symmonds

Symondsbury and Eype

Now we be in Zider country! In the 1970s a local gamekeeper called Jack Cook passed away and he bequeathed his cider press to the villages and with the help of Sir John Colfix it was restored.

Symondsbury is both a parish and a village and is to the east of Bridport and adjacent to Netherbury then runs to the coast.

Its church is dedicated to St John the Baptist built in the 14th century on the site of a earlier building, and is in Early English style and is cruciform in shape,.


St Peter's Church at Eype

The interior of St Peters All photos above were kindly send in by Jenny Gape, Salisbury .EYPE There was also a chapel of Ease built at Eype which is a small village nearer the coast, and Higher Eype being a mile from Symondsbury. Hardly anything has changed here but it is said that electric lights were installed here before Bridport when Sir Philip Colfox started the Symondsbury Electric Light company and a local blacksmith made the fittings. The name Eype means 'steep place' and many of the buildings here are either late 18th or early 19th century but not much is known of its history until the Victorian era. The Golden Cap is the highest cliff on the south coast at 191 ft above sea level and can be seen on Eype beach.