Box Wallet ContentsAlmshouses Box 1 Minutes and Correspondence

Almshouses Box2 Rent books and general

correspondence

Almshouses Box 3Accounts

1954 - 1999, minus a few years. Also Treasurer's Ledger, Jan 1976 - Dec

1993.

Almshouses Box 4 Plans and surveys See Extensive list in box.

Amenity Society

Box 1

Society formation; proposed

constitution

Amenity Society

Box 1First Minute book, Feb 1974 - Dec 1987 Condition: charred! Survived a house fire.

Amenity Society

Box 1Minute notebooks, 1977 - 1979, 1980

Amenity Society

Box 1

Plymouth & West Devon Record Office

receipt for Minutes Oct 1993 - March

2003

Wembury Local History Society Archive Catalogue

This document is searchable using the Ctrl + F function and inserting key words.

Version 28.9.2016

It is organised thematically, as indicated in the first column below.

The current list of themes is: Almshouses; Amenity Society; Carnival; Census data; Church; Clubs and Societies; Down Thomas and Heybrook Bay; Families; Farms and Farming; Garden Society; Langdon & the Calmadys; Miscellaneous; Parish Council; Places; Plymouth; Smithy; Wembury; Wembury at War; Wembury Beach; Wembury House and Thorn; Wembury Dock Scheme; Wembury Point and the Mewstone; Wembury WI (afternoon group).

Amenity Society

Box 1

Committee Minutes, March 1989 -

April 2000

Amenity Society

Box 1

Committee Minutes, July 2000 - May

2013

Amenity Society

Box 1

AGM Minutes, 1982, 85, 86, 88, 89 &

1993 - 20132004 missing

Amenity Society

Box 1

Treasurers' reports, 1979 - 81, 89, 90,

95, 96,98, 2002, 03Also receipts for footpath guide and nature booklet.

Amenity Society

Box 1Membership lists, 1990 & 2004/5

Amenity Society

Box 2

Village Hall newsletters, 1956 - 59 &

1962

Amenity Society

Box 2

Amenity Society newsletters, 1975 -

1989

Amenity Society

Box 2

Amenity Scoiety newsletters, 1993 -

2003 & 2006 - 2008

Amenity Society

Box 2

Planning applications, May 1998 - Dec

2003

Amenity Society

Box 2

Planning applications, Jan 2004 - Sept

2005

Amenity Society

Box 2Planning: local iasssues

Amenity Society

Box2Planning general papers

AmenitySociety Box

2Community Action Award, 2000

Amenity Society

Box 3South Hams Local Plan maps

Amenity Society

Box 3Wembury maps

Amenity Society

Box 3Footpath Guide

Amenity Society

Box 3HMS Cambridge radar Mast proposal

Amenity Society

Box 3Photographs, HMS Cambridge, 1999

Amenity Society

Box 3Wembury Point / HMS Cambridge sale See also items in the Wembury Point and Mewstone box.

Wembury Amenity

Society

Wembury Amenity Society and the

purchase of Wembury Point

Amenity Society Chair's statement re NT purchase of the Point.

Amenity Society

Box 3Bovisand Chalets sale

Amenity Society

Box 3Church Wood Estate sale

Amenity Society

Box 3Proposed listed buildings

Amenity Society

Box 3

Marine Conservation Area and Yealm

Estuary

Amenity Society

Box 3Devon Conservation Forum

Amenity Society

Box 3South Hams Amenity Societies

Amenity Society

Box 3AONB miscellaneous

Amenity Society

Box 3Countryside

Amenity Society

Box 3Highways

Amenity Society

Box 3Nature Trail booklets

Amenity Society

Box 4 Official

reportsOfficial reports

South Hams plans; Countryside Commission, village design, managing

public access; National Trust Open Countryside, Access Review; Devon

County Council, Devon's hedges; TETRA report on communication masts.

Carnival Correspondence and inventory

Carnival Minutes and copy of constitution

Carnival Newspaper cuttings and press

photographs

CarnivalStatement of accounts, 1974 - 1993

Carnival Programmes

Carnival Headed paper, posters, tickets and

certificates

Carnival Carnival papers, 1978 - 1987

Census DataCensus abstracts 1841 - 1991

Chiefly 19th century; only 1991 in 20th. Mainly very general, but some

specifics on Langdon.

Census Data1881 census

Data on all individuals, by address. Presumably transcribed from

enumerators’ lists.

Church Box 1 WLHS record of graves & memorial

plaques Volumes 1 and 2

WLHS record produced by Michael Arnold and Peter Williams. Revised and

updated December 2008 Volume 2. Also available as downloads from the

website.

Church Box 1 Graveyard & Memorials 3 of 3 Ring binder – Alphabetical list of those interred in the churchyard, February 1813 to January 2009.

Church Box 1 Churchyard & Internal Memorials Photographic record of memorials

Church Box 2 Churchyard Wall restoration and

churchyard extension

1926 appeal to parishioners

Church Box 2 Church photographs Peter Lugar’s photos used on information board in church. Blind arcading behind altar. Bells. Various postcards and photographs. WLHS displays.

Church Box 2 Beating the bounds Material from 2011

Church Box 2 St George’s Windsor Attendance at “Our Parishes” held at Windsor 1979

Church Box 2 Services Commemoration services, concerts, special events

Church Box 2 Services Orders of service for various parishioners’ funerals

Church Box 2 John Galsworthy Notes on the Galsworthy connection and the Galsworthy Festival, 1983

Church Box 2 National Trust Peter Lugar’s correspondence with NT and others re. scrub surrounding church.

Church Box 2 History Legend of St Werburgh and church origins/historical documents

Church Box 2 St Werburgh Young Wives Programmes 1984/85, 1985/86, 1987/88. Accounts 1984/85. See also Clubs and Societies box.

Church Box 2 Newspaper cuttings

Church Box 2 National Needlework Archive WI Textile recording project 2004

Church Box 2 Booklet Family favourite recipes re Restoration appeal

Church Box 2 Parish Room (or Church Room) Report on history of parish room and photographic record.

Church Box 2 Parish records List of documents held by Plymouth & West Devon Record Office

Church Box 2 Parish records 1st copy of Wembury History Archives

Church Box 2 Parish records Parish records of Wembury – Plymouth City Library

Church Box 2 Wembury Millenium Map

Church Box 3 Church guidebooks and other

publications

Various editions the Romantic Story of Wembury Church. A short history of

Wembury – CHD Grimes. Family favourite recipes - produced as part of

Restoration appeal.

Church Box 3 Flower festivals Programmes and publicity from flower festivals over the years. Video of the Millennium Flower Festival 2000

Church Box 4 Church restoration, 1885 Letters concerning restoration, copied from DRO.

Church Box 4 Church Room Deeds correspondence,

1929

Letters relating to missing deeds.

Church Box 4 Diamond Jubilee Communion service,

2012

Order of Service.

Church Box 4 St Wergurgh's Flower Festival, 2014 Brochure.

Church Box 4 Lockyer Festival Thanksgiving Service,

1979

Includes account of Edmund Lockyer's role in Western Australia. See also

Wembury House and Families boxes.

Church Box 4 Rotas, various dates, 1963-82 Originals.

Church Box 4 The Cliff Church Poem by John Galsworthy. Also includes a set of questions re St Werburgh's. These sound as though they were part of a school visit.

Church Box 4 Press cuttings

Church Box 4 St Werburgh's pew plan, 1864 Manuscript

Church Box 4 St Werburgh's pew plan, 1870s Offprint from AC Clamp, Recollections of Wembury

Church Box 4 St Werburgh tea towel from Chester Artefact. The saint's remains are in Chester.

Church Box 4 Wembury Church - Duxbury Chalice

and Paten

Notes and photographs by Peter Lugar.

Clubs and Societies Down Thomas Over-55s Club Extract from Wembury Review (appeared in 2016)

Clubs and Societies Girl Guide sash Artefact. Excellent condition.

Clubs and Societies 1st Wembury Venture Scouts Press cutting.

Clubs and Societies Young Wives' Group Minutes - start September 1969, end June 1981. Also account statement for 1978-79.

Clubs and Societies Not-So-Nimble foundation, December,

1959

Circular.

Clubs and Societies !st Wembury Scout Group Disco ticket

Clubs and Societies Mothers' Union Young Wives' Group First Minute book, plus associeted papers.

Clubs and Societies Press cuttings

Down Thomas and

Heybrook Bay

War memorial decision

Down Thomas and

Heybrook Bay

Holiday Camps: the Heybrook Bay Lido

and the Patches - early photographs

and notes

History Society has high-resolution jpgs of many of the photographs.

Down Thomas and

Heybrook Bay

Lark's Rise, Down Thomas

Down Thomas and

Heybrook Bay

Star Garage and the Newton Family Includes material on early bus services.

Down Thomas and

Heybrook Bay

Reminiscences of Heybrook Bay By Jill Smith

Down Thomas and

Heybrook Bay

Heybrook Bay: Photographs, plus

annotated notes

Down Thomas and

Heybrook Bay

Petrol station application Press cutting

Down Thomas and

Heybrook Bay

Silver Jubille Hall History Papers and old photographs from opening (1935) onwards.

Down Thomas and

Heybrook Bay

Deeds, 7, Furzebrook Road, Heybrook

Bay

Down Thomas and

Heybrook Bay

Down Thomas - failed housing

development application

Papers assembled during planning appeal process,

Down Thomas and

Heybrook Bay WI,

no box currently

held.

Papers for this WI branch are still with the branch; those wishing to use them

should contact either the branch Secretary or President.

Families Black ring-binder

Galsworthy

Family Tree - List of Wembury mariners 1619; Wingstone Manor Farm sale

record (previously rented by John Galsworthy). Extract from Life and Letters of

JG. Family

photographs Galsworthy Festival St Werburgh’s 1983.

Families Drake See green ring binder Family Tree - Drakes in Rose Villa (29 Knighton Rd) article

Families Axworthy See green ring binder Undated letter from Alan (?Axworthy) to Robert Rowland re William Axworthy

Families Algate See green ring binder St Werburgh’s church baptisms and deaths from 1865 Transcription of sale of a cottage occupied by Joseph Algate 1802 Correspondence from Eileen Arnold

Families Gullett See green ring binder Peter Lugar correspondence quoting work by PL Gullet notes from family bible James Gullett b1820 at Wembury Mills Gulletts in St Werburgh’s graveyard with

photograph of headstone of Sarah and Elisha Gullett d1858

Families Atrill Substantial famil tree material.

Families Cook, Willings, Witheridge Related to Atrills

Families Hulk Chielfy family photographs.

Families Lugar Photos and commentary by Peter Lugar of Lugars at Gabber Farm1918 to early 1940s

Families Rowse List of Rowse marriages with no recorded family connection. Family tree. Lease of Ford 1724. Lease of Lower Ford 1736 and 1786.

Families Soloman FTM format family tree from Arthur Soloman d 1887 Family photographs annotated FTM genealogy report by John Cuthbert

Families Yabsley Undated but old family photographs not annotated

Families Stidey family

Families Sir Edward Thornton Letter from David Paplin to Rev Terry Freeman.

Families Green ring-binder

Mount Edgcumbe

Colour photos of portraits of earl and family

Families Lockyer (general papers)

Families Lockyer family tree

Families Edmund Lockyer

Families Henry Lockyer

Families Orlando Lockyer

Families Lockyer document transcripts

Families Lockyer Australia references

Families Sir Warwick Hele, will, 1625

Families Hele family General material

Families The Drews in Wembury, 1947-55 Wide-ranging memories relating to Wembury.

Families Studholme

Families Cory

Families Sly

Families Rowland

Families Sir Shilstone Calmady, will, 1641 Copy of typed transcript.

Families Circular issued by Laura Calmady, 1884 Indications of family conflict.

Families Residents: press cuttings Various cuttings re local people.

Families

Farms & farming Land use, 1942 Copied from the Plan for Plymouth

Farms & farming Land use, 2016 Field survey map

Farms & farming Harvesting on the cliffs, 1889 Watercolour by Thomas James Lloyd (1849 -1910). Small photocopy. Scene is Wembury Cliffs, looking towards the Yealm.

Farms & Farming Gabber Farm Sale, 1933 Gabber farm sale particulars, Oct 26th 1933. Also Wembury Wood &Wood Cottages; Rodd North Ditch; & Jennys Park.

Two of each. Plus maps. Executors [of?] Mr W T Hockaday.

Farms & Farming Thorn Estate sale particulars 1935 Photocopy. Sale by Mrs Sebag-Montefiore. 312 acres, cottages, 45 acres & river frontage ¾ mile. Also

1970s sale by Mrs Crossley-Meates of Thorn Cottages.

Farms & Farming Wembury House & Estate sale c. 1988 Old Barton and Knighton Farm 387 acres in all and mansion house

Farms & farming Wembury Estate sale (mid-1990s) Map of large area in eastern Wembury (Old and New Barton Farms) that was placed on the market. Land was purchased by the National Trust.

Farms & Farming Spirewell Farm 1998 Spirewell and Leyford farms, 254 acres, for Messrs Jewell Bros. Also Heathfield Farm.

Farms & Farming Old and New Bartons 1995 For John Rogers 447 acres.

Farms & Farming Traine Farm Photograph - harvesting etc 1940s 1950s

Farms & Farming Letters 1 Proposed development of West Wembury Farm - Michael Arnold to planning officer. 2

Langdon sale catalogue entry for Wembury Wood - Michael Arnold to Margaret

Bodenham

Farms & Farming The Wembury Estate Agents' brochure.

Farms & Farming Old and New Barton Farms Agents' brochure.

Farms & Farming Spirewell Farm Agents' brochure.

Farms & Farming Langdon Court Estate sale catalogue,

1927

Copy without maps. For maps, see Langdon box.

Farms & Farming Langdon 1927 sale: prices obtained and

farms detailsFarms & Farming Langdon Court Estate sale catalogue,

1929

Catalogue produced to sell remainder of estate.

Farms & Farming New Barton Farm Letter re: German POW worker, 1948

Farms and farming National Trust purchase of Old and

New Barton Farms

Press cuttings, 1996.

Garden Society Accounts, 1958-9; Annual Show,

programme, 1977; Annual programme,

1975-6Garden Society Minute books May 1987 - 1997

Garden Society General papers 3 folders

Garden Society Show programmes

Garden Society 3 letters 1969, 1979, 1984.

Garden Society September 2010-Sept 2011

Garden Society September 2011 Disposal of Society funds to “Perennial” Gardener Charity

Garden Society May 2011 Storage of cups in Village Hall with one given to J Boasden of Wembury 1987. Description and valuation of cups. Agenda and Minutes + Special General

Meeting to dissolve Society Accounts, Octber 2010 to May 2011, Donation to

Perennial.

Garden Society September 2009 – June 2010 Details of meetings and correspondence with speakers. Committee meetings and AGM agendas and minutes. Programme of talks. Accounts.

Garden Society September 2008 – June 2009 Details of meetings and correspondence with speakers. Committee meetings and AGM agendas and minutes. Programme of talks. Accounts. Copy of Feb 2007

Wembury Review.

Garden Society 2007-2008 Details of meetings and correspondence with speakers. Committee meetings and AGM agendas and minutes. Programme of talks. Accounts.

Garden Society 2006 Details of meetings and correspondence with speakers. Committee meetings and AGM agendas and minutes. Programme of talks. Accounts.

Garden Society 2002-2006 Details of meetings and correspondence with speakers. Committee meetings and AGM agendas and minutes. Programme of talks. Accounts.

Garden Society 1998 Constitution List of cups Letter of affiliation with Royal Horticultural Society

Garden Society 1988-1991 Programme. Letters to and from speakers.

Garden Society 1984 1984 letter of thanks to C.P.Soppet from reconstituted committee 1979 letter asking C.P.Soppet to give a talk on meteorology

Garden Society Miscellaneous 1975/6 list of meetings 1969 letter to C.P. Soppet thanking him for work at Annual Show 1956/7 accounts.

Garden Society Booklets Miscellaneous booklets mostly advertising and undated Speakers booklets

Heybrook Bay

Residents'

Association

Archiving still in progress Agendas and minutes; planning; correspondence, etc.

Langdon & the

Calmadys

The Calmady Pictures Ring file of paintings by the Calmady sisters. Prepared by Peter Lugar.

Langdon & the

Calmadys

Langdon Court History Ring file of articles, photographs and drawings.

Langdon & the

Calmadys

Register of Parks & Gardens - Langdon

Court Hotel, Devon

This is an extremely detailed and important document.

Langdon & the

Calmadys

Langdon Court Estate, South Devon,

sale catalogue (1927)

Original document and maps. Annotated.

Langdon & the

Calmadys

Langdon Estate Sale, 1927, prices paid. M/s transcription from annotated catalogue.

Langdon & the

Calmadys

Wembury Bay and Knighton, sale

catalogue, 1929Original (delicate) copy of the 2nd sale catalogue. Photocopy in the Farms

and Farming box.Langdon & the

Calmadys

Langdon ownership chronology Manuscript (undated but quite recent).

Langdon & the

Calmadys

Langdon Hall, Devonshire, 1829 Photocopy.

Langdon & the

Calmadys

Tree planting at Langdon Account of restoration, 2007, by Wembury Amenity Society and Wembury

Local History Society.Langdon & the

Calmadys

Circular issued by Laura Calmady Evidence of family conflict.

Langdon & the

Calmadys

Letter re: Langdon Court Modern, written by Richard Thorpe.

Langdon & the

Calmadys

Hydraulic ram operation Relevant because rams were used on Langdon Estate. See 1927 sale map

at bottom of Pump Hill.Langdon & the

Calmadys

Poetic description of Langdon, 1715 M/s copy.

Langdon & the

Calmadys

Vincent Calmady, licence to pillage

Plympton Priory

Photocopy and transcript.

Langdon & the

Calmadys

Sir Shilstone Calmady, will, 1641 Copy of typed transcript.

Langdon & the

Calmadys

Donation of land for Poor House by

Charles Biggs Calmady

Transcript, whereabouts of original unknown.

Langdon & the

Calmadys

Langdon court press cuttings

Langdon & the

Calmadys

Features at Langdon listed in the'At

Risk' register, 2003

Press cutting. Also covers other parishes.

Miscellaneous The Pilchard Fishery From Rambles Beyond Railways, Wilkie Collins

Miscellaneous Brixham Urban Fringe Landscape Study AONB report.

Miscellaneous Thurlestone Golf club - the Centary Commemorative book.

Miscellaneous Observations on building-brick makers

in Plymouth and West Devon, 1870-

1939

Typescript. Author Peter Forbes (Veasy Park resident) . Also, a separate set

of 4 maps of Steer Point brickworks.

Miscellaneous Booklets and Pamphlets List to be added to catalogue.

Miscellaneous Sundry List to be added to catalogue.

Miscellaneous Sundry List to be added to catalogue.

Miscellaneous Newspaper cuttings Eileen Arnold’s newspaper cutting see envelope.

Miscellaneous RAF Mountbatten History

Miscellaneous Booklets and Pamphlets See list in file

Miscellaneous Finding of Plymouth City Tramways'

safe

Letter from Richard Thorpe, 12.6.2003.

Miscellaneous Looe Island Offprint from Cornwall Association of Local Historians' Journal, Spring 2005

Miscellaneous Torbay: aerial photographs, 1999 Excellent oblique photographs, chiefly coastal, re a pipeline.

Parish Council Agendas and Minutes, 1970-77

Parish Council Standing Orders, 1973, 1977

Parish Council Beating the Bounds, 1967 Letter.

Parish Council Miscellaneous papers; 2 boxes Note: numerous other PC papers are lodged with the PWDRO.

Parish Council

One Hundred Years of Wembury Parish

Council, 1895-1995

Brochure of extracts from Minutes.

Parish Council

Silver Jubilee Appeal and Celebrations,

1977

Working papers and souvenir programme.

Places Almshouses: Sir Warwick Hele will,

1625Typed transcript.

Places Almshouse renovation, 1956 Brief mention in parish magazine.

Places Almshouses renovation, 1975 Press cutting.

PlacesAlmshouses: Extract from the Devon

County Monuments Register

Photocopy of manuscript. See also Listed building document in this

archive.

Places The Hele Almshouses Author Peter Lugar. Text and photographs.

Places Gold ingot find Email, picture and map.

Places Marine Centre press cuttings Includes record of 50% European Community funding for construction.

Places1999 Churchwood Valley Proposed sale Agent's brochure.

Places Church Wood Holiday Hamlet Brochures.

Places Yealm Estuary Management Plan Undated, but post-2000.

Places Monckswood Portrait of George Monck.

Places Wembury Mill Recollections of Martin Smith.

Places

Possible leat remains in Church Fields Letter with map, sent to Devon Archaeology Service, 1.3.2001.

Places Mill Meadow Management Plan National Trust, June 1999.

Places Roper's Field history Letter from Margaret Neilsen (née Roper).Places Roper's Field OS map Early 1950s? Shows extent of shack development.

Places Roper's Field clearance, 1999 Press cutting inc. photo.

PlacesRoper's Field clearance and

rehabilitation, 1999

8 photographs of volunteers.

Places Bovisand Lodge Estate brochure

Places Diving Centre Diving activities at Bovisand

PlacesBovisand Estate Bovisand Estate To Be Let to Tenants Association. Letter From South Hams

District Council dated 13th August 1981. (Subject is Bovisand chalet park.)

Places Bovisand Lodge

Places Bovisand Beach Undated. Early interwar?

Places Bovisand aerial photo, 1993 Press cutting.

Places

Staddon Heights Defences Ancient

Monument

Download from Historic England website, 2015. Little known, but of exceptional

importance; of national and international significance.

PlacesCliff Road: attempt to control

pedestrian accessPlaces Jubilee InnPlaces Knighton

PlacesLost village of South Wembury Suggestions, with photographs, relating to a possible lost village. By John Mills?

PlacesBovisand - once a fort, now an

underwater centre

Booklet by Arthur L Clamp. Undated.

PlacesWembury Church, Mill Farm, Mill

Meadow and Mill

Photo, 1909? Enhanced print by David Pinder from glass plate negative owned by

Mrs Kath Pursley.

Places Cliff Road Early development after Langdon Estate break-up, 1927 onwards.

Places The Mewstone: various accountsPlaces River Yealm Letter from South West Water Authority.

Places Wembury Bay and the Yealm Photocopy (1 page). Unknown source.

Places Wembury Mills Display material.

PlacesWembury Wood Letter, John Bodenham to Mike Arnold, plus copy of Wembury Wood page from

Langdon 1927 sale catalogue.

Places Wheal Emily Mine Descriptions, 1922 and 1974.

Places Hollacombe Wood Woodland Trust material.

PlacesBovisand Lodge and the Breakwater Text and pictures donated by Rita Hart (owner, 2015).

Places Knighton Hill development Papers relating to proposed development, post-2010.

Places

Reaching the Heights - one hundred

years of Staddon Heights Golf Club

2004. In addition to the history of the club, contains important material relating

to the Staddon Heights Military Landscape (Wembury's Ancient Monument - of

national and international significance).

Places Wrecks near Wembury Mill Entries copied from Gullett family Bible.

PlacesPapers relating to Knighton

development

Papers collected by Tony Romang

PlacesPlans of Laburnum Drive development

Places Lagdon Barton barn sale, 2006 Sale prior to renovation and conversion to accommodation.

Plymouth Paton-Watson, J and Abercrombie, P. A Plan for Plymouth, 1943 Original copy donated by Robin Gray in 2015. Planning area extends beyond city

boundary and includes Wembury. There is important material relating to

Wembury, not least a land-use map of 1942 which is highly relevant to both the

'Farms and Farming' and 'Wembury at War' sections of the archive. This map

faces page 128. See also Appendix 1a, commencing page 116 for an analysis of

land quality extending to Wembury and the surrounding area.

Plymouth Newspaper cuttings (blue album) Old

Plymouth

See list in file compiled by Eileen Arnold.

Plymouth Blitz and reconstruction Newspaper cuttings.

Plymouth Plympton Priory Mill Report on excavations, 1988, Plympton Priory. Also notes on parish of St Mary’s.

Plymouth The Co-operative Way Natural history walk brochure.

Plymouth Hooe Barton Farm Booklet by Robin Blythe-Lord.

Plymouth Devonport Dockyard

Plymouth History of Royal William Yard L W M Stephens

Plymouth Archaeology in Plymouth, 1993

symposium

University of Plymouth

Plymouth St Dunstan’s Abbey prospectus

Plymouth The Great Fire 1840 Booklet recounting dockyard fire

Smithy Coleman Family photographs (1) Peter Lugar’s Symons Coleman families. Coleman photographs. Richard Coleman award. John Coleman award Ellen Coleman. 1864 St Werburgh’s pew plan

(Coleman bottom right). John Hensleigh’s financial problems.

Smithy Coleman Family photographs (2) Annotated photographs of family plus copies of two paintings by Claude Kitto

Smithy Smithy & Cottage Peter Lugar’s Blacksmith Cottage Extracts from Tony Bowring’s MA Coursework. Wembury Smithy Synopsis of deeds of cottage. Listing statements for cottage

and smithy. History of cottage from maps. Edith Kitto’s recollections of cottage

history. Photographs of Smithy submitted on behalf of Edith Kitto to unknown

recipient. (Possibly ties up with Arnold correspondence with National Trust and

Devon Historic Buildings Trust.) Copy of Estae Agent's sale details 2008.

Smithy Arnold Correspondence re transfer of cottage and smithy to Devon Historic Buildings Trust or National Trust 1997-1998. Dept. of Environment Planning Policy

Guidelines 1994. Cottage Listing Statement. Plans of smithy OS map showing

smithy. Correspondence with solicitor re photographing house and cottage after

Edith Kitto’s death. Copy of sale details of smithy and cottage with photographs.

Smithy Miscellaneous 1931 Ellen Challis’s pledge to God. Edith Challis (Kitto) baptism card 1912. Claude Kitto’s art class literature. 1987 Sketch of cat. Photograph of dog Copi. 1937

Letter to Arnolds from Kittos.

South Devon AONB Various annual and management

reports.Wembury Parish Poor Rates, 1719-20 Photocopies of originals.

Wembury Tithe documentation, 1862 Transcripts; letter.

Wembury Tithe Apportionment document, 1938 version.

Wembury Tithe history and operation Explanatory paper.

Wembury Poor Rates Records 1719-1720.

Wembury Wembury Parish Appraisal, 2001 Report of survey of residents.

Wembury National Trust Land in Wembury, 2016 A3 map

Wembury National Trust maintenance work,

2000

NT Yealm and Avon Area Newsletter.

Wembury Robert Guyver file, 1985 Wide-ranging topics assembled from various sources.

Wembury Wembury documents deposited in the

Plymouth and West Devon Record

Office

Lists from 1611 onwards.

Wembury General press cuttings

Wembury Wembury aerial photo, 1991 Press cutting. View from sea over church to settlement.

Wembury Benjamin Donn map (1765) Covers Plymstock to the Erme.

Wembury Wembury Review The History Society has a nearly complete set of the monthly reviews, dating back to 19XX. These provide extensive information concerning parish news, clubs and

activities, etc.

Wembury Wembury Newsletter, December 1961 Stapled A3 typescript.

Wembury Land use, 2015 Google Earth screen shot.

Wembury Parish map, July 1955 Manuscript map. Drawn by JHK Johnson.

Wembury Future development of Wembury

Parish, January 1969

Memorandum to Parochial Church Council assessing likely effects of imminent

building.

Wembury Plymouth expansion efforts Press cutting.

Wembury Notes on Wembury Compilation assembled by Maude Clay, July 1923. Great detail on Wembury and Wembury House.

Wembury Embroidered Wembury Badge Artefact. View of church / beach / Mewstone. Purpose unknown. Attractive.

Wembury Wembury Surgery Early years.

Wembury Silver Jubilee celebrations, 1977 Programmes.

Wembury Wembury history notes Typescript.

Wembury Wembury residents Press cuttings.

Wembury Placename derivations Letter, 1980.

Wembury Devon Subsidy Rolls, 1524-27 Wembury Parish data.

Wembury Wembury Manors Various documents, 1086, 1332, 1517. Alfelmestone (Traine) Manor, 1986 – 1939.

Wembury Wembury and Plympton Priory Transcript of complaint.

Wembury Devon Muster Roll (Wembury), 1569 List of men mustered to bear arms.

Wembury Devon Protestation Returns, 1641

(Wembury)

List of those faithful to the new C of E.

Wembury Hearth Tax, 1674 (Wembury) List of those taxed and amounts.

Wembury Historic Highways Monuments Undated, but subsequent to introduction of postcodes. Listing undertaken in response to a Devon-wide survey. Not the same as listed buildings.

Wembury Listed buildings, 1991 Offprint from statutory list of the time.

Wembury Listed Buildings, 2012 and 2016 Compiled from Historic England website.

Wembury Staddon Defences Ancient Monument Download from Historic England website, 2015.

Wembury Recollections of Wembury, by Arthur C

Clamp

Booklet; large number of photos, some text.

Wembury Footpaths map Large manuscript plan.

Wembury Footpath map Printed, but pre-dates coloured versions. 2 copies.

Wembury Footpaths' history Letter

Wembury Footpath Guide sales, 1981 Letter.

Wembury Wembury: its bay, church and parish A history by Montague Evans.

Wembury Preservation Appeal: church fields and

beach

Mid- to late-1930s appeal to avoid development. Photocopies include appeal

leaflet, financial summary September 1938, and photocopies of photographs.

Wembury Arrival of natural gas, Autumn 1991 Press cuttings.

Wembury Staddiscombe Development Proposal Papers concerning Amenity Society's opposition to development abutting Wembury, 1996.

Wembury at War 1804 barracks near Wembury Church Also mention of a redoubt.

Wembury at War Home Guard: register of hours of

attendance, Nov 1943 - Aug 1944

2 copies

Wembury at War Ministry of Food, Priority Certificate,

Silver Jubilee HallWembury at War War Memorial Hall, official opening

programmeWembury at War Loss of home in air raid

Wembury at War Pte Sydney Oliver POW experiences; WWI copy of letter from George V.

Wembury at War Wembury Social Club: wartime

activitiesWembury at War Anti-aircraft and sea-defence batteries,

WWII

Articles with photos.

Wembury at War World War II ‘bunker’ Subject was in fact control room for decoy fires, New Barton Farm.

Wembury at War Bombing reference, WWII In letter concerning Roper’s Field.

Wembury at War Wembury War Dead, 1914-18 and 1939-

45

Comprehensive and substantial listing; with text and pictures. Prepared by

Robert Rowland.

Wembury at War Certificates of Honour from

Commonwealth War Graves

Commission of those of Wembury

Parish who gave their lives in 1914 -

1918 and 1939 - 1945

In fact is substantially more than ‘Certificates of Honour’. Considerable

correspondence with families.

Wembury at War POW Kunze Martin re employment at

New Barton

H R Franklin to adjutant 122 German PW Working Camp Hatch End 27 Jan 1948.

Wembury at War Staddon: submarine mine observation

station

Listed building entry, Historic England website.

Wembury at War Down Thomas anti-aircraft battery

Wembury at War Land use, 1942 Copied from the Plan for Plymouth

Wembury Bay WI,

no box currently

held

Papers for this WI branch are still with the branch; those wishing to use them

should contact either the branch Secretary or President.

Wembury Beach See also Places box

Wembury Beach Shipwrecks and drownings

Wembury Beach Whale on the beach

Wembury Beach Horse riding on beach Letter, RA Stansell to NT.

Wembury Beach Wembury Church and Mill Copies of paintings and drawings.

Wembury Beach Newspaper cuttings

Wembury Beach Archaeology - Wembury burnt pits

report, 2003Wembury Beach Photographs: Wembury Beach and

cliffs looking westwards towards St

Werburgh's

Colour, but undated.

Wembury Beach Wembury Marine Conservation, 1981-

85Wembury Dock

SchemeWembury Dock Scheme: press cuttings Includes A3 copy of sketch of the scheme.

Wembury Dock

SchemeWembury Docks Scheme of 1909

File compiled by Peter Broughton as he researched the scheme. Donated

by his widow to the society. A great deal of valuable material. See also:

the 2nd edition of Peter Broughton’s book on the scheme. This is on CD

and also on the website (as a download). Wembury Dock

Scheme Wembury Dock

Extract from Gill, C (1997) Plymouth river: a history of Laira and the

Cattewater, Devon Books. Includes a good copy of the artist's

impressionof the scheme. Wembury House

and Thorn

Wembury House Estate farming Press cutting.

Wembury House

and Thorn

Wembury House photograph, 1900 Original. Dated.

Wembury House

and Thorn

Wembury House decorative urns Press cutting.

Wembury House

and Thorn

Wembury House photographs, 1990s Originals. Donated by Richard Thorpe.

Wembury House

and Thorn

Wembury House garden photographs,

1956

Originals, copies and text.

Wembury House

and Thorn

Wembury House and surrounding area Sketch map (Robert Guyver).

Wembury House

and Thorn

Wembury House sale catalogue, 1923 Original

Wembury House

and Thorn

The Drews in Wembury, 1947-55 Wide-ranging memories with Wembury House link.

Wembury House

and Thorn

Wembury House by Maude Clay Extensive memories with typewritten transcript. Includes disc copy.

Wembury House

and Thorn

Letter re: the Barings and Montefiores Notes from Richard Thorpe.

Wembury House

and Thorn

Thorn House history Notes by Peter Lugar. Magazine offprint. Also an item on Thorn fishpond.

Wembury House

and Thorn

Thorn Estate sale catalogue Photocopy. Mid-1930s. No map.

Wembury House

and Thorn

Thorn Cottages sale catalogue, late

1970s

Original.

Wembury House

and Thorn

Baring’s Wembury Estate PRO reference number.

Wembury House

and Thorn

Casualty details: Robert Sebag-

Montefiore

Commonwealth War Graves Commission document.

Wembury House

and Thorn

Thorn Path in winter Photo undated.

Wembury House

and Thorn

Sir Warwick Hele, will, 1625 Photocopy of typescript.

Wembury House

and Thorn

A Guide to the Garden of Thorn, by

Robin Blythe-Lord

Detailed booklet; photos; undated.

Wembury House

and Thorn

Re Sir Edward Thornton of Wembury

House

Marian Taplin of Collimore House, Down Thomas, to Rev Terry Freeman.

Wembury Local

History Society

This substantial collection of papers is

currently being archived. Wembury Point

and the Mewstone

Development plan, 1930s Various papers. Includes an original copy of the map.

Wembury Point

and the Mewstone

Archaeological and Historic Landscape

Survey of Wembury Point and the

Mewstone, 2006

Author N Berry. Consultancy report prepared in connection with the National

Trust's rehabilitation plans for the Point. THIS IS A KEY DOCUMENT BECAUSE OF

ITS BREADTH AND DETAIL AND SHOULD BE KEPT AS REFERENCE MATERIAL.

Wembury Point

and the Mewstone Wembury Point Holiday Camps Exhibition material prepared for National Trust exhibition, 2009.

Wembury Point

and the Mewstone Great Forsyte Field Chapter 11 of Swan Song, by John Galsworthy.

Wembury Point

and the Mewstone Wembury Point deedsOriginal deeds relating to parts of the Point and Heybrook Bay. Includes

hand-drawn maps. Full of legal jargon and abbreviations.

Wembury Point

and the Mewstone Prince's Cottages building plots Brochures.

Wembury Point

and the Mewstone

Wembury Point Holiday Camps Patches and the Heybrook Bay Lido.

Wembury Point

and the Mewstone

Wembury Point National Trust

purchase, 2005

See also Amenity Society papers.

Wembury Point

and the Mewstone

Press cuttings

Wembury Point

and the Mewstone

HMS Cambridge Photos and letters re gunnery school.

Wembury Point

and the Mewstone

HMS Cambridge History of gunnery school.

Wembury Point

and the Mewstone

Radar facility planing application, 1993 Includes application and Wembury Amenity Society papers on the topic.

Wembury Point

and the Mewstone

HMS Cambridge aerial photo, 1994 Press cutting.

Wembury Point

and the Mewstone

Mewstone history Press cutting

Wembury Point

and the Mewstone

Mewstone folder 1 Includes letters and press cuttings. Also a good reproduction of JMW Turner's painting The Mew Stone at the Entrance to Plymouth Sound.

Wembury Point

and the Mewstone

Mewstone folder 2 Peter Lugar's annotated photos. Also press cutting reproductions.

Wembury Point

and the Mewstone

Mewstone folder 3 The cottage on the

Mewstone

Mainly re: the cottage, but also various Mewstone history pages. KEY

DOCUMENT: letter from English Heritage confirming that the entire Mewstone is

Listed at Grade II in the Register of Parks and Gardens (as part of the curtilage of

Langdon Court). SEE ALSO Mewstone folder 4 AND Langdon & the Calmdys box,

folder Register of Parks and Gardens, Langdon Hotel, Devon.

Wembury Point

and the Mewstone

Mewstone folder 4 Documentation relating to the attempted listing of the cottage on the Mewstone.

Wembury School Wembury School, 1926 Photograph and list of pupils' names.

Wembury School Wembury Primary School new

building opening ceremony programme

Wembury School Wembury Primary School Press cuttings.

Wembury School Wembury Primary School quiz papers Participants and results.

Wembury School Sale of old School House Agent's leaflet.

Wembury WI

(afternoon group)

Scrapbook 1992-1995 Mainly photographs

Wembury WI

(afternoon group)

Box 1

Scrapbook 1972-1973 Mainly photographs

Wembury WI

(afternoon group)

Box 1

Scrapbook 1987-1092 Mainly photographs

Wembury WI

(afternoon group)

Box 1

Scrapbook 1995-1997 Mainly photographs

Wembury WI

(afternoon group)

Box 1

Scrapbook 1997-1998 Mainly photographs

Wembury WI

(afternoon group)

Box 1

Scrapbook 1998-199 Mainly photographs

Wembury WI

(afternoon group)

Box 1

Scrapbook early 70s - 1995 Very few photos, some undated.

Wembury WI

(afternoon group)

Box 1

Loose photographs 1958-2000 Includes names of founding members.

Wembury WI

(afternoon group)

Box 1

Photograph, December 1971 WI quiz, county final. Eileen Arnold, Mrs Baker, Mrs Gray.

Wembury WI

(afternoon group)

Box 2

Attendance registers November 1990 - October 1995

Wembury WI

(afternoon group)

Box 2

Minute books of meetings and Yealm

Group meetings

April 1985 - December 2001; Yealm Group 1985 - 1989

Wembury WI

(afternoon group)

Box 2

Reports of meetings for local press and

Wembury Review

December 1996 - September 1999.

Wembury WI

(afternoon group)

Box 2

Red book containing press cuttings of

reports of meetings from local press

and Wembury Review

October 1992 - December 1999.

Wembury WI

(Afternoon

Group)Box 2

WI Group Meeting, October 1993 Press cutting

Wembury WI

(afternoon group)

Box 2

Loose press cuttings December 1994 - January 2001.

Wembury WI

(afternoon group)

Box 2

Yealm Group meetings; competitions 1999 - 2000.

Wembury WI

(afternoon group)

Box 2

Blue folder Membership cards.

WemburyWI

(afternoon group)

Box 2

Posters advertising meetings 1998 -2001

Wembury WI

(afternoon group)

Box 3

Chiefly accounts, reports and minutes.

Wembury WI

(afternoon group)

Box 4

Poems by Ruby Midwinter and

Gwyneth D Futer

Members in 1990s.

Wembury WI

(afternoon group)

Box 4

Letter from Caan Thomas to Ruth

Wood

Thanking the branch for commissioning the President's pendant (badge in letter).

Wembury WI

(afternoon group)

Box 4

Millenium Map Details.

Wembury WI

(afternoon group)

Box 4

Millenium Time Capsule List of contents.

Wembury WI

(afternoon group)

Box 4

Wembury WI china Details of china ordered.

Wembury WI

(afternoon group)

Box 4

Speakers' details 1998 Mike Perriam, Dave German.

Wembury WI

(afternoon group)

Box 4

National Federation of WI Coat of Arms Press article, May 1989.

Wembury WI

(afternoon group)

Box 4

List of Wembury WI archives deposited

at Plymouth and West Devon Record

Office

Deposited September 1997.

Wembury WI

(afternoon group)

Box 4

Wembury WI 50th birthday concert

programme

2007

Wembury WI

(afternoon group)

Box 4

Correspondence betweenPhyllis Guy

and Anthony Steen, MP.

Re: adult education, 1991.

Wembury WI

(afternoon group)

Box 4

Jumble sales 1995 and 1998.

Wembury WI

(afternoon group)

Box 4

Wembury newsletters Formation of Wembury WI, 1957.

Wembury WI

(afternoon group)

Box 4

WI Devon News 1st edition, June 1951.

Wembury WI

(afternoon group)

Box 4

National Federation Annual Report 1990, 75th anniversary.

Wembury WI

(afternoon group)

Box 4

Correspondence, Eileen Arnold 1972 - 1998, mainly re being a speaker.

Wembury WI

(afternoon group)

Box 4

Royal School of Needlework Coronation Exhibition booklet, 1953.

Wembury WI

(afternoon group)

Box 4

WI National Federation Jubilee Book 1965, Golden Jubilee.

Wembury WI

(afternoon group)

Box 4

Devon Federation Jubilee Banner Handing over banners, July 22nd, 1995.

Wembury WI

(afternoon group)

Box 4

Wembury WI drama group Misc. programmes, tickets.

Wembury WI

(afternoon group)

Box 4

Denman College blue folder 1958 souvenir booklet, brochure 1973, programme 1995-96, course details 1970s.

Wembury WI

(afternoon group)

Box 4

Devon Federation WI pink folder Trip to Brussels 1999, County reference book giving lists of speakers including Eileen Arnold, Countryside Link, later Environment and Agriculture Bulletin, 1970-

80, wildlife studies, 1973, woodland survey 1975, WI Council meeting October

1975.