Combe Martin in 1878-1879

Combe Martin in 1878-1879
…published before 1923 . William White (1879): History, Gazetteer and Directory of The County of Devon including the City of Exeter, and Comprising a General Survey of The Co…

Characters

Characters
…Corelli's The Mighty Atom, in the churchyard of St Peter ad Vincula at Combe Martin, North Devon: image. White, William: History, gazetteer and directory of the County of De…

Introduction to Combe Martin

Introduction to Combe Martin
…of a Combe Martin manor house and estate. In 1879, 19th-century historian and author William White reported that Combe Martin's market and fair were granted in the year 1264…

Churches

Churches
…Family. Exeter: William Pollard & Co. Ltd, 39 & 40 North Street. White, William: History, gazetteer and directory of the County of Devon including the City of E…

Combe Martin Shipbuilding (19th Century)

Combe Martin Shipbuilding (19th Century
…states that William Lewis, a carpenter and fisherman during the 1870s, is said to have built several boats beside Hele Bay beach, including one called the Saucy Lass. Photographs purport…

Home

Home
…seaside resort today, in 1850 the gazetteer William White called the remote village of Combmartin a 'decayed town'.  Clouds of smoke bellowed from Combe Martin's mines and c…

The Blackmore Country

The Blackmore Country
…bargained for half the profit. Each partner realised £10,000. The owner of the land, Richard Roberts, who happens to have been Westcote’s father-in-law, presented William Bourchier, Earl…

Combe Martin Landmarks

Combe Martin Landmarks
…folklore maintains the inn was built by Squire George Ley after his spectacular win at cards.  Formerly The King's Arms Family and Commercial Hotel until June 1933, this classic William…

Early Silver Mining in Combe Martin

Early Silver Mining in Combe Martin
, Amery and Brooking-Rowe: Vol. 1, 1901, p. 173). According to William White’s Directory of Devon (1878-1879), published in Sheffield by W. White:  In the reign of Edward I,…

Smuggling in North Devon

Smuggling in North Devon
, Henry Every, and William Kidd operated during the 17th and 18th-centuries. Such freebooters captured the public's imagination, and folklore has  exaggerated or invented details about th…

Combe Martin Industrial History

Combe Martin Industrial History
…about 3900 acres of land, including 1837 acres of open commons and hilly moorlands." GENUKI: Combe Martin, Devon (2023). The population of Combmartin put the land to good use. White stat…

Lime-burning and Quarrying

Lime-burning and Quarrying
. Teaching Corner: Explore Combe Martin’s Lime Industry Think Like a Historian Combe Martin’s industrial past is etched into its landscape. By studying how limestone was transformed into "white gold

Combe Martin History Blogs

Combe Martin History Blogs
…Antiquarian — symbolic of historical scholarship and archival writing. Black-and-white illustration of a man in period attire writing with a quill at a candlelit desk, surrounded by book…

Battle of Arx Cynwit (Countisbury) 878 CE

Battle of Arx Cynwit (Countisbury) 878 CE
.”  Landscape historian William G. Hoskins CBE FBA, in his influential and comprehensive study: A New Survey of England – Devon (1954), states that “the precise scene of the battle was th…