Crossword-Solution: BIDEFORD 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 15

However, as I say above, there are several great towns which do not choose Parliament men, of which Bideford is one, Crediton or Kirton another, Ilfracombe a third; but, those excepted, the principal towns in the county do all choose members of Parliament.

Off the port of Bideford, the boat was sent ashore to the post-office, the yacht standing off and on, waiting the appearance of the letters.

Turton was writing his book on British shells at Bideford, to call them Nautili, because their shells were like Nautilus shells.

OXENHAM SAW THE WHITE BIRD “The hollow oak our palace is, Our heritage the sea.” All who have travelled through the delicious scenery of North Devon must needs know the little white town of Bideford, which slopes upwards from its broad tide-river paved with yellow sands, and many-arched old bridge where salmon wait for autumn floods, toward the pleasant upland on the west.

But at the time whereof I write, Bideford was not merely a pleasant country town, whose quay was haunted by a few coasting craft.