translate English to German: Monksbridge was a bridge built by the monks of Totnes Priory. Lichfield Drive was the route that the dead (from the Anglo-Saxon ‘lich’ meaning a corpse) were taken for burial at St Mary’s churchyard.
Im zweiten Weltkrieg war Brixham einer der Verladehäfen für die Invasion der Alliierten in der Normandie, was dem kleinen Ort einiges abverlangte.