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Summary

Former toll house, now a modernised and extended bungalow. It was used as a Methodist Chapel in the late 19th-early 20th century.

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SS62SE/11
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SS62SE/13
• Old SAM Ref: SS62SE6
• Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division: SS62SE6

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• TOLL HOUSE (XVIII to XXI - 1751 AD to 2009 AD)
• METHODIST CHAPEL (XIX to Early 20th Century - 1880 AD to 1925 AD)

Full description

South West Heritage Trust, 1838-1848, Digitised Tithe Maps and Transcribed Apportionments (Cartographic). SDV359954.

Rectangular building shown in the centre of the road junction. Recorded as Turnpike House (Plot2292), on the Chittlehampton Tithe Map, owned by the South Molton Turnpike Trust.

Ordnance Survey, 1880-1899, First Edition Ordnance Survey 25 inch map (Cartographic). SDV336179.

Building marked as a Methodist Chapel (Primitive). Map object based on this source.

Ordnance Survey, 1904 - 1906, Second Edition Ordnance Survey 25 inch Map (Cartographic). SDV325644.

'Bible Christian Chapel' shown.

Andrews, J. H. B., 1960, The Parish of Satterleigh and Warkleigh, 48 (Article in Serial). SDV78211.

The congregation of the parish of Satterleigh met in the old toll house built in 1840 at Meethe Gate, just over the border in Chittlehampton parish. It was used as a Methodist Chapel until 1925, when a new chapel was built.

Thorne, R., 1975, The Last Bible Christians. Their Church in Devon in 1907, 69 (Article in Serial). SDV15286.

Meethe. Chapel, roadside. Opened 1880's (rented) and closed in 1925. New chapel built on new site. Now a house.

Kanefsky, J., 1976, Devon Tollhouses, 241 (Monograph). SDV7980.

There is a heavily modernised single storey toll house on the south-east corner of the junction of the South Molton-King's Nympton road with the road to George Nympton.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1978, SS62SE6 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV69373.

Modernised single story tollhouse (citing Kanefsky 1976).

Kanefsky, J., 1984, Devon Toll Houses, 24 (Pamphlet). SDV349663.

On the B3226 South Molton to King's Nympton road, three miles south-west of South Molton, a heavily modernised single-storey building on the south-east corner of the junction with the road to Georgenympton.

Rosevear, A., 2008, Devon Tollhouses (Un-published). SDV351734.

A 19th century toll house on the B3226 at Meethe Gate.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments: none recorded

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events: none recorded

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