Exmouth has long been an attractive place to live
- Credit: Alex Walton
Summer is here again, so it seems as good a time as any for us to remember that for a glorious period lasting roughly one century between the 1750s and the 1850s, the town of Exmouth enjoyed a glorious and golden period as one of the most fashionable coastal resorts in the land.
Conditions were perfect. A century before, Exmouth had been occasionally raided by Algerian pirates on the lookout for booty to plunder. These rogues often ended up departing with human cargo, kidnapping townspeople who they would then attempt to sell as slaves in North Africa.