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Wembury Heritage Database Wembury Heritage Database This database lists buildings, other structures and localities • Areas outlined in GREEN show the original boundaries of considered to be of heritage significance in Wembury Parish. It is the fields described in the database as they are shown on the based on work undertaken in 2006-7 by Martin Dyer of Exeter Tithe Map or, in a few cases, in the Calmady Atlas of Archaeology, assisted locally by Eileen Arnold (the Chair of 1788/89. Wembury Local history Society), assisted by two Society members - Sue Johnston and June Horne. The number of entries listed – more • BROWN features on the maps denote banks or ditches than 300 – underlines the richness of the parish’s history. identified on the 1946 RAF air photographic survey. The information is provided here in Word format, converted into an It must be stressed that inclusion in the database does NOT Adobe pdf file. This is therefore searchable for key words of your indicate that any specific site is accessible to the public, although choosing, using the Adobe search facility. many are accessible from roads and public footpaths or bridleways. Locating the entries geographically Columns 4 and 5 of the table below give the grid reference of each Database key entry, enabling the sites to be located on today’s OS 1:25,000 or The key below briefly explains the meaning of each column heading 1:50,000 maps of Wembury. Alternatively, a set of plans can be in the database. downloaded from Wembury Local History Society’s website. On these plans: Other information Appendix 1 outlines the background to the project, while Appendix • The geographical location of each item is shown on the maps 2 describes the data-gathering process. as a RED NUMBER. 1 Key to Parish Database and Maps Columns include the following information: Site No. Devon 1827; MILLES = Dean Milles’ Questionnaire c. 1750; AP = Reference number allocated to sites identified by parish survey and Aerial photograph; PEVSNER = Cherry & Pevsner: Buildings of located on base maps. Devon; PND = Gover, Mawer & Stenton: The Place-Names of Devon; SURVEY = Life into Landscape parish surveys 2004-2007; Site Type FW = Fieldwalking during parish survey Type of site taken from Devon Historic Environment Record or English Heritage lists of monument types. PRN Primary Record Number i.e. the primary reference number for a site GSI/Easting/Northing in the Devon Historic Environment Record. This system has National Grid Reference. replaced SMR UID (below) as the main reference for sites. Description SMR UID Summary description of site. Sites and Monuments Record Unique Identifier i.e. the old reference number for a site in the Sites and Monuments Record (now the Period Devon Historic Environment Record). The reference is based on the Date of site using Devon Historic Environment Record broad number of the Ordnance Survey 1:10560 or 1:10000 map sheet on periods and periods where known. Broad periods are: Prehistoric; which the site is located e.g. SX74SE/25. Now replaced by the PRN. Roman (43-410AD); Early Medieval (410-1066AD); Medieval (1066-1540); Post-Medieval (1540-1901); Modern (1901-); SM No./LB No. Multiperiod; Unknown. N.B. XIX = century in Roman numerals. Scheduled Monument Number or Listed Building Number. N.B. Listed Building Numbers in database are those used by English Source Heritage. South Hams District Council use different numbers with Source of information used in description. SMR/HER = Devon LB prefix. Historic Environment Record; LB = Listed Building; TM/TA = Tithe Map/Tithe Apportionment; OSSD = Ordnance Survey Surveyor’s Drawing; OS 1:10560 = Ordnance Survey 1:10560 (6 inch) map etc.; DONN = Benjamin Donn’s map of Devon 1765; Continued overleaf GREENWOOD = C. & J. Greenwoods’ Map of the County of 2 Listed Civil Parish Listed Building grade (Grade I, Grade II* or Grade II). Name of civil parish. Ecclesiastical Parish Name of ecclesiastical (i.e. historic) parish. 3 Site No Site Type GSI Easti Northi Description Period Source PRN SMR SM Listed Eccl Civil ng ng UID No/LB Parish Parish No WM Coin SX 502 482 Roman coin of Trajan, AD98- Roman HER 1728 SX54 Wemb Wemb 001 117, minted at Selucia Pieria in NW/1 ury ury Syria. Found at Wembury Point. WM Coin SX 49 48 Roman coins found at Roman HER 12625 SX44 Wemb Wemb 002 Heybrook Bay, Wembury, ci rca NE/1 ury ury 1927. WM Bombing SX 4985 4995 Cropmarks of large rectilinear Moder HER 12626 SX44 Wemb Wemb 003 Decoy buildings visible on 1946 RAF n NE/2 ury ury air photograph. Site on a spur just to W of Down Thomas. Site visited 1993, no evidence of buildings visible on ground. WM Battery SX 4949 4894 Renney Battery. Coastal Moder HER, 13723 SX44 45755 Grade Wemb Wemb 004 battery, built in 1905-06 to n LB NE/3 7 II ury ury operate in conjunction with Penlee Point Battery. Covered eastern approaches to Plymouth Sound whilst western approac hes covered by Penlee Point. Original armament three 9.2" guns, progressively modernised until removal in 1957. Concrete. Three emplacements, each with rails to gun mountings and steps to sunken magazine entrances. Iron doors and fittings. Noted as having complete interior 4 Site No Site Type GSI Easti Northi Description Period Source PRN SMR SM Listed Eccl Civil ng ng UID No/LB Parish Parish No with some original machinery including ammunition hoists. Blast protection walls built in 1941 still in place. Battery shared accommodation and stores with Lentney Battery (WM 005). WM Battery SX 4931 4938 Lentney Battery. Coastal Moder HER, 39300 SX44 10053 Grade Wemb Wemb 005 battery, built 1905 to cover n LB NE/4 6 II ury ury eastern approaches to Plymouth Sound, along with Renney Battery (WM 004). Concrete emplacements each with rails to gun mountings and steps to sunk magazine entrances. Iron door and fittings. Noted as having complete interior with some original machinery including ammunition hoists. Guns dismounted after WW1, battery rearmed 1941 and remained in use for training until 1956 when guns removed. Site visited 1991: undergroun d magazines, and shelters and storerooms between or behind emplacements. Complete shell and cartridge hoists survive, 5 Site No Site Type GSI Easti Northi Description Period Source PRN SMR SM Listed Eccl Civil ng ng UID No/LB Parish Parish No along with other internal fittings. WM Blockhou SX 4941 4906 Large twelve-sided pillbox of Moder HER 39382 SX44 Wemb Wemb 006 se local design. One of three built n NE/3/ ury ury around perimeter of Renney 1 Battery in 1914. Site visited 1991: original steel door observed, some steel shutters in interior. Firing slits, square ports for machine guns. Earth embanked around site. S hown on 1963 OS 1:2500 map. WM Military SX 49 49 Elizabethan defensive Post- HER 42625 SX44 Wemb Wemb 007 Earthwor earthworks between Bovisand Medie NE/5 ury ury ks and River Yealm. Shown on val, plans of 1587 and 1588. Built by XVI order of Privy Council in 1587 to pr otect Plymouth Sound. Plymouth Receiver's Accounts for 1585-89 show expenditure on bulwarks and occasionally dykes, ditches and gun platforms. Construction appears to have been of rubble, earth, lime and sand with quantities of timber. WM Blockhou SX 4942 4894 Site of blockhouse, one of three Moder HER 43573 SX44 Wemb Wemb 008 se built around perimeter of n NE/3/ ury ury 6 Site No Site Type GSI Easti Northi Description Period Source PRN SMR SM Listed Eccl Civil ng ng UID No/LB Parish Parish No Renney Battery in 1914 (WM 2 006, WM 009). Site visited 1991: demolished, probably in 1980s. All three sites shown on 1963 OS 1:250 0 map along with connecting fence. WM Blockhou SX 4957 4895 Site of blockhouse, one of three Moder HER 43574 SX44 Wemb Wemb 009 se built around perimeter of n NE/3/ ury ury Renney Battery in 1941 (WM 3 006, WM 008). Site visited 1991: demolished, probably in 1980s, although part of NE wall seen to be surviving. All three sites shown on 1963 OS 1:2500 map along with connecting fence and WW2 command post adjoining this site to S. WM Gun SX 4957 4892 Semi-circular platform with Moder HER 43575 SX44 Wemb Wemb 010 Emplace masonry and concrete retaining n NE/3/ ury ury ment walls at front (S) and rear. 4 Rear wall with ammunition cupboards, stairwell entrance to W. Probable site of one of two anti-aircraft guns installed in 1943 to protect Renney Battery (WM 004). Shown on 1963 OS 1:2500 map. WM Gun SX 4939 4903 Small circular earthwork Moder HER 43576 SX44 Wemb Wemb 011 Emplace terrace. Probable site of one of n NE/3/ ury ury 7 Site No Site Type GSI Easti Northi Description Period Source PRN SMR SM Listed Eccl Civil ng ng UID No/LB Parish Parish No ment two anti-aircraft guns installed 5 in 1943 to protect Renney Battery (WM 004). WM Military SX 4957 4894 Site of WW2 Battery Moder HER 43577 SX44 Wemb Wemb 012 Building Command Post for Renney n NE/3/ ury ury Battery (WM 004) from 1941, 6 originally officers' watch shelter. Site visited 1991: demolished, probably in 1980s, although part of NE wall se en to be surviving. Site adjoined WW1 blockhouse to N. Both sites shown on 1963 OS 1:2500 map. WW Military SX 4956 4896 Site of Battery Observation Moder HER 43578 SX44 Wemb Wemb 013 Building Post, WW1 and WW2, for n NE/3/ ury ury Renney Battery (WM 004). 7 Visited 1991: demolished, probably in 1980s.
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