[3] There was a Saxon settlement[citation needed], but the Devon historian WG Hoskins says of the local legend that it was the site of a Viking raid in 878 AD, 'there is no authority for this identification'.

The construction of a quay in 1845 further developed the port, and as a result Appledore has a rich maritime heritage from the second half of the 19th century.

[5] Shipowner Sir William Reardon Smith was born in Appledore and went to the Wesleyan school there.

From 1848 a second lifeboat was stationed at Braunton Burrows on the opposite side of the estuary but its crew always came from Appledore.

The line was wholly situated on the peninsula made up of Westward Ho!, Northam and Appledore with extensive sand dunes, at the mouth of the Torridge and Taw estuary.

Appledore railway station and the whole line closed in 1917 having been requisitioned by the War Office (Stuckey 1962).

This bus runs 6 times a week on Tuesdays and Thursday (3x each day)[citation needed] In his novel Westward Ho!, Charles Kingsley describes Appledore as a "little white fishing village".

The project was filmed for a Channel 4 documentary The Jacksons are Coming, which was aired on 27 November 2008.