Shipbuilding has always been important along the River Torridge but it wasn’t the only activity thriving along the estuary. 

The history of the riverside communities involves: timber, emigration, pottery, coal, gravel, fisheries, agriculture, energy, tourism and enterprise. 

And it’s not just history because today the river is home to: an active port, a thriving shipyard, a developing seaweed aquaculture business and soon a new cleantech maritime research facility. 

Bideford and River Torridge Heritage Harbour (BARTHH) aim to inform and educate about all this, promoting the vessels, museums, buildings, companies and the stories old and new from along the River Torridge. 

Visit, explore, discover . . . .  

Click on the icons below to find more about what there is to discover from Appledore at the mouth of the estuary to the canal basin and limekilns in Rosemoor Gardens, Torrington at the end of the Rolle Canal. 

Check out the self guided walk maps for Bideford and East the Water.

Contact Bideford and River Torridge Heritage Harbour