The Kings Arms
The Kings Arms was one of four adjoining public houses on the early quay. They were sited here to take full advantage of the location between the moorings and the town market.
The step down to the front door shows how much the quay has been raised since Elizabethan times.
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The Rose of Torridge
The Rose of Torridge, named after the heroine in Charles Kingsley’s novel “Westward Ho!” is another of the four public houses. It was built in 1626 as a private house and by the early nineteenth century had become the Newfoundland Hotel. This shows how important in those days the fishing trade from the Newfoundland Banks was to Bideford.
Leave the Quay via the lane running down the side of the Kings Arms
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