Brixham harbour and town
1940 to 1944 · Brixham, Devon
View this record on the map →- Date
- 1940 to 1944
- Record type
- Reported target area
- Bomb type
- target-area
- Location
- Brixham, Devon
- Position accuracy
- Rough area
What happened
Official Civil Defence records list 17 raids on Brixham itself between July 1940 and May 1943 — a very different picture from the local impression that the town escaped lightly. A former resident working from ARP incident books has since identified at least five further raids missing from that list.
Also worth knowing
Area marker. The raid list is explicitly incomplete: wartime record-keeping was patchy, and Brixham Urban District also covered the Kingswear side of the Dart, so some incidents appear in the Dartmouth records instead.