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Throughout the Victorian years the population of Pilton grew by leaps and bounds as people crowded into Barnstaple from the surrounding parishes in search of work, bringing their families with them...

It is difficult to imagine the tower of Pilton Church topped with a lead spire, similar to the ones at Ashford, Barnstaple, Braunton, Swimbridge and others in North Devon. However, that was the ca...

This is the New Inn which was converted from a public house to a dwelling about 1971 . It advertises Starkey, Knight and Ford Prize Medal Ales and Stout. It became The Maltings (No 29 Pilton Stre...

This was the report of the first Pilton Festival Pageant, Parade and Fair, held on 24th July 1982, in the North Devon Journal of 29th July. The Pageant depicted people and events throughout Pilton...

This picture is from a postcard based on a watercolour painted by Edwardian artist Henry B Wimbush and used as part of a series of six postcards of Barnstaple and a larger Oilette series of postcar...

John Norman of Pilton recounts the story of the Battle of Manning's Pit, Pilton, Barnstaple, Devon, around Tutshill Woods against the Bradiford Gang as told in a poem written by his cousin Brian No...

Shearford Lane, also known as Venn's Lane or Stinking Lily Lane for the wild garlic which thrives on it, is a typical Devon sunken lane. It originally led from Pilton to Playford, Blakewell and Bl...