Mr Trevor Davey, of Bucks Cross, skipper of the Lundy Gannet, has applied to the Crown Commissioners for the rights of about a mile of foreshore at Bucks Mills.

He has done so, he said this week, on behalf of local people and the public.
But the new owner of the Walland Cary estate, Mr E E T Wood, a property director, whose claim to the foreshore has been allowed by the Crown Estate Commissioners, said he did not intend to anything to hinder the public. “I doubt whether I could anyway” he added.
He claimed that his deeds proved

The label on the box said chocolate bars; but Mr David Powell, who clutched it as he fell when part of a loft he was clearing in a derelict cottage at Bucks Mills collapsed, found that it contained 10 sticks of gelignite in a ‘sweating’ condition.

Mr Powell, who lives at Winsworthy, Clovelly, was clearing out Corner Cottage which belongs to his mother. It had been empty for nine months and to his knowledge, he said, no-one had been in the loft for more than 20 years.
An Army bomb disposal expert flew in by helicopter from Salisbury and disposed

The Village of a Single Surname

Clinging to the cliffs of the rocky, wave battered North Devon coastline west of Bideford, its cottages clustered in a small valley carved by north flowing streams in their rush to the sea, is the former fishing village of Bucks Mills.
Smaller and less spectacular than neighbouring Clovelly, three miles farther west along the coast, Bucks Mills shares something of the character of its bigger counterpart, yet has been largely spared the attentions which have made Clovelly a tourist's Mecca.
At Bucks Mills one senses predominantly the quietness of a remote coastal village,

Defies sea at Bucks Mills

Accompanying pictures show how ‘self-help’ by inhabitants of Bucks Mills has met the menace of the high seas which threatened to destroy the only slip-way.

Above a trader resident carries a hundred-weight sack of cement down the steep track

The general public gave generous monetary and physical response to the appeal of local initiative. The situation has been saved and the expenditure probably hundreds of pounds of public money has been avoided thereby. Bideford Rural District Council have their blessing! Donations from friends of Bucks should be sent to Mr A K Chope (acting hon.