by Tom Fort
view west from, ref1
Betjeman, Sir John, poet:
Hayling Island, ref1
Weymouth, ref1
Sidmouth, ref1, ref2
playing golf at Mullion, ref1
Bexhill, Sussex:
approach, ref1
De La Warr Pavilion, ref1
‘that terrible town’, ref1
compared with Hastings, ref1
mixed bathing, ref1
Bexhill Observer, newspaper, ref1
Big Sleep, hotel in Eastbourne part-owned by John Malkovich, ref1
Bigbury-on-Sea, Devon:
life guards, ref1
beach, ref1
Birch, Eugenius, designer of piers: Hastings Pier, ref1
West Pier, Brighton, ref1
Birch, John ‘Lamorna’, painter, ref1
Bird, Sheila, Falmouth historian of the paranormal, ref1
Birds of Devon, book by William D’Urban and the Reverend Murray Mathew:
slaughter of coots at Slapton Ley, ref1
beneficial effects, ref1
Bishopstone tide mills, Sussex: installed, ref1
thriving village, ref1
classic edgeland, ref1
Black Head, Cornwall, ref1
Blackie, Professor John, Greek scholar and Scottish nationalist, ref1
Blackpool Sands, Devon, ref1
Blackshirts, Oswald Mosley’s: camp at Selsey, ref1
happy memories, ref1
Bland, Hubert, husband of E. Nesbitt, ref1
Blight, J. T., author of A Week at the Land’s End, ref1
Blithe Spirit, play by Noel Coward, ref1
Board, Lillian, athlete, at the 1968 Olympics, ref1
Bodrugan, Sir Henry:
of Bodrugan Barton, ref1
Bodrugan’s Leap, ref1
Bognor Regis, Sussex:
closeness to Middleton, ref1
Pier ref1
Civic Society gnashes teeth, ref1
George V, ref1
did the King say ‘Bugger Bognor’? ref1
James Joyce, ref1
escaped lion, ref1
Butlins, ref1
Bolberry Down, Devon, ref1
Bolt Head, Devon:
facing Prawle Point, ref1
strenuous climb, ref1
Spanish Armada, ref1
Cecilie Herzogin wrecked, ref1
Bonaparte, Napoleon:
prepares to invade England, ref1
refers to Channel as ‘mere ditch’, ref1
abandons invasion plan, ref1
Bonaparte, Prince Louis Lucien, philologist, provides memorial to Dolly Pentreath, ref1
Bond, family, owners of Tyneham in Dorset, ref1
Bond, James, fictional spy:
Moonraker, ref1
ponders Gala Brand’s mole, ref1
Bond, Thomas, historian of Looe:
edible rats, ref1
Parson Dodge, ref1
Book of the Axe, The, book by George Pulman, ref1
Borlase, Sir William, historian of Cornwall, ref1, ref2
Boskenna, house near Lamorna, Cornwall:
owned by Paynter family, ref1
home of Mary Wesley, ref1
sold, ref1
Bournemouth:
Pier, ref1
in January, ref1
genteel charms, ref1
International Conference Centre, ref1, ref2
rich literary associations, ref1
Tolstoy, ref1
Count Vladimir Tcherkov, ref1
Rupert Croft-Cooke, ref1
Malcolm Muggeridge, ref1
Sir Patrick Abercrombie, ref1
demolition Winter Gardens, ref1
best seen in summer, ref1
Bournemouth, poem by Verlaine, ref1
Bournemouth Echo, newspaper:
Bill Bryson, ref1
Russians, ref1
Bournemouth Song Book, poems by Cumberland Clark, ref1
Boyhood of Raleigh, painting by Millais, ref1
Brand, Gala, character in Ian Fleming’s Moonraker:
mole, ref1
breasts, ref1
Branscombe, Devon:
too perfect, ref1
wreck of SS Napoli, ref1
battered and dazed, ref1
Breeze on Beachy Head, essay by Richard Jefferies, ref1
Bridgman, George, architect of Paignton, ref1
Brighton:
Marina, ref1
Palace Pier, ref1, ref2, ref3
Church of St Nicholas, ref1
Sake Deen Mahomet, ref1
adopted by Prince Regent, ref1
railway line to London, ref1
West Pier, ref1
Graham Greene, ref1
Frank Gehry, ref1
Dr Anthony Seldon, ref1
Black Rock Pool, ref1
i360, ref1
diverse desires, ref1
nudist beach, ref1
Brighton and Hove Council:
Saltdean Lido, ref1
appetite for big spending, ref1
Brighton Rock, novel and film, ref1
British Medical Journal, paper on Beachy Head suicides, ref1
Brixham, Devon:
harbour, ref1
fishing industry, ref1
William of Orange, ref1
tall tales, ref1
All Saints Church and Henry Lyte, ref1
Festival of the Sea ref1
Broadwater Cemetery, Worthing, Sussex, ref1
Brooke, Rupert, poet, stayed in Bournemouth, ref1
Brooks-Ward, Raymond, TV showjumping commentator, ref1
Brunel, Isambard Kingdom:
Dawlish ref1
hubris, ref1
Budleigh Salterton, Devon:
stones from, ref1
Otter estuary, ref1
curiousness of, ref1
ukelele night, ref1
croquet, ref1
Buildings of England: Sussex, book by Nikolaus Pevsner and Iain Nairn, ref1
Burgh Island, Devon:
hotel, ref1
pilchards, ref1
Burke, Mrs, awful death of, ref1
Burney, Fanny, diarist:
with George III in Weymouth, ref1
beauties of Teignmouth, ref1
Burt, George, builder and benefactor of Swanage:
builds mansion, ref1
clock-less clock tower, ref1
Town Hall, ref1
Durlston Castle, ref1
Great Globe, ref1
Burton Bradstock, Dorset, ref1
Butlin, Sir Billy, holiday camp owner:
escaped lion stunt, ref1
opens Bognor camp, ref1
Faustian pact, ref1
Cadgwith, Cornwall:
Monty Halls, ref1
working fishing village, ref1
Harriet Cohen, ref1
Caerhays Castle:
wild fancies of, ref1
no match for Cornish weather, ref1
Caesar, Julius:
crosses Channel, ref1
and Hayling Island, ref1
Calais, French port:
Walde lighthouse, ref1
Captain Webb’s swim, ref1
Camber, Kent:
Sands, ref1
kite-surfing, ref1
railway carriages, ref1
Camilla’s Bookshop, Eastbourne, ref1
Cannadine, David, historian, on 7th Duke of Devonshire, ref1
Carleon Cove, Cornwall, and Poltesco serpentine factory, ref1
Carlyon Bay, St Austell, Cornwall:
resembles Sarajevo, ref1
planning scandal, ref1
Carter, John, Charles and Harry, Cornish brothers and smugglers, ref1
Cary, Henry Francis, translator of Dante, ref1
Catt, William, Sussex worthy:
takes over Bishopstone Tidal Mill, ref1
pride, ref1
advises King Louis Philippe of France, ref1
Cattell, Raymond, ps
ychologist and author of Under Sail Through Red Devon, ref1
Caunter, Brigadier J. A. L., founder of Shark Angling Club of Great Britain, ref1
Causley, Charles, Cornish poet, on Sir Henry Bodrugan, ref1
Cawsand, Cornwall, ref1, ref2
Chalybeate springs, therapeutic effects of, ref1
Channel Tunnel:
and Samphire Hoe, ref1
impact on Folkestone, ref1
Chanteloupe, brig wrecked at Thurlestone, ref1
Charles I:
danger to the nation, ref1
receives petition from Algiers, ref1
Charles II, arrives at Dover from exile, ref1
Charlestown, Cornwall:
The Onedin Line, ref1
Charles Rashleigh, ref1
harbour built, ref1
seen on films and television, ref1
Chesil Beach:
wreckers, ref1
Ian McEwan, ref1
tombolo, ref1
at dusk, ref1
Chichester Harbour, ref1, ref2
Chilvers, Peter, inventor of windsurfing, ref1
Christchurch Bay, ref1, ref2, ref3
Christchurch Harbour, ref1, ref2, ref3
Chronicles, Raphael Hollinshed’s, ref1
Church Cove, Poldhu, Cornwall, and Church of St Winwaloe, ref1
Churchill, Sir Winston, British Prime Minister:
as Warden of the Cinque Ports, ref1
false allegations against, ref1
mother marries George Cornwallis-West, ref1
Cinque Ports:
original purpose, ref1
decline, ref1
alleged right of droit de seigneur, ref1
Clark, Cumberland:
Bournemouth poet, ref1
big hit, ref1
flow of verse halted, ref1
Clarke, Edward, citizen of Hastings:
passionate Francophilia, ref1
confetti battle with French, ref1
definition of chivalry, ref1
Clavell, Sir William, 17th century entrepreneur, tries to turn Kimmeridge into industrial centre, ref1
Coakes, Marion, Olympic showjumper, ref1
Coasting, book by Jonathan Raban, ref1
Cobbett, William, radical writer, scorns Martello Towers, ref1
Cochrane, Hon. Basil, Indian nabob and pioneer of therapeutic shampooing, ref1
Cogden Beach, Dorset:
Chesil Beach, ref1
mermaid, ref1
caravan park, ref1
Cohen, Harriet, pianist:
lover of Arnold Bax, ref1
cottage at Cadgwith, ref1
Collins, Wilkie, novelist:
pilchard fishing, ref1
rat hunt on Looe Island, ref1
lure of Land’s End, ref1
Colquhoun, Ithell, painter of Cornwall, ref1
Concrete, use of as seaside building material, ref1
Connolly, Cyril, writer, vilifies St Cyprian’s preparatory school, ref1
Cooper, Lady Diana, complains about ‘villadom’, ref1
Coot shoot at Slapton Ley, ref1
Cornish, Vaughan, expert on wave forms, ref1
Cornish Childhood, A, memoir by A. L. Rowse, ref1
Cornish language:
according to Charles Harper, ref1
last sermon in, ref1
and Dolly Pentreath, ref1
no longer extinct, ref1
dutifully promoted, ref1
Cornwall: different from Devon, ref1
tourism, ref1
character of people, ref1
overrun by tourists, ref1
land of legend and romance, ref1
Cornwallis-West, George, man-about-town and fisherman:
unloved by mother, ref1
commits suicide, ref1
catches sea trout off Keyhaven, ref1
Cornwallis-West, William, father of George, ref1
Corunna, Siege of, death of Sir John Moore at, ref1
Cottage Hotel, Hope Cove:
drink at ref1
respectability of, ref1
Couch, Jonathan, doctor of Polperro and ichthyologist:
early life, ref1
treats smallpox outbreak, ref1
great labour of love, ref1
tribute from ‘Q’, ref1
Coverack, Cornwall:
wreck of the John, ref1
picture-book look, ref1
Coward, Noel, playwright:
rents house at St Margaret’s Bay, Kent, ref1
complains about hoi polloi, ref1
satirises Budleigh Salterton, ref1
Craigwell House, near Bognor:
affecting scene as George V arrives to convalesce, ref1
knocked down for development, ref1
Craik, Mrs Dinah, writer:
Poltesco serpentine works, ref1
Mary Mundy, ref1
Critchard, William, his cottage near Rousdon destroyed by landslip, ref1
Croft-Cooke, Rupert, writer:
twenty-seven volume autobiography, ref1
living in Bournemouth, ref1
delighted by grey squirrels, ref1
death, ref1
Darby, Reverend Jonathan:
Rector of East Dean, Sussex, ref1
absurd story about, ref1
Darby’s Hole, Sussex, ref1
Davidson, John, poet and playwright, commits suicide in Penzance, ref1
Davies, Robin, owner of Charlestown Harbour, ref1
Dawlish, Devon:
bathing, ref1
black swans, ref1
impact of railway, ref1
sea wall, ref1
Dawlish Warren, Devon:
and River Exe, ref1
shacks and chalets, ref1
Day, Harry, Labour MP, expresses concern about mixed bathing, ref1
D-Day:
invasion, ref1
preparations for, ref1
De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill:
glory of, ref1
indifference to, ref1
Denge Beach and Marsh, ref1
De Savary, Peter, entrepreneur, buys Land’s End, ref1
Devonshire, 7th Duke of:
visits to Eastbourne, ref1
fawning on, ref1
‘ill-mannered attack’ on, ref1
Devonshire, 11th Duke of, celebrates pleasures of Eastbourne, ref1
Dickens, Charles, novelist:
stays in Dover, ref1
finds Dover ‘bandy’, ref1
Dingle, Joseph, crooked manager of Charlestown Harbour, ref1
Dixon, Kevin, historian of Torquay, ref1, ref2
Doctor Syn:
fictional clergyman, ref1
celebrated in Dymchurch, ref1
Doctor Syn: A Tale of the Romney Marsh, adventure story by Russell Thorndyke, ref1
Dodge, Reverend Richard, Vicar of Talland in Cornwall and expert in dark arts, ref1
Dodman Point, Cornwall:
disasters off, ref1
granite cross, ref1
atmosphere, ref1
Dover, Kent:
Straits, ref1, ref2
Castle, ref1, ref2, ref3
Port, ref1
Dickens, ref1
bombed and shelled, ref1
architectural horrors, ref1
Captain Webb, ref1
Western Heights, ref1
collecting samphire, ref1
as Cinque Port, ref1
Double Dykes, Iron Age fortification in Dorset, ref1
Downderry, Cornwall:
nothing much to look at, ref1
house names, ref1
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan, storyteller:
plays golf at Mullion, ref1
sets The Adventure of the Devil’s Foot nearby, ref1
Dreadnought HMS, Britain’s first nuclear submarine, ref1
Druitt, Jabez, owner of Poltesco serpentine works, ref1
Dryad, Liverpool sail ship wrecked off Start Poin
t, ref1, ref2
Duchêne, Henry and Achille, father-and-son French garden designers employed at Oldway Mansion, Paignton, ref1
Du Maurier, Daphne, novelist, lives at Menabilly, Cornwall, ref1
Duncan, Isadora, dancer, stays at Oldway Mansion, Paignton, ref1
Dungeness, Kent:
power stations, ref1, ref2
oddness, ref1
lighthouses, ref1
fishing, ref1
randomness, ref1
road to Lydd, ref1
Durlston Castle, Dorset, ref1
Durlston Head, ref1
Dymchurch, Kent:
Redoubt, ref1
sea wall, ref1
E. Nesbitt, ref1
Doctor Syn, ref1
Paul Nash, ref1
Earl of Abergavenny, East Indiaman, wrecked on the Shambles, ref1
Earwicker, Humphrey Chimpden, hero of Joyce’s Finnegan’s Wake, ref1
East Beach Café, Littlehampton, ref1
East Dean, Sussex:
Rev. Jonathan Darby, ref1
trapping wheatears, ref1
East Wittering, Sussex, not as classy as West Wittering, ref1
Eastbourne, Sussex:
in February, ref1
changing times, ref1
deplorable hostility to cycling, ref1
hotels, ref1
fishing fleet, ref1
Pier, ref1
7th Duke of Devonshire, ref1
St Cyprian’s, boys’ prep school, ref1
pleasures of, ref1
Edward VII, appendix operated on by Sir Frederick Treves, ref1
Edwardians Go Fishing, book by George Cornwallis-West, ref1
Eisenhower, Dwight, US general:
Exercise Tiger, ref1
accused of cover-up, ref1
Eliot, T. S., poet, takes James Joyce for drive from Bognor, ref1
Elizabeth, Princess (later Elizabeth II), makes sandcastle, ref1
Ellis, Peter Beresford, scholar, on Cornish language, ref1
Ely, Alderman Edward, on why Torquay should not sell tripe, ref1
Encombe, Vale of, Dorset, ref1
Enemies of Promise, book by Cyril Connolly, ref1
English Channel, passim
Entente Cordiale, treaty with France, ref1
Erme, river, Devon, ref1
Etches, Steve, Dorset fossil-hunter, ref1
Evelyn, John, diarist, on pickling samphire, ref1
Exe, river: estuary, ref1; Swan of the Exe, ref1
Exercise Tiger, Slapton Sands, ref1
Exmouth, Devon:
forlorn air, ref1
seafront, ref1
Wayland Wordsmith, ref1
Thomas Mills, ref1
Captain George Peacock, ref1
and Dawlish Warren, ref1
Falmouth, Cornwall:
deep-water anchorage, ref1
Herzogin Cecilie, ref1
lifeboat, ref1
guarding, ref1
Far Away and Long Ago, autobiography by W. H. Hudson, ref1
Felpham, Sussex:
approach to Bognor, ref1
fish-and-chip horror, ref1
Finn, family:
resident on Great Mewstone, ref1
Looe Island, ref1
Finnegan’s Wake, novel by James Joyce, ref1, ref2