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Thanks to the generosity of people within the Pilton Community, we have a small collection of books relevant to the history of Pilton and the surrounding area. Some of these books are available to borrow and there are others which visitors to The Pilton Story are welcome to browse through here at the office. We are always very grateful for donations of books that relate to the Pilton and surrounding area.

'Villages of North Devon' by Rosemary Anne Lauder
'Market Towns of North Devon' by Rosemary Anne Lauder
'Knights of Raleigh Manor' by Pat Barrow
'Barnstaple and all that.....' by Toni Allfry and Tina Gaydon
'William Frederick Rock' Edited by Joanna Andrews
'Victorian and Edwardian Devon from old Photographs' by Brian Chugg
'North Devon Pottery' by Alison Grant
'The Quest for the Green Man' by John Mathews (x2)
'The Devonshire Dialect' by Clement Marten
'North Devon Coast in old photographs' compiled by Beryl Yates
'North Devon Country in old photographs' compiled by Beryl Yates
'Strongs's Industries of North Devon' additions by B D Hughes.
Pilton Conservation Study (1971) Devon County Council Planning Department

We have also been donated copies of Pilton Parish Magazine for 1894, 1895, 1896, 1897, 1898, 1900 and 1907. These contain information on baptisms, marriages and burials in St Mary's Church. A number of these include the 'Home Words for Heart & Hearth' into which the Pilton Parish Magazine has been bound on pink paper. Thanks to Sally and Kim Turner and to Derek and Val Cull for various of these years.

We have also been donated a bound copy of the Pilton with Ashford Magazine for January 1972 to December 1974 containing information from the church registers and copies of the Exeter Diocesan Leaflet for the same period.

We also have single copies of the following Pilton with Ashford Magazine: Nov 1962, Nov 1963, Dec 1963, Jan 1964, Apr 1964, May 1964, Dec 1983, Jan 1984, Feb 1984, Jul 1984, Oct 1984, Apr 1985, Nov 1985, Dec 1985, Jan 1987, Jun 1987, Jul 1987 and Nov 1987.