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By Anthony Barnes,Julia Barnes,Maureen Richards

The Manor of Northam dates again to the Norman invasion and is definitely recorded within the Domesday ebook, being a part of lands owned by means of a Saxon Lord known as Bristric, and this seems to be the 1st recorded proof of what was once within the sector. there's facts of prehistoric settlements and masses proof throughout the Saxon period, whilst Vikings raided the realm. Westward Ho! has its drowned wooded area and Stone Age kitchen midden hidden underneath the sands, the place the ocean nonetheless exposes deer antlers, flints and historical pottery. A past due Victorian enterprise with its pier and its palm bushes and its grand lodges, it used to be meant as a vacation inn to problem Torquay. the encircling parish, containing approximately 2700 acres of land, can also be included.

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