Now, not wishing to come over all Westcountry on you... I believe Mr Ho is in Somerset, not Devon...

Not that that need preclude somewhere lying just south of that. And in any case if moi geographee be nart in the roight koinda areahh, there's definartlee one ah them thassavam exclumashion markie jarbies afer 'Ho'. Oh God I wish I hadn't grown up in Carrrnwalll...

Westward Ho! is indeed in North Devon. The main failing in the above the the absence of a railway line in the area Ho! Hum!