Passage House

The Passage House Inn is all that is left of the small hamlet of Hackney on the bank of the river Teign. You can see the remains of a few very small cottages further up the bank.  Lord Clifford, who owned the land, built a canal between the hamlet of Hackney and Newton Abbot including a tidal lock. This made it possible for the ball clay dug from mines in Kingsteignton to be transported and held in clay cellars in Hackney, from where it was loaded onto barges to be carried on to Teignmouth.

I walked up the path a little to a position where I could look back at the inn and the speedboat moored by the jetty. The tide is well out as you can see but the setting sun behind me is lighting the scene beautifully.

Frances and her two boys, Hamish and Henry, are down from Edinburgh and staying with us tonight before moving on to other family members tomorrow.