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Trevor Beer, the well-known Devon writer and wildlife artist, was born on The Rock, Pilton, in January 1937 and died in June 2017. He went to Pilton School next to St Mary’s Church and his boyhood...

It is difficult to believe, given how narrow the River Yeo at Pilton is today, that there was once a thriving shipbuilding industry in Pilton dating back to the mid-18th century and lasting beyond ...

This photograph shows the family of William and Jane Bartlett (née Baker) of Pilton in about 1910. Their family has links to many North Devon families - Sanders, Passmore, Hobbs and Huxtable, amon...

There are eight bells in the tower of St Mary’s Church, Pilton, and they were last restored in 1969-70. Church bells were first recorded in Pilton in 1553 when there were five. These increased to ...

This photograph shows some of the Pilton Church Bellringers in 1955 outside St Brannock’s Church, Braunton. Those in the photograph have been identified as, from left to right: Unknown; Clem Chapma...

This photograph records ten of the many bellringers of the Church of St Mary the Virgin captured in 2008 by Martin Haddrill. From left to right: Back Row : Adrian Pope, Ron Kenwood, Jim Petherick,...

You have to be amazed by some of the things that went on in Pilton 100 years ago. In July 1912 the bellringers of Pilton Parish Church went on a record breaking run to Bude with a ‘coach and four’....