Torridge District: Westward Ho!
Developed around its long Atlantic beach, Westward Ho! grew into a Victorian seaside resort on Bideford Bay. The settlement took its unusual name from Charles Kingsley’s 1855 novel Westward Ho!, a story that helped inspire its nineteenth-century creation. A broad sandy shore meets the Atlantic, while the Pebble Ridge forms a distinctive barrier between the beach and the low-lying Northam Burrows. This coastal area lies within the North Devon Biosphere Reserve and includes dunes, grassland and saltmarsh. Westward Ho! is also home to the Royal North Devon Golf Club, founded in 1864 and regarded as England’s oldest golf course. The result is a resort with an unusually open shoreline.
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Torridge is best known within England for the River Torridge, which gives this North Devon district its name. The river runs through a predominantly rural area of fields, wooded valleys and small settlements before meeting the sea at Bideford. Its course is closely associated with Henry Williamson’s 1927 classic Tarka the Otter, a story rooted in the rivers and countryside of North Devon. The district also encompasses part of the North Devon coast, where the estuary landscape contrasts with the inland farmland. Find related webcams in the surrounding area to build a fuller picture of Torridge and North Devon.
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