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The Agatha Christie Mile Information Guide The following English Riviera locations are just a How To Get Here few of the many that boast connections with Agatha Christie's Riviera Agatha Christie, inspired her writing and appear BY CAR - From the end of the M5 at Exeter take the in the pages of her best selling crime novels. A38/A380 to the English Riviera. BY TRAIN - Virgin CrossCountry and Great Western trains Kents Cavern, Torquay All Saints Church, Torre Elberry Cove call at Torquay and Paignton. (01803 215136) (01803 328865) A peaceful cove surrounded by beautiful rolling South BY COACH - National Express services call at Torquay Agatha Christie's father was a fellow of the Natural Agatha was baptised at All Saints Church and regularly Devon hills yet here Sir Carmichael Clark met with and Paignton. History Society and helped finance the excavations. attended Sunday services. Her father made a financial his untimely death. Poirot is called in to investigate in BY AIR - Nearby Exeter and Plymouth have airports with Kents Cavern appears as Hempsley Cavern in ‘The donation to the church and ensured that Agatha was ‘The ABC Murders’. train or bus connections to the English Riviera. Man in the Brown Suit’, published in 1924, several entered in the records as a founder member. Visitors Churston Ferrers years before her own interest in archaeology was welcome, guided tours available. Nestled between Paignton and Brixham, Agatha stimulated by a trip to the Middle East. Where to Stay Cockington Court, Torquay frequently visited this quaint village, often attending Ansteys Cove, Torquay (01803 606035) her parish church, St Mary the Virgin Church, which The English Riviera has a wide choice of accommodation In the 1900's, Cockington Court was home to the Agatha often took moonlight picnics with her friends she later helped by financing repairs to the stained including top of the range hotels, great value guest houses, Mallocks, friends of the Miller family. Amateur Welcome to the English Riviera, the home on the tiny shingle beach at Ansteys Cove. It was here glass window from book royalties. After church, self catering apartments and caravan and camping parks. theatricals were often organised and Agatha was that she had a romantic encounter with a gentleman Agatha would often take lunch at Churston Court Details are available in the English Riviera Holiday Guide. of the world’s greatest crime fiction writer, encouraged to take part in the open-air dramatics on with Lord and Lady Churston. The Churston's sold the called Amyas Boston whose name was later used for the lawns in front of the house. Cockington Court & To obtain a copy of the Guide call on 0870 241 1535. Dame Agatha Christie. Manor in 1951 and it is now known as Ye Olde one of the characters in ‘Five Little Pigs’. Country Park is open all year round. Churston Inn. Churston Station appears as Meadfoot Beach, Torquay Oldway Mansion, Paignton Nassecombe Station in ‘Dead Mans Folly’ and as The Riviera Collection Shop Agatha was an enthusiastic swimmer and during the (01803 207930) itself in ‘The ABC Murders’. The Riviera Collection Shop, situated adjacent to Torquay's warm summer months would visit this beach nearly Originally built in 1874, Oldway Mansion was Tourist Information Centre, stocks a wide variety of Agatha every day. Mixed bathing was not permitted during Greenway Gardens reconstructed in 1904 for Isaac Singer of sewing Christie merchandise including a full range of her novels and (01803 842382) Agatha's day and males were not allowed within 50 machine fame. Agatha came to this magnificent plays, many videos, audio tapes, puzzles and murder Greenway Gardens is a beautiful woodland garden yards of ladies bathing machines! Mansion to attend social dances that were held in the mystery themed games, together with details of Agatha lavish ballroom. Oldway Mansion is open to the public. set on the banks of the River Dart. The Gardens are Christie Tour Guides and Murder Mystery themed breaks. Town Hall & Dispensary, Torquay part of the Greenway Estate which includes Greenway During WW1, the then Town Hall was used as a Red Paignton and Dartmouth House, previously Agatha's home, now the residence For more information call, email or drop in; Cross Hospital and when Agatha joined the Voluntary Steam Railway (01803 555872) of her daughter, Mrs Rosalind Hicks. The Gardens are Torquay Tourist Information Centre Aid Detachment she worked here as a nurse. In 1915 The steam train runs 7 miles from Paignton to open from March to October. Please call for further Vaughan Parade, Torquay, TQ2 5JG she transferred to the Dispensary where she acquired Kingswear following the coast and River Dart, details regarding opening times and access. Tel: 0906 680 1268 (Calls charged at 25p per minute.) her knowledge of poisons that later proved such an and was often a journey undertaken by Agatha. email: [email protected] integral part of her writing. Hercule Poirot also undertook this journey in ‘The ABC Details of Public Transport, Sites en Route Murders’ and again in ‘Dead Mans Folly’. The Steam and Visitor Maps are available from the Acknowledgements: Railway runs from Easter to October. English Riviera Tourist Information Centres. Mrs Rosalind Hicks, Mrs Joan Nott, Mr John Risdon & Agatha Christie Ltd. www.agathachristie.com Published by the English Riviera Tourist Board Elberry Cove Oldway Mansion Steam Railway Ansteys Cove Cockington Court We invite you to follow in the footsteps of Agatha Christie and discover the English Riviera that she knew and loved so dearly 1. THE GRAND HOTEL F 11.THE IMPERIAL HOTEL Agatha Christie It was the Grand Hotel where Agatha L E In the opening chapter of ‘Peril at and Archie spent their honeymoon E End House’, the Imperial Hotel, Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller was born in T after their wedding on Christmas Eve, S renamed the Majestic, is described Barton Road, Torquay on 15 September 1914. Two days later, Agatha Torre Torquay T 8 by Hastings as …"in its own grounds Torquay 1890 and spent much of her life in the area. travelled up to London with her new T Abbey on a headland overlooking the sea. husband and waved him goodbye as H Museum Educated at home, her first published piece E The gardens of the hotel lay below S T he set off to the war in France. It was K Princess T S R 2 R 7 D us freely interspersed with palm was a poem about electric trams in an I O 1 A N Gardens i A O to be 6 months before they would D Torre Abbey N W trees. The sea was of a deep and T G A R Ealing newspaper when she was just see each other again and nearly four O D O H T 'S R Sands M lovely blue." 11 years old. years before their married life really M D Y 6 EA A E DFOO R B 4 D T The terrace of the hotel is also the O Pavillion RO began. The Grand Hotel is well worth I R A M A R EA R V DFOO setting for the final chapter of O A T It was whilst her husband, Lt. Archie 5 L LAN D stopping at for morning coffee or E E T P E IL A R I H ‘Sleeping Murder’ when Miss Marple Christie of the Royal Field Artillery, was afternoon tea. Non-residents are R K 3 O D R T unravels the mystery for Gwenda A C most welcome. Torquay I P serving his country in France during the V and Giles. Princess Marina First World War, that Agatha began ...and TORQUAY STATION Pier Royal Torbay Yacht Club Agatha herself attended many social working as a nurse for the Red Cross In 1990 as part of the town’s Agatha 9 Christie Centenary Celebrations, the occasions here and the hotel still Hospital located in Torquay Town Hall. She N reflects the elegance and grandeur 2 O PAR Orient Express brought Hercule Poirot 1 Corbyn Sands K HILL T of that period. Experience ambience was later transferred to a dispensary where (David Suchet) to the station to meet N 10 G Haldon Grand I and elegance by taking morning she acquired her knowledge of poisons - Miss Marple (Joan Hickson) for the A P Pier Hotel 11 coffee or afternoon tea in the Palm first time. In her books Agatha O Corbyn Head Beacon central to the plot of The Mysterious Affair T Christie never allowed the two to Cove Court Room which boasts at Styles (1920), her first published novel. meet so it was a very special Imperial panoramic views of the Bay. occasion. Poirot and Marple came Agatha Christie Mile Hotel Further information about Agatha Christie Mile face to face on the platform, Miss the Agatha Christie Mile Marple held out her hand and Poirot, and other trails can be in his unique style, raised it to his lips 6. AGATHA CHRISTIE 10.BEACON COVE found in David Gerrard’s The Agatha Christie Mile takes you to some and kissed it. The watching crowd 4. PRINCESS GARDENS 8. TORQUAY MUSEUM BRONZE BUST At the turn of the century, Beacon of the places that were inspirational in the applauded! Opened in 1894, the gardens were Devon's oldest museum is home to book, ‘Exploring Agatha 4 The only one on view in the world. Cove was known as the Ladies' life and works of the great writer. Each of built to a classic Victorian design the Agatha Christie Centenary Christie Country’ available which includes ornate fountains, rich The Bust was unveiled on 15 Exhibition, the only one of its kind in Bathing Cove, although the men of from the Riviera Collection the locations are marked with a unique 2.
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