Bideford Devon
Bideford is an attractive town on
the banks of the Torridge estuary. Following the building
of a new bridge in the late 1980s it is not so busy with
the traffic heading into North Cornwall able to bypass the
town on the A39.
The
old road has a lovely famous bridge crossing the Torridge linking the town of
Bideford to its aptly named neighbour "East the Water".
This
area of North Devon was home to the Author Charles Kingsley, and where he based
his novel Westward Ho!, since that novel was published the town of Westward Ho!
has grown and was in-fact named after the book!
Bideford
still has some pleasant small streets and shops, although, in common with many
towns in the UK, many of the older shops are struggling as the out of town
shopping centres are developed. A large new development at Atlantic village on
the A39 heading West out of Bideford has attracted many new stores.
The
area around Bideford has some fascinating places to visit places such as Appledore,
Instow and Clovelly have there own charm, whilst at Great Torrington, the
Dartington Glass Factory has a visitors attraction and Factory shop.
