Old Cornwall Society Archives

Bude Stratton & District Old Cornwall Society

Monuments & Stones

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Stones Collection
	Society.	Bude
	Image Ref.	Bude Sto 1.
	Position	Slate marker situated on the road between Diddies, Stratton and Cross Lanes, Launcells
	O.S.
	Detail	This also shows a Bench mark.
	Date
	Photo	Audrey E Aylmer
	Comments	Mark's the Boundary of the Urban District Council and the Rural District Council and also the Parish boundary of Stratton and Launcells.

Stones Collection
	Society.	Bude
	Image Ref.	Bude Sto 2.
	Position	Granite Drinking Trough now sited outside Kilkhampton School.
	O.S.
	Detail	This also shows a Bench mark.
	Date
	Photo's	E Burrows
	Comments	Notice giving details of the Drinking Trough.

Stones Collection
	Society.	Bude
	Image Ref.	Bude Sto 3.
	Position	Rebuilt stone hedge at Jacobstow reusing beach pebbles
	O.S.
	Detail	This also shows a Bench mark.
	Date
	Photo	Audrey E Aylmer
	Comments	Beach pebbles were frequently used in hedge-banks before restrictions were imposed prohibiting their removal from the beaches. Photo G Fry

Stones Collection
	Society.	Bude
	Image Ref.	Bude Sto 4.
	Position	Set into the wall of the former Bay Tree Hotel garden, situated at the bottom of Hospital Road, Stratton.
	O.S.
	Detail	This also shows a Bench mark.
	Date
	Photo	Audrey E Aylmer
	Comments	Stone commemorating the Coronation of King George the Fifth

Stones Collection
	Society.	Bude
	Image Ref.	Bude Sto 5.
	Position	Slate marker situated on the road between Diddies, Stratton and Cross Lanes, Launcells
	O.S.
	Detail	This also shows a Bench mark.
	Date
	Photo	Audrey E Aylmer
	Comments	Mark's the Boundary of the Urban District Council and the Rural District Council and also the Parish boundary of Stratton and Launcells.

Stones Collection
	Society.	Bude
	Image Ref.	Bude Sto 6.
	Position	Milestone on old road leaving Townsend, Stratton.
	O.S.
	Detail
	Date
	Photo	Audrey E Aylmer
	Comments	This was the main route before the new A39 bypass was made.

Stones Collection
	Society.	Bude
	Image Ref.	Bude Sto 7&8
	Position	Bude Marshes Nature Reserve.
	O.S.
	Detail	This also shows a Bench mark.
	Date
	Photo	L Opie
	Comments	Stone marking The Peter Truscott Bridge, ( Mr Peter Truscott (Bardic Name CARER CREASYON) at the ceremony to open the bridge named after him. . Peter was the instigator of the original Nature Reserve. He is wearing a jersey knitted by his wife Barbara using the traditional ‘Bude Ladder’ pattern.

Stones Collection
	Society.	Bude
	Image Ref.	Bude Sto 9.
	Position	County Stone outside the Union Inn, Union Hill, Stratton.
	O.S.
	Detail
	Date
	Photo by	G Fry
	Comments	This stone marks the County’s responsibility for maintaining the bridge over the River Strat.

Stones Collection
	Society.	Bude
	Image Ref.	Bude Sto 10.
	Position	Bude Marshes
	O.S.
	Detail
	Date
	Photo	Audrey E Aylmer
	Comments	County Stone (as No.9) for maintenance of Rodd’s Bridge over the River Neet on Bude Marshes.

Stones Collection
	Society.	Bude
	Image Ref.	Bude Sto 11.
	Position	Set into garden wall near The Lock Gates.
	O.S.
	Detail
	Date
	Photo	Audrey E Aylmer
	Comments	Mooring ring from the Canal.

Stones Collection
	Society.	Bude
	Image Ref.	Bude Sto 12.
	Position	Lower Wharf, Bude Canal.
	O.S.
	Detail
	Date
	Photo	Audrey E Aylmer
	Comments	Mooring stone, Lower Wharf, Bude Canal. Note worn ‘chain-marks’.

Stones Collection
	Society.	Bude
	Image Ref.	Bude Sto 13&14.
	Position	Pathfields footpath between Bude and Stratton.
	O.S.
	Detail
	Date
	Photo	Audrey E Aylmer
	Comments	23&24. ‘Millstone’ set beside Pathfields footpath between Bude and Stratton.(23), Looking towards Bude (24) There are various legends about this stone, one of which relates, that when it hears the church clock strike midnight, the stone runs around the field!

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