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Topic: OAKLANDS, possibly Plymstock or Totnes? (Read 170 times)
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kesaunders79
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Hi everyone,
Can anyone local tell me if they know anything about a house or guest house called Oaklands that was I think in Plymstock but possibly Totnes area? I have relatives who used to live there during the 1940's and probably earlier and have an old unidentified photo that I would like to possibly match up with that house.
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Kieran 
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slightlyfoxed
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There was an Oaklands in Plystock.
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~valhender/dirtrans/mor1870/plmstoc.htm#plyms
There is a place called Oaklands in Totnes which is now a school Oakland Park
I found this description of Plypmton but will to go to the library to see if there is anything else.
circa 19th century Knowles Major William, Oaklands Plymstock,diocese of Totnes
today there is
Oaklands
76/78 Church Road
Plymstock,Plymouth,Devon
PL9 9AY.,England
Tel: 01752 481166
from http://www.british-history.ac.uk/Default.aspx
Oaklands parish of Oakhampton 1822 Albany Savile, Esq.
M. P.
PLYMSTOCK, or PLYMPSTOCK, in the hundred and deanery of Plympton, lies about three miles from Plympton, and two from Plymouth. The large village of Oreston, formerly Harston, and the villages of Hooe, Elburton, and Stoddescombe, are in this parish. The latter was the birth-place of Dr. Nathaniel Forster, the editor of Plato, and the author of other learned works. (fn. 16)
Plymstock was the head-quarters of the besieging army, when Plymouth was invested by Colonel Digby, in September, 1643; and it continued to be one of the principal stations after Prince Maurice arrived with his army. The royalists had batteries at Oreston and Mount Batten, in this parish, and a guard at Hooe. (fn. 17)
The manor of Plymstock belonged to the abbot and convent of Tavistock. It was not part of the original endowment, nor does it appear by whom it was given, but it was parcel of the possessions of that monastery when the Domesday survey was taken. Having been granted, with other possessions of Tavistock abbey, to John Lord Russell, it has descended with them to the Duke of Bedford.
The manor of Goosewell, in this parish, belongs to John Harris, Esq., of Radford, in Plymstock, whose family have been settled there upwards of 400 years.
We are informed, by the editor of the last edition of Prince's Worthies, that the ill-fated Sir Walter Ralegh was some time a prisoner at Radford, under the charge of Sir Christopher Harris, after his arrival at Plymouth, in 1618, and it is said that several of his letters were long preserved in the Harris family.
The manor of West Hooe belongs to Sir John Rogers, Bart., and has been a considerable time in his family.
The manor of Stoddiscombe, now the property of Edmund Pollexfen Bastard, Esq., M. P., was purchased by the late Mr. Bastard of Sir William Molesworth, Bart., who inherited it from the Morices.
Bell Vue, adjoining to Radford, the seat of the late Thomas Hillersdon Bulteel, Esq., was built by his father-in-law, Christopher Harris, Esq. It is now occupied by Mrs. Bulteel and her son.
The church was formerly a chapel belonging to the priory of Plympton, to which the tithes were appropriated. The benefice is now a perpetual curacy, in the gift of the dean and chapter of Windsor, in whom the tithes are vested. At Hooe, or Howe, in this parish, was a chapel of St. Catherine, mentioned as an ancient chapel in Bishop Stafford's register, 1413. (fn. 18) Leland speaks of it as existing in his time.
The Rev. Vincent Warren, who died in 1791, founded a school for 30 children, 20 of whom, 10 boys and as many girls, are annually clothed. It is endowed with 2000l. 3 per cent. annuities.
At Turnchapel, in this parish, is a wet-dock belonging to the Earl of Morley, sufficiently capacious for the reception of frigates. Adjoining it is a ship-yard, in which ships of the line are occasionally built. The Armada, of 74, was launched from it in 1810, and the Clarence, of 74, has been since built there.
On the Stoddiscombe estate is a reservoir for 12,000 tons of water, conveyed by iron pipes to the shore, where is a pier constructed for the protection of tank-vessels, stationed for the purpose of carrying a supply of water to ships as soon as they enter Breakwater, avoiding thereby a most inconvenient and tedious delay, whilst waiting for changes of wind. This desirable object has been attained by the activity and ingenuity of Joseph Whidbey, Esq., who resides at a new-built house called Bovysand Lodge, overlooking the reservoir.
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