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Pilton’s Role in the Development of Barnstaple's Water Supply from ...
This 1400-word article from the North Devon Journal of March 1933 reported a talk by the Manager of the Barnstaple Water Company, C. N Wood, to the Rotary Club of Barnstaple. The story begins in 1...
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KINDLY IMPULSE Pilton Farmer And The Milk : from the Western Morning N...
Before the County Bench at Barnstaple yesterday Otto Leopold Trechmann, landowner and farmer, of Westaway, Pilton, Barnstaple' pleaded "Guilty" to selling by retail fresh milk other than under the ...
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Postcard of Thanks from Westaway to a Dressmaker in Braunton Road c 1910
This is a postcard of Westaway, Pilton, (sometimes referred to as Westaway House) to a seamstress Mrs Whale of 'Costumia', Braunton Road, Barnstaple, from a satisfied customer living at Westaway, f...
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Benjamin Manning Fined for Toll Evasion in 1847
While the 'Save Manning's Pit' team was doing research for the Exhibition at the Museum of Barnstaple and North Devon in May 2017 they searched the British Newspaper Archives for mentions of Benjam...
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The Trechmans of Westaway in the 1920s
This photograph shows the wife and two daughters of Major Otto Leopold Trechman in fancy dress in the garden of Westaway, probably in the 1920s. Thanks to the daughters and grand-daughter (Nicola ...
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DESCENT OF WELSHE’S TENEMENT IN PILTON 16TH/19TH CENTURY
The property named in Christopher Lethbridge’s will of 1713 to be connected with a rent charge for the benefit of Pilton Church fabric was one third of approximately seven acres called Welshe’s Ten...
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Tablet in Memory of Christopher Lethbridge 1713 in Pilton Church
This tablet from 1713 commemorates Christopher Lethbridge of Westaway, Pilton. It is located on the north wall of the Vestry of St Mary's Church. The text is as follows: IN MEMORY OF CHRISTOPHER...
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The Story of Pilton Cricket Club by John Norman
This document tells the story of Pilton Cricket Club, now Barnstaple & Pilton Cricket Club, through the eyes of Pilton born and bred John Norman. Formed as Pilton Bible Class before the II Wor...
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