little caught from the shore but on this particular night once we had finis...... Photograph Added: 25th November 2008

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More Steps to Fishcombe Beach Place: Brixham Category: Beaches Please select a size: 640x480 - 800x600 - 1024x768 About: On one side of Fishcombe beach the path leads to Brixham Battery and Battery Gardens which is an open space on the sea shore at Brixham. There are 14 acres and the battery was first used in 1586 during the war between England and Spain. It was activ...... Photograph Added: 25th November 2008

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Steps to the Beach Place: Brixham Category: Beaches Please select a size: 640x480 - 800x600 - 1024x768 About: The sign that we followed to get to this beach said Fishcombe Cove, Cafe, Deckchairs and toilets but we were out of season and the place looked a little unloved. Photograph Added: 25th November 2008

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About Brixham Devon.

Brixham is located five miles south of Torquay on the A3022, it forms the third part of Torbay along with Torquay and Paignton. Like its neighbour Torquay, Brixham enjoys a wonderfully mild climate and is very popular with families, the boating set, tour boats and also attracts artists from all over the world.
As well as being a tourist destination Brixham is still an active fishing port with a fish auction house on the quayside. The fish market is open to the public on two special days in the summer, when the finer points of catching and cooking fish are explained. During the 18th century Brixham was the most profitable fishing port in Britain earning the name of The Mother of Deep-Sea Fisheries.
The rocks around Brixham have played an important part in its history. Limestone was once quarried extensively and it was used to build the breakwater. It's other uses were in the building of houses and roads, and it was sent to Dagenham to make steel for Ford cars. Burnt in limekilns to reduce it to a powder, limestone was spread on the land in parts of Devon to act as an agricultural fertiliser.
Another use of the rocks around Brixham was the production ochre which gave the old fishing boats their red sails. The purpose of this dye was to protect the canvas from seawater, not to look picturesque. It was boiled in great caldrons along with tar, tallow and oak bark, the hot mixture was painted on to the sails and then hung up to dry. The ochre was also used to make a very special paint to stop cast iron from rusting.
It was at Brixham that the Prince of Orange landed in 1688 to make his claim to the throne and in 1815 Napoleon Bonaparte was aboard the Bellerophon in the bay looking towards Brixham, his only close look at England, as he was being transported to his exile on St. Helena. During the 19th Century the vicar of Brixham's All Saints Church a certain Henry Francis Lyte composed one of Britains best loved hymns - Abide With Me.
Popular with tourists is the coffin house at King Street Brixham, which is indeed coffin-shaped. A popular tale is told of a father who informed a prospective son in law that he would see his daughter in a coffin before he allowed her to marry him, whereupon the man bought the coffin house. He then reported to his soon to be father in law that his wishes had been met and allegedly all lived happily ever after.