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All at sea! Story telling - Our Maritime Heritage

Sat 13 Sep 25
Sat 13 Sep:1400-1600; Sun 14 Sep:1400-1600; Free Entry. Vicarage Road, East Budleigh, Budleigh Salterton EX9 7EF Heritage Open Day: All at sea - what maritime stories! Hear how Sir Walter Raleigh as a boy watched the trading ships arrive in bustling Budleigh Haven, learn how Vice Admiral Preedy aboard the Agamemnon laid the first transatlantic cable, and the nature reserve today. Our Maritime Heritage event takes place in Salem Chapel, a dissenters chapel built in 1719. Focussing on local maritime activities, the exhibition shows how the Budleigh Haven evolved from the bustling port of Sir Walter Raleigh’s times to the Otter Estuary Nature Reserve today. Trading ships brought in silks and spices from over the seas. Every day supplies came up river from down the coast. Smugglers landed their booty in the dead of night and stored it safely out of sight in the chapel roof... READ MORE>

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