Category: Exmouth History


  • Daniel Warren

    Daniel Warren of Minehead, originator of the submarine telegraph, is buried in Littleham Churchyard. In July 1858 a petition to…


  • Bystock Pools

    Bystock Pools are a well kept local secret, a staggeringly beautiful area a few miles North East of Exmouth, packed…


  • Exmouth Zoo

    Exmouth Zoo was originally opened as a branch of Paignton Zoological and Botonical Gardens in 1957, being subsequently purchased by…


  • New Battery

    The New Battery, located close to the old Lifeboat Station, was completed in 1862. It contained a keeper’s cottage, an…


  • Brickworks

    Exmouth’s first brickworks dating from the early 1700’s were probably based around lime kilns in the area of Stoney Lane,…