Budleigh - Research - Fairlynch Museum

Place Court by AW Parsons RA (1847 - 1920)

research

We welcome enquiries from researchers and our volunteers will be glad to help wherever possible. Please use the contact form for an initial enquiry.

At Fairlynch we hold a lot of reference material relating to Budleigh Salterton and surrounding villages in the Lower Otter Valley. The Fairlynch Resource Centre contains books, maps and original documents. An appointment is necessary to view this material. The Local History Room PC holds copies of various local lists and maps that you can walk in and consult during our normal opening hours. Some maps are available to buy as copies through our shop.

The Fairlynch Resource Centre

A comprehensive collection of books, maps, printed material and ephemera relating to the local area. Access is by prior arrangement only by email, letter or via the website.

CHARGEs

We operate a written research service for which we ask a minimum donation of £10, which is non-refundable.
House History. To research the history of your house, the charges are as follows: £15 per page (A4) of research in 12 point Arial text. Relevant photographs and documentation would be included free of charge. The document would be sent by email in PDF format.
For an additional £40 we offer a hard-backed bound version printed on archival paper.
We ask that you enclose a cheque with your enquiry, made payable to 'Budleigh Salterton Arts Centre and Museum' if applying by post or you can pay by BACS to the account 30-94-36 No 37768360
Due to the work and time involved, this donation is required in advance, regardless of the result.

If you are enquiring by post please send to:
Head of Research
Fairlynch Museum and Arts Centre
27 Fore Street
Budleigh Salterton
Devon EX9 6NP

Please note that we are not always able to supply the information requested.
We will contact you should we find that additional charges may be incurred with an estimation of what that is likely to be.

Photographic/Scanning Services:	One side of page or Image
Photocopying	£1.00
Scanning photographs for email	£2.50
Printing high definition image on photo paper	£5.00

Please note that a charge of £5.00 is made for the use of a camera or phone to take images from the files in the Local History Room.

Local History Room Online Research
Digitised Resources - Turn up and Log on

Here is a list of digitized documents you can refer to in the Local History room at the Fairlynch Museum. They are arranged in date order by parish. There is no need to make an appointment to view these records on our computer during our normal opening hours and if you require hard copies they can be supplied for a small charge, details of which are on display in the Local History Room.

Aylesbeare

Tithe Map and Apportionment

Bicton

1581 Lay Subsidy Roll
1723 Oaths of Allegiance
1841 Census
1891 Census
St Mary’s Church records
1844 Tithe Map & Apportionment

Budleigh Salterton

St Peter’s Cemetery memorial inscriptions
Tithe Map & Apportionment (see East Budleigh)

Bystock Manor

Colaton Raleigh

1332 Lay Subsidy Roll
1524 Lay Subsidy Roll
1581 Lay Subsidy Roll
1723 Oaths of Allegiance
1781 Land Tax
18th century Freeholders
1841 Census
Tithe Map & Apportionment

Colaton Raleigh Dotton

Some Millers of Dotton
Tithe Map & Apportionment

East Budleigh

1332 Lay Subsidy Roll
!524 Lay Subsidy Roll
1569 Muster Roll
1581 Lay Subsidy Roll
1733-1799 Freeholders
1891 Census (incl. BudleighSalterton)
All Saints’ Church Memorial Inscriptions
Tithe Map, Digitised
Tithe Map & Apportionment (inc.BudleighSalterton)

Harpford

1332 Lay Subsidy Roll
1566 ‘A General Survey of Harpford’
1581 Lay Subsidy Roll
1723 Oaths of Allegiance
1841 Census
Tithe Map & Apportionment

Otterton

1332 Lay Subsidy Roll
1552 Tax in Otterton
1569 Muster Roll
1581 Lay Subsidy Roll
1641 Lay Subsidy Roll
1723 Oaths of Allegiance
1768 Churchwardens
1781 Land Tax Assessment
1779 Manorial Survey
18th century Freeholders and Leaseholders
1835 Rentals
1846 Village Houses
1846 Leaseholders
1900 Electoral Roll
Tithe Map & Apportionment

The Duke of Buckingham

The Duke of Buckingham’s Survey of Mariners & Ships

ARCHITECT Hatchard-Smith

Architectural drawings of local houses built by this celebrated architect, HATCHARD-SMITH.

NOTES

Tithe Maps are very accurate records of land, buildings, and routes in each parish, compiled in the early 1840s.
Apportionment - these documents complement the tithe maps and give land ownership and occupier of each plot.
Lay Subsidy Rolls are records of early taxation.
Oaths of Allegiance were sworn to the King.

Other On-line Resources

You may also find these online resources useful:

OS 25 inch Maps

The National Library of Scotland have digitised and geo-referenced a great number of old maps. Obviously much of their work covers Scotland but they have many old Ordnance Survey maps covering England on their website, including the 25 inch England & Wales 1841 - 1952 Series, which are particularly useful for research purposes.

A notable feature is that old and new maps can be displayed side by side or a slider can be moved to change the level of transparency to display modern mapping beneath the old.

visit the website

OVApedia

Since 2011 the Otter Valley Association's OVApedia has been leading the way by setting new standards for online local history archives. It is easily accessible and open to all to search and to contribute.

The archive currently comprises over 160 individually researched articles covering a diverse range of subjects; including short biographies of interesting people who have lived here, glossaries of local place names, analyses of populations from censuses, early schooling in East Budleigh, the history of the Pebblebed Heaths, descriptions of the carved bench ends of All Saints’ Church in East Budleigh, Gilpin’s Grade I listed Bicton parkland, ship building in the Otter estuary in Tudor and Stuart times, smuggling, coastguards and even how to make a traditional withy crab pot.