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2 unusual facts about Ilfracombe


Charles Henry Darling

Married, thirdly, at Ilfracombe, North Devon on 10 December 1851 to Elizabeth Isabella Caroline Salter (born circa 1820 – died 10 December 1900).

William Theobald

He retired from the service in June 1881 and died at Ilfracombe, Devon, England on 31 March 1908.


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1906 Swansea earthquake

The quake, which struck just a few weeks after the devastating 1906 San Francisco earthquake, was felt as far afield as Ilfracombe, Birmingham and southwest Ireland.

Architecture of Ilfracombe

The street facade, built in 1884 to designs by W H Gould, of the former Congregationalist Church is now 'The Lantern' community center, home of the Ilfracombe Farmers' Market.

Bob Evens

His career meant a number of moves for the Evens family, including a period in Exeter, where Robert attended Hele's School, and a later move to Ilfracombe.

Cornish Riviera Express

Additional slip coaches were added to be dropped from the train on the move at various stations to serve holiday destinations such as Weymouth, Minehead, Ilfracombe, and Newquay, and the train began to run non-stop to Newton Abbot where a pilot engine was added for the climb over the Dainton and Rattery banks, the southern outliers of Dartmoor.

Devon Belle

For the eastbound departure from Ilfracombe, it was usually necessary for assistance to be provided by a bank engine for the 1 in 36 climb from the terminus to Mortehoe & Woolacombe station.

English words without vowels

However, it is, in literary English, nearly always spelled combe (as in Ilfracombe and Castle Combe), coomb (as in J. R. R. Tolkien) or comb (as in Alfred, Lord Tennyson).

Helen Fry

Helen Fry (born 1967) is historian and biographer born in Ilfracombe, North Devon.

John Richards Lapenotière

Born in 1770 in Ilfracombe, Devon to a Huguenot exile family that came to Britain in 1688 with William of Orange, he came from a military family: His great grandfather, Frederick La Penotiere, served in the Royal Irish Regiment in the campaigns of the Duke of Marlborough in the War of the Spanish Succession and received a bounty for his service at the Battle of Blenheim, in 1704.

Sir Bourchier Wrey, 6th Baronet

He rebuilt the pier at Ilfracombe and established better arrangements for English fishermen in Bremen, Hamburg, Lübeck and Copenhagen.


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