Kilkhampton, Village 1910
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Photo ref:
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The London Inn (left) is well placed to catch passing trade on the main highway through the village. A single pony and trap contrasts with today's busy motor traffic that passes along this road - it is now the A39. Behind the trees, St James's church is well known for its carved bench ends and a Norman doorway.
An extract from Cornwall County Memories.
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My Great Great Grandfather was John Francis Dunstan,he was the minister but resigned and opened a school for learning a boarding school .He was well respected and his daughter Eliza was my great grandmother who also taught and married Christopher Kemp who was a teacher and came from Dolton in Devon.I believe that John francis Dunstan grave stone is very imposing and I hope to visit one day to see it .
Mr and Mrs George Cleave's house, on the left in white... used to give me sixpence when I collected clotted cream for my auntie May Alice and uncle, and Ernie Jeffery! Such a lovely man, high up in the military...related to Mr and Mrs Parker, North Close.... Susan Greenway (nee Barratt).
My grandparents Tom & Minnie Croucher lived at Cross Cottage (between Stibb and Kilk), their youngest son Derek married Jette after meeting her during the war in Denmark. They lived at 21 North Close Estate for many years but after my grandparents passed away they moved to Denmark with their two children, Susanne and Lynne. I was born in Plymouth but my father insisted my mother, Odene, and ...see more
My mother was born in Kilkhampton and I spent many holidays there at my gran's cottage which still stands next to Jolly Cottage at the north end of the village. My mother's sister Anne lives in Bude and she is the last remaing member of the family. She is 91 years old and still going strong!!!!. The family name is Jeffrey and two of the brothers had a well known "threshing" business in the late fifties ...see more
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