Cabot Tower

There's an inscription on a stone inlaid on one side of the tower that reads….

This tower was erected by public subscription in the 61st year of the reign of Queen Victoria to commemorate the fourth centenary of the discovery of the continent of North America on the 24th June, 1497, by John Cabot who sailed from this port in the Bristol ship Matthew, with a Bristol crew under letters patent granted by King Henry VII to that navigator and his sons Lewis, Sebastian and Sanctus.