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Things New and Old Item 9: The Contents of the Parish Chest
This is the ninth item from Robert Dymond’s book: “Things New and Old Concerning the Parish of Widecombe-in-the-Moor and its Neighbourhood” (1876). THE CONTENTS OF THE WIDECOMBE PARISH CHEST The contents of the old carved oaken chests so frequently to be foundin the vestries of our parish churches are generally interesting, and often afford curious
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Things New and Old Item 10: Dartmeet – a Poem
This is the tenth item from Robert Dymond’s book: “Things New and Old Concerning the Parish of Widecombe-in-the-Moor and its Neighbourhood” (1876). DART-MEET From the Visitors’ Book at T. French’s Cottage. A maiden fair from the West came down, Clad in a dress of the brightest brown ; ’Twas trimmed all o’er with a silv’ry
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Things New and Old Item 27: Bazaar at the Bath Saloon, Torquay
This is the twenty-seventh item from Robert Dymond’s book: “Things New and Old Concerning the Parish of Widecombe-in-the-Moor and its Neighbourhood” (1876) BAZAAR AT THE BATH SALOON, TORQUAY [From the “Torquay Directory” of April 7th, 1875.] THE Bazaar in aid of the funds for restoring the parish church ofWidecombe-in-the-Moor, which took place, as announced, at
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Things New and Old Item 11: Archery at Widecombe
This is the eleventh item from Robert Dymond’s book: “Things New and Old Concerning the Parish of Widecombe-in-the-Moor and its Neighbourhood” (1876). ARCHERY AT WIDECOMBE A short account of the ancient close of land called “ Butte Parks,” together with some observations upon Ancient and Modern Archery. BY indenture of feoffment, dated 19th January, II.
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Things New and Old Item 15: An Auld Wife’s Story
This is the fifteenth item from Robert Dymond’s book: “Things New and Old Concerning the Parish of Widecombe-in-the-Moor and its Neighbourhood” (1876) AN AULD WIFE’S STORY. DEAR MR. EDITOR, There are certain phrases current amongst you “ up-country folk,” which have little application to us who dwell within this region of Granite Tors. I allude
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Things New and Old Item 18: A Poem on Widecombe-in-the-Moor by Jonas Coaker
This is the eighteenth item from Robert Dymond’s book: “Things New and Old Concerning the Parish of Widecombe-in-the-Moor and its Neighbourhood” (1876) A POEM ON WIDECOMBE-IN-THE-MOOR. BY JONAS COAKER, THE DARTMOOR POET. And now romantic Widecombe Shall be the subject of my rhyme, It seems there is abundant room To speak upon it at this
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Artefact Hunt
Some of these artefacts are shown here as picture clues to help you explore for them and also to try to work out what they are. In this context ‘artefact’ means something that is man-made and is lying in the landscape either in use or not, in its original location or not. If we think
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Artefact Hunt More Details
This page contains more details for the artefact hunt that you can find Here. So, if you have arrived here directly, e.g. via a search engine, then please go to the original hunt page first. You can go to an individual section of the hunt by choosing from the list below: Section 1: In the
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Local History Topics One
We have started to record items large or small related to any topic of historical, local or recent interest, mainly about the history of the parish. Some of those items are listed here. If you have any comments or further information about any of these topics then please do Send us an email. The Thunderstorm
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Local History Topics Three
Old Village Sign This is the view towards Wayside taken, we believe, before the sign was erected. This is what the sign originally looked like in 1922 (right) when it was unveiled (picture from the Widecombe Archive – also found in Stephen Wood’s book on Widecombe.) This is a good early side-view of the sign.