CHUDLEIGH IN ROBSON'S DIRECTORY OF 1839 |
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Fore Street, Chudleigh - busy even on a winter Sunday The Clifford Arms from which all coaches departed is the tall white building on the left - still with its old signboard depicting a stage coach. © Richard J. Brine |
Chudleigh is a market town, near the River Teign, 9½ miles South from Exeter, containing 2278 inhabitants (according to the census of 1831). The annual value of assessed property in 1815 was £8988. The houses are principally disposed in one long street, at the western extremity of which is the church; it is dedicated to St. Martin.
NOBILITY & GENTRY Broad, Mrs. Burrington, Rev. Gilbert, Vicar Chichester, Arthur, Esq. Clifford, Lord, Ugbrooke Cuming, Rev.Joseph, Curate Evans, Captain, RN Kerr, Captain B Mills, Captain, Folleigh House Parker, Montague Edward Esq. Powney, Captain, Orasava Cottage
PROFESSIONAL AND COMMERCIAL Adams, Thomas, plumber & tinplate worker Ash, Thomas, Exeter Inn Ash, William M, ironmonger Avant, William, shopkeeper Babidge, Charles, boot & shoemaker Bailey, George, plasterer Baxter, Luke, shopkeeper Bibbens, the Misses, Ladies' Seminary Brown E & Co, linen drapers Brown, William, surgeon Burnett, Benjamin, coal & general merchant Buttress, John, plumber & tinplate worker Carpenter, W. H, veterinary surgeon Cleave, Joseph, hairdresser Cleave, Thomas, ironmonger & cabinet maker Cleave, William, harness maker Cleave, William, saddler & harness maker Copperstone, Samuel, baker Cottle, John, cooper & baker Dadd, Richard, shopkeeper Davis, George, blacksmith & wheelwright Day, F. N, surgeon Edwards, William, Plymouth Inn Flood, George, Academy Gibbs, Joseph, tailor & shopkeeper Goodridge, S, dressmaker Gourd, John, blacksmith Harvey, John, physician Hayes, John, cooper Hole, John, Globe Inn Honeywill, William, shopkeeper Humphreys, Richard, shopkeeper Joag, Elijah, stonemason Jones, Mary, china & glass dealer Lambell, Thomas, butcher Langley, Charles, solicitor, Magistrate's Clerk, Insurance Agent Latham Thomas, shoemaker Lear, Thomas, butcher Lendon, Sarah, shopkeeper Lodge, John, shopkeeper Longman, Charles, Ship Inn Luscombe, John, painter & glazier Martin, Thomas, tailor Matthews, Francis, baker Mortimore, George, shoemaker Perry, J, wheelwright Petherick, Elizabeth, draper & grocer Petherick, J, Clifford Arms Inn & posting house Pitt, Henry, shopleeper Prowese, Elizabeth, grocer Prowse, George, tailor Rogers, John, veterinary surgeon Rolestone, George, shoemaker Rolestone, William, shoemaker Salter, John, White Hart Salter, Samuel, shopkeeper Scott, William, solicitor Searle, E, shopkeeper Searle, James, printer & stationer, fire & life Insurance agent Sills, J, beer retailer Southwood, William, butcher Strowbridge, George, King's Arms Tapp, John, cooper Truman, Charles, saddler & harness maker Truman, John, shopkeeper Truman, John, tailor Truman, Stephen, butcher Whiteway,Samuel, miller Whiteway, Walter, surveyor, Registrar, fire & life insurance agent Wills, John, Lion Inn Winser, Isaac, builder Yard & Brown, surgeons Young, Arthur, chemist & druggist
POST OFFICE: Petherick, John, Post Master Letters received from London ¾ past 12 noon, despatched to London, ¼ past 12 noon. Letters forwarded for Bath and North of England at ¾ past 9 in the evening, received every afternoon at ½ past 4. COACHES To Bath and Bristol. Royal Mail from Clifford Arms Inn, ½past 9pm, returns ½past 4 pm to Plymouth via Totnes. To Bristol: The Nonpareil from Clifford Arms Inn, every morning, Sundays excepted, at ½past 11, returns evening at 5. To Exeter: Coach from Clifford Arms Inn, Mondays, Wednesdays and Friday Mornings at 10, returns same evening at 7 to Torquay. To Exeter, Mail from Clifford Arms Inn, daily at ½past 12, returns every evening at 8 to Totnes. To London: Royal Mail from Clifford Arms Inn, ½past 12pm, returns ¾ past 12pm to Plymouth To London: Subscription from Clifford Arms Inn daily at ½past 1pm, returns daily at 1pm to Plymouth via Totnes. To London: The Vivid from Clifford Arms Inn daily at 5pm, returns ½ past 10am to Plymouth through Ashburton. CARRIERS To Exeter & Plymouth: Brice & Co. daily To Exeter, Plymouth, Devonport &c. Carriers to and from pass through Chudleigh daily. |
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31 July, 2009
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