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Britain was creating strong ties with Portugal - the two countries fought together against their common enemy Spain – and so British traders were spared heavy import and export duties on goods. Portuguese wine was discovered to ‘age’ well into
Port after being used as ballast in some of the boats on their two leg trading mission. Dartmouth ships began to have their holds stocked with the stuff to age as they sailed across the Atlantic and then sold on for a high profit.
On this ‘triangle of trade’ Dartmouth’s wealth was
based for two centuries. It seems amazing that thousands of men from
Dartmouth made their living in the same way over hundreds of years. It’s as if I did the same thing to earn a wage as my Great-Great-Great-Great-Great Grandfather. But that’s what happened, and it created some of Dartmouth’s most notable and famous families. The Newman family, whose latest member is Sir
Geoffrey Newman, owner of Blackpool Sands, built their fortune on the triangular trade. One of the first families to quickly adapt and profit from the new way of trading, they made the most of it. They even had vineyards along the Portuguese Coast and made some wine of their own, cutting out the middle men and increasing their profit along the way. The Holdsworths, the Roopes, the Teages and the
Hunt families all created a family fortune and a legacy within the town of Dartmouth through this trade. By the mid-17th century they were landowning members of the community, building large homes for themselves and looking to help build up Dartmouth’s influence at home and abroad. Those who used the triangular trade to build up
their own wealth and influence then used it to build up Dartmouth. The New Quay – in front of the Royal Castle – was
built to allow the safe and easy docking of all the ships that now needed to use the Harbour, the new ‘Fosse’ was built to link the two sides of Dartmouth, this created the Mill Pool which would later be filled-in in the 19th century to create the area occupied by the Old Market and Victoria road, and the Butterwalk was also built in the Mid-17th century on the back of the Triangular Trade money pouring into the town. Brave men sailed across a wide and merciless sea in ships modern sailors would hesitate to take around to Torbay for this influential trade. Hard work, detailed planning and a determination to bring prosperity to their community resulted in the remarkable growth and development of Dartmouth.
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