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origin, ref1
in Hastings, ref1
still going, ref1
Spade House, Sandgate, home of H. G. Wells, ref1, ref2
Stamfordham, Lord, George V’s secretary, ref1
Start Bay, Devon:
empty sea, ref1
Exercise Tiger, ref1
Start Point, Devon, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Steinkraus, Bill, US showjumper, ref1
Stevenson, Robert Louis, novelist, in Bournemouth, ref1
Strete, Devon, struck by stray US shell, ref1
Stroller, pony:
wins silver at 1968 Olympics, ref1
buried at Barton golf course, ref1
Such, Such Were The Joys, George Orwell’s account of schooldays at St Cyprian’s, ref1
Suevic SS, wrecked off Lizard Point, ref1
Swanage, Dorset:
eccentricity, ref1
charm, ref1
Mowlem Institute, ref1
clock-less Clock Tower, ref1
strictures of Paul Nash, ref1
and Purbeck stone, ref1
Talland, Cornwall:
church, ref1
Reverend Richard Dodge, ref1
bogus curate, ref1
Tcherkov, Count Vladimir, disciple of Tolstoy:
leader of Russian community in Tuckton, ref1
return to Russia, ref1
control over Tolstoy’s legacy, ref1
President of Tuckton FC, ref1
Tcherkov, Vladimir, left-back for Tuckton FC, ref1
Teign, river, Devon, ref1
Teignmouth, Devon:
escapes blight of Brunel, ref1
lido, ref1
Grand Pier, ref1
admired by Fanny Burney, ref1
Keats, ref1
Sir Edward Pellew, ref1
Elias Parish-Alvars, ref1
Theroux, Paul, novelist and travel writer, sneers at beach huts, ref1
Thorndyke, Russell, actor and storyteller:
Dymchurch, ref1
and Doctor Syn, ref1
Thurlestone, Devon:
cut above Hope, ref1
no pub, ref1
shameful episode, ref1
Thwaite, Ann, biographer of the Gosses, father and son, ref1
Tilden, Philip, architect:
commissioned to design Hengistbury Castle, ref1
remodels Porth-en-Alls, ref1
Tolkien, J. R. R., writer, holidays in Bournemouth, ref1
Tolstoy, Leo, and Bournemouth, ref1
Torbay, Devon:
urban spread, ref1
coast, ref1
Council, ref1
Torcross, Devon:
Exercise Tiger, ref1
coots, ref1
lone fisherman, ref1
Torquay, Devon:
high opinion of self, ref1
lure of English Riviera, ref1
loved by backbone of nation, ref1
compared with Cannes, ref1
Pavilion, ref1
Riviera Centre, ref1
Fawlty Towers, ref1
pleasure of walking, ref1
Torre Abbey, Torquay, ref1, ref2
Tout, family of Hallsands, Devon, ref1
Towan Beach, Cornwall:
described by Winston Graham, ref1
saved by National Trust, ref1
Towan type, ref1
Town and Country Planning Act 1947, ref1
Townshend, Charlotte, richest woman in Dorset, ref1
Travis, Dr John, historian of bathing, ref1
Treneer, Anne, Cornish schoolteacher and writer, ref1
Trevanion, Squire John, (Bettesworth-Trevanion), owner of Caerhays Castle, Cornwall:
inherits, ref1
builds castle, ref1
ruined, ref1
Trevenwith Farm, Cornwall, ref1
Treves, Sir Frederick, surgeon and lover of Dorset:
Elephant Man, ref1
treats Edward VII, ref1
Highways and Byways in Dorset, ref1
mourns old Swanage, ref1
St Aldhelm’s Head, ref1
Encombe, ref1
Worbarrow Bay, ref1
Lulworth Cove, ref1
statue of George III, ref1
Portland Bill, ref1
Cogden mermaid, ref1
Burton Bradstock, ref1
Tucker, William Sansome, acoustic scientist, ref1
Tuckton, suburb of Bournemouth:
Dorothy L. Sayers, ref1
Count Tcherkov, ref1
Free Age Press, ref1
football club, ref1
Tyneham, Dorset:
sad story, ref1
houses fall into ruin, ref1
incredible tranquillity, ref1
Under Sail Through Red Devon, book by Raymond Cattell, ref1
Unsentimental Journey Through Cornwall, book by Mrs Dinah Craik, ref1, ref2
Upcott Farm, Dorset, ref1
Vade Mecum of Fly-Fishing for Trout, The, book by George Pulman, ref1
Varwell, Peter, Brixham man, ref1
Verlaine, Paul, French symbolist poet:
teacher in Bournemouth, ref1
writes Bournemouth, ref1
Veryan, Cornwall Long Grave, ref1
Victoria, Queen:
dislike of Brighton, ref1
visits Mount’s Bay, ref1
Villeneuve, Admiral Pierre-Charles:
ordered to make Channel safe for invasion, ref1
in Cádiz, ref1
Volk, Magnus, promoter of Seashore Electric Railway, ref1
Voysey, Charles, architect, designed Spade House, Sandgate, ref1
Walde lighthouse, near Calais, marks northern limit of Channel, ref1
Walton, Barclay Harper, stockbroker, sailor and friend of Kipling, ref1
Walton, Professor John, historian of the seaside, ref1
Ward, Colin, writer and anarchist, ref1, ref2
Watson-Watt, Robert, pioneer of radar, ref1
Webb, Matthew, endurance swimmer:
crosses Channel, ref1
victim of celebrity culture, ref1
drowns below Niagara Falls, ref1
Week at the Land’s End, A, book by John Thomas Blight, ref1
Wellington, Duke of, ref1, ref2, ref3
Wells, H. G., novelist:
moves to Sandgate, ref1
sex drive, ref1
cycling, ref1
leaves Sandgate, ref1
on the household of E. Nesbitt, ref1
Wembury Bay, Devon:
geology, ref1
holiday camp, ref1
smart houses, ref1
Wesley, Mary, novelist, living at Boskenna, Cornwall, ref1
West, Dr Ian, geologist:
exceptional website, ref1
Kimmeridge, ref1
Chesil Beach, ref1
farewell, ref1
West Bay, Dorset:
Chesil Beach, ref1
cliffs, ref1
Reginald Perrin, ref1
Broadchurch, ref1
West Pier, Brighton:
opened, ref1
decline, ref1
derelict, ref1
West Wittering, Sussex:
in retreat, ref1
classier than East Wittering, ref1
Weston donkey sanctuary, Devon, ref1
Weymouth, Dorset:
Bay, ref1
looking a picture, ref1
Olympics, ref1
numerous attractions of, ref1
George III, ref1
princesses bathe, ref1
1824 storm, ref1
Wheatears, small birds:
habits, ref1
slaughter, ref1
protected, ref1
White Cliffs, Noel Coward’s house at St Margaret’s Bay, ref1
White Nothe (or White Nose), Dorset:
landslide, ref1
Llewellyn Powys, ref1
Whitsand Bay, Cornwall, ref1, ref2
&n
bsp; Wilde, Oscar, playwright:
Worthing, ref1
Bournemouth, ref1
Wilkes, Lewis Vaughan and Cicely, owners of St Cyprian’s, Eastbourne, ref1
William III (William of Orange):
sails into Brixham, ref1, ref2
statue, ref1
greetings to England, ref1
Williams, Dorian, television showjumping commentator, ref1
Willimott, Reverend William, Rector of St Michael’s Caerhays, ref1
Winchelsea, Sussex, ref1, ref2
Winspit, Dorset, ref1
Wolfe, Thomas, author of ode to Sir John Moore, ref1
Wood, Florence Carter, art student:
married to Alfred Munnings, ref1
suicide at Lamorna, ref1
Woolf, Virginia, novelist and diarist, abusive about Peacehaven, ref1, ref2
Worbarrow Bay, Dorset, ref1
Worth Matravers, Dorset, ref1
Worthing, Sussex:
Pier, ref1
literary associations, ref1
Broadwater Cemetery, ref1
bathing, ref1, ref2
Wyke Regis, Dorset, ref1
Yealm, river, ref1, ref2, ref3
Year at the Shore, A, book by Philip Henry Gosse, ref1
York, Duke of, Frederick, ref1
Young, Gerard, historian of Bognor, ref1, ref2