Surname Index

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West Buckland year book and kalendar for 1857

South Molton: W.Tucker (1857) [171]p: ill, 2 of pls.

Index prepared by Michael Steer

West Buckland is a small village located 8 miles (13 km) east-south-east of Barnstaple in North Devon. The hamlet of Elwell lies to its north-east. Formerly part of the Fortescue Estate, West Buckland is reached by a single track, steep hill up from the North Devon Link Road. The village may be best known for having given its name to the adjacent co-educational independent West Buckland School. The school was founded as the Devon County School in 1858 by Rev. J.L. Brereton to provide a public school education for sons of farmers and the middle class. Profits from the sale of this rather whimsical year book with its agrarian focus were given to the West Buckland Farming and Cottage Garden Societies. The book also contains a 'Sunday Supplement' of religious motivational readings. This rare and much sought-after book was produced digitally from a copy held in the Harvard University Library collection and is the gift of Daniel B Fearing (1915). It can be downloaded from https://books.google.co.uk/books, with a search by either author or title. Google has sponsored the digitisation of books from several libraries. These books, on which copyright has expired, are available for free educational and research use, both as individual books and as full collections to aid researchers.