Word: brixham
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Dates: during 1944-1944
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Along Devonshire's cliff-hung coast, between Plymouth and Brixham, 3,000 Britons, ousted from their seaside homes by the invasion, began to move back to villages and farms...
...West Country. Westward still, where Brixham's whitewashed houses climb the red sandstone cliffs above Tor Bay, patient Devon fishermen mend their nets and watch for signs that offshore fishing is again allowed. Napoleon paused at Brixham on his way to St. Helena. Brixham fishermen were among the last to abandon sail for steam, but claim to have been the first to find the teeming Dogger Bank in the Bay of Biscay...