Local History Society Archive Catalogue Version 28.9.2016

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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; ; Smithy; Wembury; Wembury at War; Wembury Beach; Wembury House and Thorn; Wembury Dock Scheme; Wembury Point and the Mewstone; Wembury WI (afternoon group).

Box Wallet Contents Almshouses Box 1 Minutes and Correspondence Almshouses Box2 Rent books and general correspondence Almshouses Box 3 1954 - 1999, minus a few years. Also Treasurer's Ledger, Jan 1976 - Dec Accounts 1993. Almshouses Box 4 Plans and surveys See Extensive list in box. Amenity Society Society formation; proposed Box 1 constitution Amenity Society First Minute book, Feb 1974 - Dec 1987 Condition: charred! Survived a house fire. Box 1 Amenity Society Minute notebooks, 1977 - 1979, 1980 Box 1 Amenity Society Plymouth & West Record Office Box 1 receipt for Minutes Oct 1993 - March 2003 Amenity Society Committee Minutes, March 1989 - Box 1 April 2000 Amenity Society Committee Minutes, July 2000 - May Box 1 2013 Amenity Society AGM Minutes, 1982, 85, 86, 88, 89 & 2004 missing Box 1 1993 - 2013 Amenity Society Treasurers' reports, 1979 - 81, 89, 90, Also receipts for footpath guide and nature booklet. Box 1 95, 96,98, 2002, 03 Amenity Society Membership lists, 1990 & 2004/5 Box 1 Amenity Society Village Hall newsletters, 1956 - 59 & Box 2 1962 Amenity Society Amenity Society newsletters, 1975 - Box 2 1989 Amenity Society Amenity Scoiety newsletters, 1993 - Box 2 2003 & 2006 - 2008 Amenity Society Planning applications, May 1998 - Dec Box 2 2003 Amenity Society Planning applications, Jan 2004 - Sept Box 2 2005 Amenity Society Planning: local iasssues Box 2 Amenity Society Planning general papers Box2 AmenitySociety Box Community Action Award, 2000 2 Amenity Society Local Plan maps Box 3 Amenity Society Wembury maps Box 3 Amenity Society Footpath Guide Box 3 Amenity Society HMS Cambridge radar Mast proposal Box 3 Amenity Society Photographs, HMS Cambridge, 1999 Box 3 Amenity Society Wembury Point / HMS Cambridge sale See also items in the Wembury Point and Mewstone box. Box 3 Wembury Amenity Wembury Amenity Society and the Amenity Society Chair's statement re NT purchase of the Point. Society purchase of Wembury Point Amenity Society Bovisand Chalets sale Box 3 Amenity Society Church Wood Estate sale Box 3 Amenity Society Proposed listed buildings Box 3 Amenity Society Marine Conservation Area and Yealm Box 3 Estuary Amenity Society Devon Conservation Forum Box 3 Amenity Society South Hams Amenity Societies Box 3 Amenity Society AONB miscellaneous Box 3 Amenity Society Countryside Box 3 Amenity Society Highways Box 3 Amenity Society Nature Trail booklets Box 3 Amenity Society South Hams plans; Countryside Commission, village design, managing Box 4 Official Official reports public access; National Trust Open Countryside, Access Review; Devon reports 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 Carnival Statement of accounts, 1974 - 1993 Carnival Programmes Carnival Headed paper, posters, tickets and certificates Carnival Carnival papers, 1978 - 1987 Census Data Chiefly 19th century; only 1991 in 20th. Mainly very general, but some Census abstracts 1841 - 1991 specifics on Langdon. Census Data Data on all individuals, by address. Presumably transcribed from 1881 census enumerators’ lists. Church Box 1 WLHS record of graves & memorial WLHS record produced by Michael Arnold and Peter Williams. Revised and plaques Volumes 1 and 2 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 1926 appeal to parishioners churchyard extension 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 Various editions the Romantic Story of Wembury Church. A short history of publications 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, Letters relating to missing deeds. 1929 Church Box 4 Diamond Jubilee Communion service, Order of Service. 2012 Church Box 4 St Wergurgh's Flower Festival, 2014 Brochure.

Church Box 4 Lockyer Festival Thanksgiving Service, Includes account of Edmund Lockyer's role in Western Australia. See also 1979 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 Notes and photographs by Peter Lugar. and Paten 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, Circular. 1959 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 War memorial decision Heybrook Bay

Down Thomas and Holiday Camps: the Heybrook Bay Lido History Society has high-resolution jpgs of many of the photographs. Heybrook Bay and the Patches - early photographs and notes Down Thomas and Lark's Rise, Down Thomas Heybrook Bay

Down Thomas and Star Garage and the Newton Family Includes material on early bus services. Heybrook Bay

Down Thomas and Reminiscences of Heybrook Bay By Jill Smith Heybrook Bay

Down Thomas and Heybrook Bay: Photographs, plus Heybrook Bay annotated notes

Down Thomas and Petrol station application Press cutting Heybrook Bay

Down Thomas and Silver Jubille Hall History Papers and old photographs from opening (1935) onwards. Heybrook Bay

Down Thomas and Deeds, 7, Furzebrook Road, Heybrook Heybrook Bay Bay

Down Thomas and Down Thomas - failed housing Papers assembled during planning appeal process, Heybrook Bay development application

Down Thomas and Papers for this WI branch are still with the branch; those wishing to use them Heybrook Bay WI, should contact either the branch Secretary or President. no box currently held. Families Black ring-binder Family Tree - List of Wembury mariners 1619; Wingstone Manor Farm sale Galsworthy 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 Colour photos of portraits of earl and family Mount Edgcumbe 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, Copy without maps. For maps, see Langdon box. 1927 Farms & Farming Langdon 1927 sale: prices obtained and farms details Farms & Farming Langdon Court Estate sale catalogue, Catalogue produced to sell remainder of estate. 1929 Farms & Farming New Barton Farm Letter re: German POW worker, 1948 Farms and farming National Trust purchase of Old and Press cuttings, 1996. New Barton Farms Garden Society Accounts, 1958-9; Annual Show, programme, 1977; Annual programme, 1975-6 Garden 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 Archiving still in progress Agendas and minutes; planning; correspondence, etc. Residents' Association Langdon & the The Calmady Pictures Ring file of paintings by the Calmady sisters. Prepared by Peter Lugar. Calmadys Langdon & the Langdon Court History Ring file of articles, photographs and drawings. Calmadys Langdon & the Register of Parks & Gardens - Langdon This is an extremely detailed and important document. Calmadys Court Hotel, Devon Langdon & the Langdon Court Estate, South Devon, Original document and maps. Annotated. Calmadys sale catalogue (1927) Langdon & the Langdon Estate Sale, 1927, prices paid. M/s transcription from annotated catalogue. Calmadys Langdon & the Wembury Bay and Knighton, sale Original (delicate) copy of the 2nd sale catalogue. Photocopy in the Farms Calmadys catalogue, 1929 and Farming box. Langdon & the Langdon ownership chronology Manuscript (undated but quite recent). Calmadys Langdon & the Langdon Hall, Devonshire, 1829 Photocopy. Calmadys Langdon & the Tree planting at Langdon Account of restoration, 2007, by Wembury Amenity Society and Wembury Calmadys Local History Society. Langdon & the Circular issued by Laura Calmady Evidence of family conflict. Calmadys Langdon & the Letter re: Langdon Court Modern, written by Richard Thorpe. Calmadys Langdon & the Hydraulic ram operation Relevant because rams were used on Langdon Estate. See 1927 sale map Calmadys at bottom of Pump Hill. Langdon & the Poetic description of Langdon, 1715 M/s copy. Calmadys Langdon & the Vincent Calmady, licence to pillage Photocopy and transcript. Calmadys Plympton Priory Langdon & the Sir Shilstone Calmady, will, 1641 Copy of typed transcript. Calmadys Langdon & the Donation of land for Poor House by Transcript, whereabouts of original unknown. Calmadys Charles Biggs Calmady Langdon & the Langdon court press cuttings Calmadys Langdon & the Features at Langdon listed in the'At Press cutting. Also covers other parishes. Calmadys Risk' register, 2003 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 Typescript. Author Peter Forbes (Veasy Park resident) . Also, a separate set in Plymouth and West Devon, 1870- of 4 maps of Steer Point brickworks. 1939 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' Letter from Richard Thorpe, 12.6.2003. safe Miscellaneous Looe Island Offprint from 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. One Hundred Years of Wembury Parish Brochure of extracts from Minutes. Parish Council Council, 1895-1995 Silver Jubilee Appeal and Celebrations, Working papers and souvenir programme. Parish Council 1977 Places Almshouses: Sir Warwick Hele will, Typed transcript. 1625 Places Almshouse renovation, 1956 Brief mention in parish magazine. Places Almshouses renovation, 1975 Press cutting. Places Almshouses: Extract from the Devon Photocopy of manuscript. See also Listed building document in this County Monuments Register 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. 1999 Churchwood Valley Proposed sale Agent's brochure. Places 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. Possible leat remains in Church Fields Letter with map, sent to Devon Archaeology Service, 1.3.2001. Places 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. Roper's Field clearance and 8 photographs of volunteers. Places rehabilitation, 1999 Places Bovisand Lodge Estate brochure Places Diving Centre Diving activities at Bovisand Places Bovisand 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. Staddon Heights Defences Ancient Download from Historic website, 2015. Little known, but of exceptional Places Monument importance; of national and international significance. Cliff Road: attempt to control Places pedestrian access Places Jubilee Inn Places Knighton Lost village of South Wembury Suggestions, with photographs, relating to a possible lost village. By John Mills? Places Bovisand - once a fort, now an Booklet by Arthur L Clamp. Undated. Places underwater centre Wembury Church, Mill Farm, Mill Photo, 1909? Enhanced print by David Pinder from glass plate negative owned by Places Meadow and Mill Mrs Kath Pursley. Places Cliff Road Early development after Langdon Estate break-up, 1927 onwards. Places The Mewstone: various accounts Places River Yealm Letter from South West Water Authority. Places Wembury Bay and the Yealm Photocopy (1 page). Unknown source. Places Wembury Mills Display material. Wembury Wood Letter, John Bodenham to Mike Arnold, plus copy of Wembury Wood page from Places Langdon 1927 sale catalogue. Places Wheal Emily Mine Descriptions, 1922 and 1974. Places Hollacombe Wood Woodland Trust material. Bovisand Lodge and the Breakwater Text and pictures donated by Rita Hart (owner, 2015). Places Places Knighton Hill development Papers relating to proposed development, post-2010. Reaching the Heights - one hundred 2004. In addition to the history of the club, contains important material relating years of Staddon Heights Golf Club to the Staddon Heights Military Landscape (Wembury's Ancient Monument - of Places national and international significance). Places Wrecks near Wembury Mill Entries copied from Gullett family Bible. Papers relating to Knighton Papers collected by Tony Romang Places development Plans of Laburnum Drive development Places 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 See list in file compiled by Eileen Arnold. Plymouth 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 University of Plymouth symposium 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, NT Yealm and Avon Area Newsletter. 2000 Wembury Robert Guyver file, 1985 Wide-ranging topics assembled from various sources. Wembury Wembury documents deposited in the Lists from 1611 onwards. Plymouth and West Devon Record Office 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 Memorandum to Parochial Church Council assessing likely effects of imminent Parish, January 1969 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 List of those faithful to the new C of E. (Wembury) 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 Booklet; large number of photos, some text. Clamp 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 Mid- to late-1930s appeal to avoid development. Photocopies include appeal beach 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 2 copies attendance, Nov 1943 - Aug 1944 Wembury at War Ministry of Food, Priority Certificate, Silver Jubilee Hall Wembury at War War Memorial Hall, official opening programme Wembury 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 activities Wembury at War Anti-aircraft and sea-defence batteries, Articles with photos. WWII 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-Comprehensive and substantial listing; with text and pictures. Prepared by 45 Robert Rowland. Wembury at War Certificates of Honour from In fact is substantially more than ‘Certificates of Honour’. Considerable Commonwealth War Graves correspondence with families. Commission of those of Wembury Parish who gave their lives in 1914 - 1918 and 1939 - 1945 Wembury at War POW Kunze Martin re employment at H R Franklin to adjutant 122 German PW Working Camp Hatch End 27 Jan 1948. New Barton Wembury at War Staddon: submarine mine observation Listed building entry, Historic England website. station Wembury at War Down Thomas anti-aircraft battery

Wembury at War Land use, 1942 Copied from the Plan for Plymouth Wembury Bay WI, Papers for this WI branch are still with the branch; those wishing to use them no box currently should contact either the branch Secretary or President. held 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, 2003 Wembury Beach Photographs: Wembury Beach and Colour, but undated. cliffs looking westwards towards St Werburgh's Wembury Beach Wembury Marine Conservation, 1981- 85 Wembury Dock Wembury Dock Scheme: press cuttings Includes A3 copy of sketch of the scheme. Scheme Wembury Dock File compiled by Peter Broughton as he researched the scheme. Donated Scheme by his widow to the society. A great deal of valuable material. See also: Wembury Docks Scheme of 1909 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 Extract from Gill, C (1997) Plymouth river: a history of Laira and the Scheme Wembury Dock Cattewater, Devon Books. Includes a good copy of the artist's impressionof the scheme. Wembury House Wembury House Estate farming Press cutting. and Thorn Wembury House Wembury House photograph, 1900 Original. Dated. and Thorn Wembury House Wembury House decorative urns Press cutting. and Thorn Wembury House Wembury House photographs, 1990s Originals. Donated by Richard Thorpe. and Thorn Wembury House Wembury House garden photographs, Originals, copies and text. and Thorn 1956 Wembury House Wembury House and surrounding area Sketch map (Robert Guyver). and Thorn Wembury House Wembury House sale catalogue, 1923 Original and Thorn Wembury House The Drews in Wembury, 1947-55 Wide-ranging memories with Wembury House link. and Thorn Wembury House Wembury House by Maude Clay Extensive memories with typewritten transcript. Includes disc copy. and Thorn Wembury House Letter re: the Barings and Montefiores Notes from Richard Thorpe. and Thorn Wembury House Thorn House history Notes by Peter Lugar. Magazine offprint. Also an item on Thorn fishpond. and Thorn Wembury House Thorn Estate sale catalogue Photocopy. Mid-1930s. No map. and Thorn Wembury House Thorn Cottages sale catalogue, late Original. and Thorn 1970s Wembury House Baring’s Wembury Estate PRO reference number. and Thorn Wembury House Casualty details: Robert Sebag- Commonwealth War Graves Commission document. and Thorn Montefiore Wembury House Thorn Path in winter Photo undated. and Thorn Wembury House Sir Warwick Hele, will, 1625 Photocopy of typescript. and Thorn Wembury House A Guide to the Garden of Thorn, by Detailed booklet; photos; undated. and Thorn Robin Blythe-Lord Wembury House Re Sir Edward Thornton of Wembury Marian Taplin of Collimore House, Down Thomas, to Rev Terry Freeman. and Thorn House Wembury Local This substantial collection of papers is History Society currently being archived. Wembury Point Development plan, 1930s Various papers. Includes an original copy of the map. and the Mewstone

Wembury Point Archaeological and Historic Landscape Author N Berry. Consultancy report prepared in connection with the National and the Mewstone Survey of Wembury Point and the Trust's rehabilitation plans for the Point. THIS IS A KEY DOCUMENT BECAUSE OF Mewstone, 2006 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 Original deeds relating to parts of the Point and Heybrook Bay. Includes and the Mewstone Wembury Point deeds hand-drawn maps. Full of legal jargon and abbreviations. Wembury Point and the Mewstone Prince's Cottages building plots Brochures.

Wembury Point Wembury Point Holiday Camps Patches and the Heybrook Bay Lido. and the Mewstone

Wembury Point Wembury Point National Trust See also Amenity Society papers. and the Mewstone purchase, 2005

Wembury Point Press cuttings and the Mewstone

Wembury Point HMS Cambridge Photos and letters re gunnery school. and the Mewstone

Wembury Point HMS Cambridge History of gunnery school. and the Mewstone

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

Wembury Point HMS Cambridge aerial photo, 1994 Press cutting. and the Mewstone

Wembury Point Mewstone history Press cutting and the Mewstone

Wembury Point Mewstone folder 1 Includes letters and press cuttings. Also a good reproduction of JMW Turner's and the Mewstone painting The Mew Stone at the Entrance to . Wembury Point Mewstone folder 2 Peter Lugar's annotated photos. Also press cutting reproductions. and the Mewstone

Wembury Point Mewstone folder 3 The cottage on the Mainly re: the cottage, but also various Mewstone history pages. KEY and the Mewstone Mewstone 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 Mewstone folder 4 Documentation relating to the attempted listing of the cottage on the Mewstone. and 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 Scrapbook 1992-1995 Mainly photographs (afternoon group) Wembury WI Scrapbook 1972-1973 Mainly photographs (afternoon group) Box 1 Wembury WI Scrapbook 1987-1092 Mainly photographs (afternoon group) Box 1 Wembury WI Scrapbook 1995-1997 Mainly photographs (afternoon group) Box 1 Wembury WI Scrapbook 1997-1998 Mainly photographs (afternoon group) Box 1 Wembury WI Scrapbook 1998-199 Mainly photographs (afternoon group) Box 1 Wembury WI Scrapbook early 70s - 1995 Very few photos, some undated. (afternoon group) Box 1 Wembury WI Loose photographs 1958-2000 Includes names of founding members. (afternoon group) Box 1 Wembury WI Photograph, December 1971 WI quiz, county final. Eileen Arnold, Mrs Baker, Mrs Gray. (afternoon group) Box 1 Wembury WI Attendance registers November 1990 - October 1995 (afternoon group) Box 2 Wembury WI Minute books of meetings and Yealm April 1985 - December 2001; Yealm Group 1985 - 1989 (afternoon group) Group meetings Box 2 Wembury WI Reports of meetings for local press and December 1996 - September 1999. (afternoon group) Wembury Review Box 2 Wembury WI Red book containing press cuttings of October 1992 - December 1999. (afternoon group) reports of meetings from local press Box 2 and Wembury Review

Wembury WI WI Group Meeting, October 1993 Press cutting (Afternoon Group)Box 2 Wembury WI Loose press cuttings December 1994 - January 2001. (afternoon group) Box 2 Wembury WI Yealm Group meetings; competitions 1999 - 2000. (afternoon group) Box 2 Wembury WI Blue folder Membership cards. (afternoon group) Box 2 WemburyWI Posters advertising meetings 1998 -2001 (afternoon group) Box 2 Wembury WI Chiefly accounts, reports and minutes. (afternoon group) Box 3 Wembury WI Poems by Ruby Midwinter and Members in 1990s. (afternoon group) Gwyneth D Futer Box 4 Wembury WI Letter from Caan Thomas to Ruth Thanking the branch for commissioning the President's pendant (badge in letter). (afternoon group) Wood Box 4 Wembury WI Millenium Map Details. (afternoon group) Box 4 Wembury WI Millenium Time Capsule List of contents. (afternoon group) Box 4 Wembury WI Wembury WI china Details of china ordered. (afternoon group) Box 4 Wembury WI Speakers' details 1998 Mike Perriam, Dave German. (afternoon group) Box 4 Wembury WI National Federation of WI Coat of Arms Press article, May 1989. (afternoon group) Box 4 Wembury WI List of Wembury WI archives deposited Deposited September 1997. (afternoon group) at Plymouth and West Devon Record Box 4 Office Wembury WI Wembury WI 50th birthday concert 2007 (afternoon group) programme Box 4 Wembury WI Correspondence betweenPhyllis Guy Re: adult education, 1991. (afternoon group) and Anthony Steen, MP. Box 4 Wembury WI Jumble sales 1995 and 1998. (afternoon group) Box 4 Wembury WI Wembury newsletters Formation of Wembury WI, 1957. (afternoon group) Box 4 Wembury WI WI Devon News 1st edition, June 1951. (afternoon group) Box 4 Wembury WI National Federation Annual Report 1990, 75th anniversary. (afternoon group) Box 4 Wembury WI Correspondence, Eileen Arnold 1972 - 1998, mainly re being a speaker. (afternoon group) Box 4 Wembury WI Royal School of Needlework Coronation Exhibition booklet, 1953. (afternoon group) Box 4 Wembury WI WI National Federation Jubilee Book 1965, Golden Jubilee. (afternoon group) Box 4 Wembury WI Devon Federation Jubilee Banner Handing over banners, July 22nd, 1995. (afternoon group) Box 4 Wembury WI Wembury WI drama group Misc. programmes, tickets. (afternoon group) Box 4 Wembury WI Denman College blue folder 1958 souvenir booklet, brochure 1973, programme 1995-96, course details (afternoon group) 1970s. Box 4 Wembury WI Devon Federation WI pink folder Trip to Brussels 1999, County reference book giving lists of speakers including (afternoon group) Eileen Arnold, Countryside Link, later Environment and Agriculture Bulletin, 1970- Box 4 80, wildlife studies, 1973, woodland survey 1975, WI Council meeting October 1975.