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Fairy Cross, Devon

Fairy Cross maps

Historic maps of Fairy Cross and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis.   View all Fairy Cross maps

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Historic map of Fairy Cross

Devon map

Illustrated Victorian map of Devon

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Fairy Cross photos

We have no photos of Fairy Cross, although we do have photos of these nearby places: Alwington, Parkham, Abbotsham, Littleham, Bucks Mills, Bideford, Westward Ho!, Northam, Weare Giffard, Woolsery, Westleigh, Appledore, Clovelly

Memories of Fairy Cross

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Simple Times

Well our address was quite easy ,
Fairy Cross,
Near Bideford,
North Devon.
Tel. Horns Cross 328   !!
Our mail always found us with no problems at all. There were not a lot of us there in those days. We lived in Headons Cottage, it used to have a thatch roof until it caught fire in the mid 1960s and was... [more]

Shared on Sunday, April 13, 2008 by Derek England.

Devon memories

Church going in the 1960's

As local village children we used to walk from Fairy Cross meeting other children from the council houses along the way and wind our way through  the narrow lane, sometimes picking wild strawberries in summer - moving out of the way of cars that needed to pass us - usually on their way to church also - untill we arrived at... [more]

Shared on Sunday, June 11, 2006 by Derek England.

Growing up in the 1960's

We lived in Headon's Cottage, Fairy Cross - it had been an old German doctor's cottage in the 1700s, a Doctor Wacerill who is buried in St. Andrew's churchyard,  and his faded plaque was still above the front door - walls made of cob and thatched roof etc. We were just up the road from Portledge drive - my grandfather William... [more]

Shared on Sunday, June 11, 2006 by Derek England.

Evacuee

I was an evacuee to Parkham in 1943 and would love to hear from anyone who might have been there at that time. I had very happy memories of Parkham and attending the village school.
If anyone has memories of this period please contact me.
My email address is   alecnav@hotmail.co.uk

Shared on Saturday, September 05, 2009 by Douglas Goodman.

Abbotsham School In The 1960's

Growing up at Fairy Cross, Alwington and as our village school had closed in the late 1950s we had to catch the school bus daily morning and afternoon to Abbotsham Primary School. (Shown in the centre back of the picture next to St Helens Church). I started in 1963 in the "little ones class" of the two roomed school. Mrs Elston... [more]

Shared on Sunday, August 06, 2006 by Derek England.

School Days

As a boarding pupil at Grenville College I used to walk up to Abbotsham in sunny summer weather from Moreton House with my Sunday packed lunch. It was a very quiet village and one of my main memories is the range of old carvings on the pews in the old church.

The village was also on the route... [more]

Shared on Tuesday, July 11, 2006 by Roger Griffith.

Family connections.

This picture was actually taken in the early 1960's and later turned into a postcard. The man on the motorbike is my late father, John Ridd, who was a local farm manager at the time. The motorbike by the way is a BSA Bantam - he was the only person in the village who had one like it!

Shared on Friday, May 12, 2006 by Kelvin Ridd.

New Inn Littleham

The picture of the New Inn at Littleham Village brought back memories of my childhood. Together with a sister and three brothers we were evacuated to Littleham and after our home in London was bombed all the family moved into a house, Oasis, just across from the New Inn and we never returned to London. Mr Addis was the Landlord of... [more]

Shared on Wednesday, March 26, 2008 by Albert Froud.

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