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Cullompton working page
This is to hold drafts and sources of materials for work on the Cullompton article

To do

 * Devon Growers Cully 2 page 93

Draft of Lead
Cullompton is a town and civil parish in the district of Mid Devon and the county of Devon, England, locally known as Cully. It is 13 mi miles north-north-east of Exeter and lies on the River Culm. In 2010 it had a population of 8,639 and is growing rapidly.

The earliest evidence of occupation is from the Roman period - there was a fort on the hill above the town and occupation in the current town centre. Columtune was mentioned in Alfred the Great's will. In the past the town's economy had a large component of wool and cloth manufacture, then later leather working and paper manufacture.

A large proportion of town's inhabitants are commuters but there is still some local manufacturing, including flour and paper mills. It has a monthly farmers' market held on the second Saturday of every month which is the oldest event of its kind in the South West. It is home to two grade I listed buildings: the fifteenth century St Andrew's parish church and the seventeenth century house known as The Walronds. The centre of the town is the only conservation area in Mid Devon and there are seven grade II* listed buildings and ninety grade II listed buildings in the parish.

Ideas: ---
 * expand on historical roots/founding
 * expand on economic basis now and past
 * date of St Andrews and Walronds
 * only conservation area in mid Devon
 * Fires
 * farmers market

Additional photos

 * Try and make a better long view than current (how about 20100101_cully/*letterbox*?)
 * another church (Catholic?) (take)
 * take new Library photo

John Shute

 * http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Miniature
 * http://www.archive.org/stream/miniaturecollect00will/miniaturecollect00will_djvu.txt
 * http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Dictionary_of_National_Biography_volume_52.djvu/180
 * http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=TII8AAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=engraving+in+england+in+the+sizteenth+%26+seventeenth+centuries-+a+descriptive+catalogue+with+introductions&hl=en&sa=X&ei=GW0UT-e9M8jKswa00u1L&ved=0CDYQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false
 * According to the book of Cullompton (page 11) there is also a reference to him being from Cully in Worth, R. N. 'A history of Devonshire, with sketches of its leading worthies'.

Sources of information

 * The book of Cullompton.
 * The second book of Cullompton
 * The standard history of Cullompton is by Murray Toogood Foster (1867 - 1953). It began as a paper read at the meeting of the Devonshire Association held in Cullompton in July 1910 and was published in Transactions of the Devonshire Association, volume 42 (available in Cullompton library). A second, shortened edition was published in 1964 giving a general history without too much detail. This is now out of print but is available in Cullompton library. Also scanned (badly!) at http://www.archive.org/stream/reportandtransa17artgoog/reportandtransa17artgoog_djvu.txt
 * The Rev Watkins Grubb, vicar from 1937 to 1946 wrote a massive history called 'The People, the Parish, and the Parsons, Collumpton in Devonshire' It runs to 540 pages of A4. He left Cullompton before he had time to publish it. Much of the material appeared in the church magazines of 1944 and 1945. Those articles were reprinted in 'Old Cullompton' (1986).
 * Rev Henry Overy, curate 1873 to 1874 wrote extensive 'Notes of Cullompton and its Parish Church'. They were published in the Exeter and Plymouth Gazette in 1876 (copies in the library). See also 'Pages from the Past' (1986) and 'Town on the Culm' (1985).
 * County Directories, 1840 onwards. Copies in the library. They contain interesting detail and lists of addresses of leading inhabitants.
 * In 1854 an inspector was sent to the town and made a report under Public Health Act. His report was published and contains details of local government, roads, lighting, water supply, drainage, burial grounds etc. Photocopy available in the library.
 * Lewis Upcott (1851 - 1947) wrote a small work entitled 'Our Vicars'. It was published for the first time in 1985 by David Pugsley.
 * F.J. Snell wrote three long articles on 'Cullompton - Its Story' which was published by the Devon and Somerset News in March 1933 (Tiverton Museum).
 * Eleanora Carus-Wilson, Professor of Economic History in the University of London, published an article in Medieval Archaeology vol 1, (1957) pages 104-117 on John Lane. Photocopy in the library.
 * Victoria_County_History
 * http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/place_page.jsp?p_id=3508&st=CULLOMPTON
 * tivvy rdc http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/relationships.jsp?u_id=10061684&c_id=10001043
 * Celie Fienes http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/text/chap_page.jsp?t_id=Fiennes&c_id=27 1698 (Culimton)
 * A topographical dictionary of Great Britain and Ireland 1833 http://books.google.com/books?id=ZHXRAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA210#v=onepage&q&f=false
 * May be more in The Devonshire Association For the Advancement of Science Literature and Art; Report and Transactions Volume XCVI [96] Cullompton
 * http://www.devon.gov.uk/historiccullompton
 * Population Data for 1801-1961: http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/data_cube_page.jsp?data_theme=T_POP&data_cube=N_TOT_POP&u_id=10105092&c_id=10001043&add=N

huge potential here: http://www.histpop.org/ohpr/servlet/Show?page=Home record from 1821 including census returns also check out http://www.devon.gov.uk/index/councildemocracy/neighbourhoods-villages/devontownprofiles/cullompton_devontown.htm
 * White's directory 1850 http://genuki.cs.ncl.ac.uk/DEV/Cullompton/index.html
 * F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 77.
 * Worth, R. N. A history of Devonshire, with sketches of its leading worthies (for John Shute and see what else)
 * http://genuki.cs.ncl.ac.uk/DEV/Cullompton/index.html
 * http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=TII8AAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=engraving+in+england+in+the+sizteenth+%26+seventeenth+centuries-+a+descriptive+catalogue+with+introductions&hl=en&sa=X&ei=GW0UT-e9M8jKswa00u1L&ved=0CDYQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false
 * The national archives: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=027-2404a3&cid=-1#-1