Cataloguing the Starcross Archive - Wednesday 16th May

Meet on Wednesday evening, 7.30pm at St. Paul's for a first attempt at sorting out a catalogued archive from the materials we have.

There are photographs and maps of the area. We will discuss other types of material we could collect.

Starcross Records in the Devon Rural Archive

When we visit the  Devon Rural Archive at Shilstone, we can warn them that we are coming and they'll make sure the Starcross records are ready for us: Here's a list of what they already have in their collection:

Historic maps
A number of maps covering the whole county such as the 1765 map by Benjamin Donn

image from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Donn

 and the 1827 map of the county by Greenwood and Greenwood.

Thankyou Devon County for this image of the Greenwood map

They also have complete Ordnance Survey coverage for 1887 and 1905.


Images
A handful of old black and white photographs showing Starcross. 



Local Information
A small publication about The Royal Western Counties Hospital.
References within more general texts relating to the area.


Articles

A couple of articles from the Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries / Devonshire Association Transactions

Benjamin Donn's map of Starcross 1765

This is from Donn's 1765 map of Devonshire. Scale: 1 inch to a mile.