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| HER Number: | MDV121776 |
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| Name: | Woolcombers Shop on Church Street, South Brent |
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Summary
No longer extant, this was one of a row of cottages originally fronting onto the road at the western end of Church Street. Demolished in the 1960s.
Location
| Grid Reference: | SX 697 601 |
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| Map Sheet: | SX66SE |
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| Admin Area | Dartmoor National Park |
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| Civil Parish | South Brent |
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| District | South Hams |
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| Ecclesiastical Parish | SOUTH BRENT |
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Protected Status: none recorded
Other References/Statuses: none recorded
Monument Type(s) and Dates
- WOOLCOMBERS SHOP (Constructed, XVIII to XIX - 1800 AD to 1843 AD (Between))
Full description
South West Heritage Trust, 1838-1848, Digitised Tithe Maps and Transcribed Apportionments (Cartographic). SDV359954.
Plot 3003; ‘Dwelling House and combing shop’, owner John Elliott, occupier John Horswell.
Ordnance Survey, 1904 - 1906, Second Edition Ordnance Survey 25 inch Map (Cartographic). SDV325644.
Structure still depicted on the early 20th century historic map.
Robinson, R., 1977-1979, South Brent Parish Checklist Worksheets, page 803-4 of 821 (Worksheet). SDV340722.
SX69716017 Woolcombers Shop west side of Church Street
The 1843 Tithe Apportionment records a house and combing shop at this location (see source). John Elliott was the Lord of the Manor. John Horswell is listed as ‘Woolcomber’ in White’s Directory of 1850 but no subsequent ones. The building has been demolished within living memory (post 1940)
The Apportionment entry is particularly interesting in view of the fact that South Brent is known to have been a centre for serge manufacture. This necessitated a supply of chained warps of worsted yarn produced by hand combing. The industry run by John Horswell would seem to have been a semi-industrialised rather than a cottage process; the serge was woven in cloth mills and it is suggested that ‘Town Mill’ may have been the site; Lysons writing in 1822 says ‘The secondary manufacturing towns of the present day are Totnes, Tavistock … and South Brent.’
Robinson also includes details from a search of the parish registers for woolcombers; a fairly common occupation in the early 19th century; the earliest reference dates to 1775 (see wiorksheet).
Wall, G., 2005, The Book of South Brent. Another Portrait of a Dartmoor Community, 58-9, 117, photographs (Monograph). SDV360849.
Images of the end of Church Street from the 19th and 20th centuries, including one from around the time of the demolition in the 1960s.
Sources / Further Reading
| SDV325644 | Cartographic: Ordnance Survey. 1904 - 1906. Second Edition Ordnance Survey 25 inch Map. Second Edition Ordnance Survey 25 inch Map. Map (Digital). [Mapped feature: #111151 ] |
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| SDV340722 | Worksheet: Robinson, R.. 1977-1979. South Brent Parish Checklist Worksheets. South Brent Parish Checklist. Worksheet. page 803-4 of 821. |
| SDV359954 | Cartographic: South West Heritage Trust. 1838-1848. Digitised Tithe Maps and Transcribed Apportionments. Tithe Map and Apportionment. Digital. |
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| SDV360849 | Monograph: Wall, G.. 2005. The Book of South Brent. Another Portrait of a Dartmoor Community. The Book of South Brent. Another Portrait of a Dartmoor Community. Hardback Volume. 58-9, 117, photographs. |
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Associated Monuments
| MDV121783 | Part of: Cottages at the west end of Church Street, South Brent (Building) |
Associated Finds: none recorded
Associated Events: none recorded
| Date Last Edited: | Apr 6 2018 12:12PM |
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