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2 unusual facts about Teignmouth


Charles Vanden Wouwer

Charles Chaly Joseph vanden Wouwer or van den Wouwer (born 7 September 1916, date of death unknown) was a Belgian footballer who was born in Teignmouth (England).

The Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Royal Benevolent Society

From 1851 until 1854 it operated lifeboats at Lytham, Rhyl, Portmadoc, Tenby, Llanelly, Teignmouth, Hornsea and Newhaven but it was subsequently agreed that it would be wiser if one organisation concentrated on rescuing lives at sea while the other helped the survivors or their bereaved families ashore, so in 1854 the Society transferred its lifeboats to the RNLI.


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Cayman Brac

The Teignmouth Electron, the boat in which Donald Crowhurst attempted to sail round the world single-handed in the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race, has been left to decay on the south coast of Cayman Brac.

Exeter St Thomas railway station

In 1851 George Hennet was given permission to build a coal depot at St Thomas from where he could distribute coal, brought by train from his quay at Teignmouth.

Gatepost

Large balls, looking like finials are sometimes precariously perched on top of gateposts, as at Woodway House in Teignmouth, South Devon.

Shaldon

It is located on the south bank of the estuary of the River Teign, opposite the town of Teignmouth.

Valmouth

The town's name is a parody of actual seaside towns in the southwest peninsula of Britain, such as Falmouth, Dartmouth, Teignmouth, Exmouth and Weymouth.


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