rogmore, like many of the villages around the SalcombeKingsbridge
Estuary, is a very old settlement. Its name is a Saxon one and means ‘the frog’s pool’. This sleepy backwater once functioned as a bustling quay, and the spring tides would bring quite large sailing ships right up the creek.
This Board was commissioned by the Kingsbridge Natural History Society www.knhs.org.uk
Printed with kind permission of Frogmore and Sherford Parish Council and Fiona van Es