Westward Ho, on the coast of North Devon, 2½ miles W. of Bideford, owes not merely its name but its existence to Charles Kingsley's Elizabethan romance (1855), which attracted swarms of visitors to North Devon. For their accommodation this pretty cluster of villas and lodging-houses, with its church, hotel, club-house, and college, has sprung up since 1867. The bathing facilities are excellent, and it is a great resort of golfers. The village is in the parish of Northam.
Westward Ho
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 10: Swastika to Zyrianovsk and Index, p. 620
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