This website is a 'clickable map' giving details of the
meaning and origin of the place names around Hele, Ilfracombe, in north Devon.
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Beacon Point
Bear Pit Beara
Blythes Cove and Joe Moon's
Bowden Brimlands
Broadstrand Beach
Buggy Pit
Chambercombe
Comyn Donkey Island
Fishing Rock
East and
West Haggington Hele
Hillsborough
Hockey Hole
Ilfracombe Keypit
Killacleave
Kitstone Hill
Larkstone
Little Town Pig's Gut
Rapparee Cove
Rillage Point
Samson's Bay Slew
Tom Norman's Hole
Higher and Lower Trayne
Warmscombe
Widmouth Winsham
Yard