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Favorite Project
Each
quarter one of our local recorders will be asked to submit some
text and photographs that illustrate a favorite project or
subject that their Society has worked on. We start the ball
rolling with a project from Bude, Stratton and District O.C.S.
where Audrey E Aylmer has been the recorder for twelve
years. Audrey
recently decided to retire. We thank her for taking the time
to put this together before hanging up her pen and camera.
No. 1 Bude Stratton &
District Old Cornwall Society
STILES & STONES
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on photos to see a larger version
Stiles
on Morwenstow footpaths.
1.
FP 10 Between Eastway Manor and Stanbury Mouth.
2.
FP 37 From Stanbury Manor to FP 13 South of Rectory Farm
passing Tonnacombe Manor.
3&4. FP 37. Spur to Rectory Farm from
FP12 looking North from track (3) and
looking South from field (4)
5.
Stile set into West wall of Morwenstow Churchyard, (note
single slab)
These
stiles are between the old manor houses and the church, or
give access to the sea.
6&7 Bude/Stratton.
Stile on footpath leading from the medieval hamlet of
Maer to join Bridleway
2. Maer Bridge to
Northcott. (6) Viewed
from Bridleway 2. Constructed of stone with single slate slab
as barrier(7)
8.
Entrance to Warbstow Churchyard showing an early type of
‘cattle-grid’.
9.
Entrance to St. Gennys Churchyard. The horizontal slabs have
been filled in.
An entry in the Churchwardens Accounts of 1775
records ‘William Smeeth was paid 6d for ‘filling up the
stile’. (from ‘Wreckers and Wrestlers’ by Roger Parnall
1973).
Kilkhampton Churchyard once had a similar stone
‘cattle-grid’ now under concrete but many entrances of
this type still exist.
10.
Slate marker situated on the road between Diddies, Stratton
and Cross Lanes, Launcells, which marked the Boundary of the
Urban District Council and the Rural District Council and also
the Parish boundary of Stratton and Launcells.
This also shows a Bench mark.
11.
Granite Drinking Trough now sited outside Kilkhampton School.
(Photo E Burrows)
12.
Notice giving details of the Drinking Trough. (Photo E
Burrows)
13.
Rebuilt stone hedge at Jacobstow reusing beach pebbles. (Photo
G Fry)
Beach
pebbles were frequently used in hedge-banks before
restrictions were imposed
prohibiting their removal from the beaches.
14.
Stone commemorating the Coronation of King George the Fifth
set into the wall of the former Bay Tree Hotel garden,
situated at the bottom of Hospital
Road, Stratton.
15.
Milestone on old road leaving Townsend, Stratton. This was the
main route before the new A39 bypass was made.
16.
Stone marking The Peter Truscott Bridge, Bude Marshes Nature
Reserve. (Photo L Opie)
17. 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.
18. Peter on ‘his’ Bridge. ( A Kingfisher flew
by!)
19. County Stone outside the Union Inn, Union
Hill, Stratton. (Photo G Fry)
This stone marks the County’s responsibility
for maintaining the bridge over the River Strat.
20. County Stone (as No.19) for maintenance of
Rodd’s Bridge over the River Neet on Bude Marshes.
21. Mooring ring from the Canal. Now set into
garden wall near The Lock Gates.
22. Mooring stone, Lower Wharf, Bude Canal. Note
worn ‘chain-marks’.
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 strikes midnight, the stone
runs around the field!
All
photographs are by Audrey E Aylmer except where otherwise acknowledged.
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