Brixham

BRIXHAM, seaport and urban district, Devonshire, England, 33m. S. of Exeter, on a branch of the G.W. railway. Pop. (1931) 8,147. The town is irregularly built on the cliffs to the south of Torbay, and its harbour is sheltered by a breakwater. Early in the 19th century it had important fortified barracks on Berry Head. It is the headquarters of the Devonshire sea-fisheries, having also a large coasting trade and coastguard and life boat stations. Shipbuilding and the manufacture of ropes, paint and oils are carried on. Brixham is in favour as a seaside resort. St. Mary's, the ancient parish church, has an elaborate 14th century font and some monuments of interest. At the British Seamen's Orphans' Home boys are fed, clothed and trained as apprentices for the merchant service. A statue commemorates the landing, in 1688, of William of Orange.

Brixham

Cave, called also Windmill Hill Cavern, is a well known ossiferous cave situated near Brixham, with a fauna closely resembling that of Kent's Hole. The implements are of a roughly chipped type. The formation of the cave was carried on simul taneously with the excavation of the valley; the small streams, flowing down the upper ramifications of the valley, entered the western opening of the cave, and traversing the fissures in the limestones, escaped by the lower openings in the chief valley.