Brixham Devon CAM

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Yachts at Brixham Place: Brixham Category: Transportation Please select a size: 800x600 - 1024x768 About: Brixham has its own very popular Yacht Club where member can enjoy a clubroom and the Jubilee Room Restaurant which provides panoramic views of Brixham harbour and beyond to the beautiful waters and coastlines of Torbay and Lyme Bay Photograph Added: 21st August 2009

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Busy Harbour Place: Brixham Category: Ports and Harbours Please select a size: 800x600 - 1024x768 About: Brixham is still very much a busy fishing harbour but there is also a good choice of boat trip companies at Brixham and there are several ferry companies operating boat trips out to Dartmouth and Totnes. Photograph Added: 5th July 2009

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Beside the Golden Hind Place: Brixham Category: Ports and Harbours Please select a size: 800x600 - 1024x768 About: The Golden Hind Ship, is well remembered as the ship captured by Frances Drake and on which he was knighted by Elizabeth I on 4th April 1581. It was reconstructed and now sits in Brixham Harbour Photograph Added: 5th July 2009

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Places to Eat Place: Brixham Category: Harbours And Ports Please select a size: 800x600 - 1024x768 About: A walk along by the harbour at Brixham is a very pleasant experience and there are any number of attractive places to stop for a meal. Photograph Added: 5th July 2009

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Distant View of the Lighthouse Place: Brixham Category: Beaches Please select a size: 800x600 - 1024x768 About: Fishcombe Cove is a little off the beaten track and it is quite a steep road from the nearby car park. Compared to the more accessible Brixham beaches this little cove is usually quiet but well worth a visit as the views are stunning. Photograph Added: 5th July 2009

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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.