The newly built churches and chapels, the baths and libraries, the hotels and public gardens, the infirmary and the museum, the white streets, rising terrace above terrace, the gay villas peeping from the midst of shrubberies and flower beds, present a spectacle widely different from any that in the seventeenth century England could show.

At the opposite end of the bay lies, sheltered by Berry head, the stirring market town of Brixham, the wealthiest seat of our fishing trade.

A pier and a haven were formed there at the beginning of the present century, but have been found insufficient for the increasing traffic.

The population is about six thousand souls.

The shipping amounts to more than two hundred sail.