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Devonshire- Princetown • biRECTORY.) DEVONSHIRE- PRINCETOWN. 627 • - • taining- one bell : the church was built and fitted. to~ acres ; the prison itself comprises five rectangular build- gether with the parsonage house'- by French prisoners, ings, each 300 feet long by so broad, and .residences and is used by the officers of the neighbouring prison for the governor, deputy-governor and officers: the and surrounding inhabitants: the interior was restored principal gateway is formed of huge granite blocks, by the Rev. Morris Joseph Fuller M.A. rector and bearing the carved inscription " Parcere Subjectis.'' cbaplai:J! 1867-79; the church was again restored in Considerable addition was made -to the buildings by the 1908, when a new vestry and organ chamber were added convicts in 1874, and further extensions have since been at a cost of £1,457: a stained east window was pre­ made. Burrator reservoir at Sheep!ltor is four miles senied in 1910 by the Nation Society of United States distant. The Duchy hotel stands at a height of Daughters of 1812. There e 250 sittings. The about 1,4oo feet above the sea-level. H.R.H. the Duke register dates f;r~m the year- I 07. The living is a of Cornwall and York K.G. is the principal landowner_ vicarage, with the chapels of St. Gabriel, Post Bridge, The $oil is a light peaty; subsoil, granite. The chief and l:;t. Raphael, Huccaby, annexed, net yearly value crops are oats and turnips. This quarter of the moor £280, in the gift of H.R.H. the Duke of Cornwall K.G. contains 49,509 acres. In the census of 19II there were and held since 1919 by the Re.v. Henry Robert Cooke induded in the Lydfard population 250 officials and their M.C., B.A. of Queens' College, Cambridge. The Wes­ families artd 1,121 prisoners in the prison. leyan chapel is a stone bl;lilding seating 230. Parish Clerk, J ames "\V aycott. ' . - DARTMOOR, extending about 28 miles from north to POST BRIDGE is a hamlet of Lydford~ 6 miles north- south and 26 miles from east to west, is, on the aveTage, east from Princetown, with a small mission chapel dedi­ 1,200 feet above the sea-level, and rises to 2,000 feet in cated to St. Gabrilll, and used during the week as a several of its highest peaks, called "tors.'' being crags of ::'lational day school. A parsonage house was erected grey granite, in fantastic shapes, on the crests of the during IgDI-3. A cemetery of half an acre was formed , brown moorland. The action of the disintegration of this here in 1903 at .a. cost of £70, and is under the co{l't'rol granite is seen by heaps of loose stones, some of enormo~ of the Lydford Parish Council. The East Dart river is size, lying scattered at the feet of the tors. On the moor crossed here by a. very ancient bridge of two arches; are ranges of tor.s, while the aspect of the land about it w constructed in a primitive fashion of granite slabs changes from peat bogs and patches of wild gras~ or fern, and is still in use, and close by is an ancient clapper around the water springs, to slopes of gorse and heather bridge. where the rising ground is dry ; in parts are ilarge pieces Public Elementary School (mixed), erected in 186g, for pf moist peat, with pools of water stained a deep roo children; Miss F. J ackson, mistress brown, which, however, quickly drain away. Some of these pools are the sources of rivers and streams DARTMEET is another hamlet, 6 miles oost from of .Worth, South and West Devon; the Taw and the Prineetown, and has also a -'!mall mission chapel, used Ockment, a tributary of the Torridge, flow north ward during the week a.s a National d-ay school. to the Bristol Channel ; the Teign and the Dart flow Public Elementary School (mixed), erected in 1868; to the south-east, reaching the sea above and below Miss Gaunter, mh.tress Torba.y ; the Plym flowing to the east of Plymouth, Post, M. 0. & T. & Telephonic Express Delivery Office, and the Tavy del!cends to join the Tamar, on the bordel' · Princetown (letters should have pevon added).~ of Cornwall at Bere Ferrers, issuing into Plymouth Sound. Waiter Edward Tooker, postmaster In general, the upper moorland, except whe[e broken by Post, M. 0. & T. Office, Post Bridge. George French, the tors, has a grey and wild appearance'.there are no trees sub-postmaster. Letters arrive through Princetown growing in the open pari{s; but Wi!•tman's Wood, a small Wall Letter Boxes.-Huccaby; Post Bridge; Two portion of a once extensive fOTest, in the rocky ravine of Bridges & near prison the West Dart, is a natural curiosity, as the dwarf oaks, Dartmoor Prison, Major Edwd. Revell Reade, governor; forcing themselves through boulders, have their twisted Ernest lJasler Helby M.R.C.S.Eng., L.R.C.P.Lond." branches thickly clothed with mo¥ and lichen : the North ll.P.H.R.O.P.S.Eng. medicfl.l officer; Eric George and South Teign, .on the eastern border of Dartmoor, Battiscombe M.R.C.S.Eng., L.R.C.P.Lond. deputy present more beauty of scenery. Dartmoor is covered medical officer; J. Wells, steward; Seth Weekes. with Druidica.l and prehistoric remains of much interest. farm bailiff and primitive bridges of stone cross the several streams. Public Elementary School, erected in 1872, & enlarged Dartmoor convict prison, built in r.8o6, at a cost of in r885, for 330 children; W. H. Brown, master; £127,ooo, consists of 8Jl' extensive series of buildings Miss Laura James, infants' mistress constructed principally of granite ffibm the neighbouring Police Station, Samuel Weeks, constable moor: the outer wall incloses an area of nbout 30 Railway Station, Henry Cowling, station master RESIDENTS AT DARTMOOR PRISON. Bowden Weddicombe, butcher Hurn ~rthur~ assistant agent fer the Battiscombe Eric George. M.R.C.S. Gaunter Albert, farmer, Bexworthy Duchy of Cornwall, South Hessary Eng., L.R.C.P.Lond. (deputy medi­ Oaunter Francis Henry, farmer, Leaman Wm. frmr.Little Sherberton cal officer) Batchelor's hall Lloyds Bank Limited (sub-branch t() Helby Ernest Hasler M.R.C.S.Eng., Gaunter Henry A. E. (Mrs.), lodging Tavistock) (open wednesdays, 10.30 L.R:O.P.Lond., D.P.H.R.C.P.S.Eng. house, Dartmeet to 12.30); draw on London head (medical officer) Chudley James, farmer, Swinecombe office, "JI Lombard street E 0 3 Reade Major Edwd. Revell (governor) Coaker Edward, farmsr, Pizwell Lord Archibald, grocer. T N 5 Wells J ames (steward) Coaker George, farmer, Spaders Lord Herbert, coffee rooms Coaker Richard, farmer, Peatcot Masonic :t>odge (Benevolence, No.666). PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Coak.er Richard, fanner, Runnage (Harry 'Halfyard, sec) Bridges Col. Francis D., R.M.L.l. Coaker Richard, farmer, Sherbert;.on Mortimore Stanley, farmer, Orockern Tor gate Coaker William, farmer, Nunscross Rook Frank, farmer, Blackbrim. Bridges Thomas C. Moor 1odge, Two Cole Jane (Miss), Forest inn, Hex- Rowe Aaron, Duchy hotel (T A.. Bridges · · worthy "Duchy, Princetown ;" T N 2); Collinssplatt Mrs. Alice Collingwood Cooper Thomas, farmer, Blackbrook annexe, Duchy house Hope, Brimpts mead, Dartmeet Cornish Samuel, stone. mason Rowse Mattht>w, apanments, Beech- Cooke Rev. Henry Robert M.C., B.A. Crocker Jessie Louisa (Mrs.), Plume wood, Post Bridg-e (vicar), The Vicarage of Feathers P .H Sa:tnpson Thomas Henry, butcher Cross Harold, Dartmeet . Dawe John, farmer, Post Bridge Sleep Silas S. farmer, Post Bridge Crowther Rev. J oseph (W e~eyan Dillon Arthur, farmer, Moorlands Smith Brothers, farmers, Hexworthy Methodist), Plymouth villa Duchy of Cornwall, estate office, Smith W. H. & Son, news agents French George J.P. Post Bridge South Hessary Smith Harriett (Mrs.), farmer, Holman J oseph, Dartmeet Endacott Louisa Ann (Mrs.), apart.- Powder mill ..... Hum Arthur, South Hes(ary ments, Post Bridge • Smith John, farmer,' Round hill Joll Capt. H. H.,R. .A.. lluccaby house Fineh Robert, fruiterer Stephens George, fanner, Bull park May Colin M. E. The Cot.Hexworthy French Elizabeth (Mrs.), farmer, Trinaman Aimee (Mrs.), Two Bridges W allace Mrs. Pixies Bolt,. Dartmeet Bear Down lodge hotel, Two Bridges. 't N 6 Prince- • French George, farmer, Post Bridge town _ CO!lGIERCJ AT,, French Geo. jun. farmer, Hart1and Tuckett. Wm.Crmr.Dunnabridge pound Bailey John,fa.rmer, Higher Merripitt French John,farmer,Middle Merripitt Warne Solomon, temperance hotel, Ball Richard Arthur, baker Grey ~ary F.mily (Mrs.), Railway htl Pol!t Bridge Bickle William T. farztfer, Bear Down Balfyard Joh114 builder Warne Wm. apartments, Post J!ridge Bolt Albert (Mn.), grocer. T N 4 Hamlyn William, farmer, Teign head W eekes Seth, farm bailifi to Dart- Bowden Elizabeth (Mrs.), refre8h- Hext Thos.Warren Ho.P.H.PostBrdge moor prison ment rooms He:xworthy Tin Mining Co. Limited Westlake William. Henry, boot maker .
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