Buck's Mills Devon,
Buck's Mills village, Devon, originally known as ‘Buckish’ taken from the sea 
Tucked in behind the dip in the coastline after exposed Hartland Point, the coast here offers protection from winds from the southwest but there is also a spit of shallow water extending seawards that breaks up any Atlantic swell running up-channel.    . 
Very little of the present settlement existed before the year 1800 and throughout the 19c there no more than 30 dwellings,  Only the mill and a block of cottages, now named John’s and William’s, can be shown to have existed before 1800. 
However in the 15c there were attempts to build a harbour but this did not last long and succumbed to the ravages of the sea so that the village then relied on the cargo boats beaching in a gut that was blasted out from the foreshore rocks.  This gut can be seen today at low water, and both coal and limestone were landed on the beach during summer months to be burnt in two lime kilns built under the cliffs that can still be seen.
Fishing boats also operated off the beach and there are still a few remaining today.
Buck’s Mills got its name from the water mill driven by  the stream that ran down the valley that was used to grind corn.

Its geographical isolation and perhaps the personality of its inhabitants, made them a very self-contained and enclosed settlement; oral history suggesting that the residents were intolerant of incomers. As a result, increasing intermarriage during the 19c culminated in it being referred to as ‘the village of a single surname’ (The Evening Standard 1 March 1928) which has a basis in truth, as the 23 different surnames found in the village in 1841, dwindled to 13 in the space of two generations.
Apart from lime burning, the predominant occupations were  fishing and agriculture. Most inhabitants adopted a self-sufficient lifestyle, fishing in season and cultivating the slopes behind the village when time allowed. Agricultural labourers tilled their own plots and worked for one of the two large estates that owned most of the village. Villagers kept goats, chickens and the occasional pig on the terraces that ran behind the cottages.  Occasionally, residents found employment in the nearby quarry, or landing sand for building work. Throughout the 19c , the village provided many of its own services and shopkeepers, shoemakers, beer house keepers, masons, school mistresses and dressmakers can all be found. A particular feature of the village is that many of its residents held dual occupations; frequently agricultural labourers were also fishermen or mariners. Written records, such as census returns and baptismal registers, indicate that many individuals assumed different occupations during their lifetime . Records of baptisms that occurred close to census dates, often give the father’s occupations as something other than that enumerated in the census. 

Now there are no facilities ashore unless you are prepared for a long walk up to the main road,

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