Our Next Zoom Talk :
7.30 pm Tuesday 16th May by Abi Gray
Sandwell Manor
.Since 2006 the Devon Rural Archive's archaeological team has been researching and reporting on the history, significance and development of Devon's manor houses and their landscapes. In identifying sites to study, the team makes use of a remarkable map of the county, published in 1765 by Benjamin Donn and from whom the project takes its name. For the modern historian the map is essential to understanding the social and economic geography of the county during the mid-eighteenth century, owing to its depiction of more than 650 "gentry seats". Sandwell Manor, in the parish of Harberton, is one of the high-status properties recorded on Devon's map. The present structure is of late Georgian construction, with some mid to late Victorian alterations, but it is on the site of a much earlier dwelling. In this illustrated talk Abi will discuss Project Donn and the changes at Sandwell Manor and oits environs from prehistory to the present day.
preceeded at 7.00 pm by the AGM
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The Harberton and Harbertonford History Society encourages the study of the local history of Harberton Parish and the surrounding County.
There are approximately 5 meetings with speakers each year and at least one field excursion. Meetings take place in Harberton or Harbertonford on alternative dates, or via Zoom sessions - details of which can be found in the Programme.
Members of the Society have gathered information on the past history of the villages, personalities and the Parish including the preparation of historic walks around both Harberton and Harbertonford. The Society is making collections of photographs and some artefacts and have embarked on an oral history project to build an archive of first hand histories in both villages.
Subjects covered in previous meetings have included:-
The History of Harbertonford Mill Pilotage on the River Dart
The Construction of the Avon Dam Victorian Crime in Totnes
Tuckenhay Paper Mill Church Houses in Devon
Vagrants and Travellers in 17 Century Harberton
The Trist Family of Harberton
Field Trips have included visits to:
Finch's Foundry at Sticklepath
Grimspound and Bellever Neolithic Sites, both accompanied by an
Archaeologist from Dartmoor National Park
Membership is open to anybody interested in local history and is £12 per year with talks free to Members. Non members are welcome to meetings at the cost of £3 per meeting.
The Society is keen to receive photographs/articles/family records for the archives which can also be added to our website.
Please contact our secretary Jill Powell - jill.powell-redlion@outlook.com
We are affilliated to The Devon History Society - see links page
Chairmen:--
Derek Robinson in Harbertonford 01803 732442
Stanley Oldfield in Harberton 01803 864654
Harberton & Harbertonford
History Society
