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Brixham history
The first evidence of a town comes from the Saxon times. It is possible that Saxon settlement originated by sea from Hampshire in the 6th century. Brixham was called Briseham in the Domesday Book in 1334. The main church is St. Mary’s, about a mile from the sea, and is the third to have been on the site.
Maritime
In the Middle Ages, Brixham was the largest fishing port in the south west of England. Known as the ‘Mother of Deep-Sea Fisheries’, its boats helped to establish the fishing industries of Hull, Grimsby and Lowestoft. In the 1890s, there were about 300 trawling vessels in Bixham, most individually owned. The modern boats are diesel-driven, but a few of the famous old sailing trawlers have been preserved.
Military
In 1588, Sir Francis Drake attacked the Spanish Armada after he had finished his game of bowls on Plymouth Hoe. Since the days of Henry VIII, Brixham has played a part in the defence of the nation. The headland known as Berry Head is now a national nature reserve, but it is also a military site where guns were once positioned to defend the naval ships that were re-victualling.
Industrial
Limestone was once quarried and used to build the breakwater and was sent to Dagenham to make steel for Ford cars. Ochre was invented in Brixham in about 1845, and was the first substance in the world that would stop cast iron from rusting. The ochre gave the old fishing boats their “Red Sails in the Sunset”
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