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Kelly-Hockin   Property      Residential      15 Ridge Hill
DHRG No. 100054

Kelly-Mayne 1861   Property      Residential      15 Ridge Hill
DHRG No. 100055

Lidstone-Martin 1889   Property      Residential      15 Ridge Hill
DHRG No. 100056

Teage-Lidstone R   Property      Residential      15 Ridge Hill
DHRG No. 100057

Teage-Newman F   Property      Residential      15 Ridge Hill
DHRG No. 100058

Tax Form   Property      Residential      15 Ridge Hill
DHRG No. 100059

Summerland Browns Hill   Property      Residential
DHRG No. 100060
A collection of deeds re house and gardens called Summerland at Browns Hill 1728 to 1864.

Conveyance Summary   Property      Residential      Mount Boone House
DHRG No. 100061
Conveyance of Mount Boone Estate, lately conveyed by Mary Harris, widow, to John Scale, 20/10/1725.
Indenture of Conveyance between 1. Mrs Elizabeth Seale, widow, mother & guardian of John Seale, an infant under 21, viz. aged 19 years, and 2. Capt. Thomas Pipon, brother of E. Seale and uncle of John Seale.

Mount Boone House Conveyance 1724 – Image of Original   Seale Family Papers      1600-1749 Property      Residential      Mount Boone House 18thC
DHRG No. 100062
Image of document.

Mount Boone House Conveyance   Property      Residential      Mount Boone House
DHRG No. 100063
Image of schedule of contents

Mount Boone house Conveyance   Property      Residential      Mount Boone House
DHRG No. 100064
A History.

Conveyance of property in Lower Street   Property      Residential
DHRG No. 100066
Document Number: TO/Ad/Pr/001
Document Held: DRO Exeter

Mr Robert Cranford to the Dartmouth Local Board of Health. £475 from Board of Health for 2 houses near churchyard on the west, a public street and premises owned by John Strike, innkeeper. On north partly by a public street and partly by public steps lately converted to a slopeway from New Quay to the church. On east by street leading to Lower Street. On south by lands of Robert Luke, previously in the possession of Pegg Maddick and Margaret Stephens or tenants and then Wm Ash Hawke, Gge Walter Bodley and Thom Lear as tenants. Premises lately taken down to improve and widen the streets.

Conveyance of House in Pillory Lane   Property      Residential
DHRG No. 100067
Document Number: TO/Ad/Pr/007
Document Held: DRO Exeter

£70 paid to Robert Cranford by Town Council acting as Urban Sanitary Authority.

Treasurer – Richard Webber Egg
Mentioned;- Alexander Ridgeway
Public Health Act 1875

Dwelling bounded south side of Pillory Lane on north and east by dwelling property of Trustees of the Borough, on the south side by property of Alexander Ridgeway Esq, on west side by piece of land formerly a house taken down by Council for widening highway.

Valuation of the dwelling house late Lakes   Property      Residential 19thC
DHRG No. 100068
Document Number: TO/Ad/Pr/009
Document Held: DRO Exeter

Oaths made by;-
Henry Joseph Holdsworth Esq – Mayor,
Robert Efford – Builder and Appraiser,
William Adams – Builder.
Visited the dwelling house in possession of Messrs Harris & Co and John Jennings to survey and estimate.
Valued at £20 per annum (rent), £350 for the term of 79 years. For further information for documents in this series see 103051 Guildhall Documents 1.

Sale of Seale property to H Mair. 1864   Property      Residential
DHRG No. 100069
Document Held: Routley Family.
Sale of property by Henry Seale to Hugh Mair April 1864
This Indenture list many Dartmouth property’s sold by H Seale to Hugh Mair & possibly marks the ending of the Seale families affair with Dartmouth after several centuries. Also given are details of the occupants at that time. PDF File.

13 Clarence Hill   Property      Residential
DHRG No. 100071

Assignment of Title of 1 house at New Quay   Property      Residential
DHRG No. 100072
Document Number: TO/Ad/LE/026
Document Held: DRO Exeter

Mary Bastard, widow/executrix of John Bastard, to Thomas Lake pawnbroker(?), the western one of 2 houses near New Quay, including ground floor shop and office, for £177-10-0. Premises lately rebuilt.

Previous owners or adjoining owners referred to were Elizabeth Pottin, Staplehill, Adams, Roger Bidgood, Honor Hawkins dec’d.

Assignment of Lease of land at Mill Gullet   Property      Residential
DHRG No. 100073
Document Number: TO/Ad/LE/027
Document Held: DRO Exeter

Assignment of Lease of land at Mill Gullet for up to 4 houses, by Thomas Bartlett Codner, Master R.N., and Joseph Lidstone builder to William Gregory victualler, 29 July 1856.

Land measuring 74 ft. e-w. and between 27 ft. and 56 ft. n-s, bounded by house/garden of Charles Campion Jones, highway and millpond.

Consideration £250 plus £175 = £425.

Indenture and schedule A Ridgeway   Property      Residential
DHRG No. 100074
Document Number: TO/A D/L E/039
Document Held: DRO Exeter

Alexander Ridgeway of Shepherd A in the parish of Blackawton Covent with Dartmouth local Board of Health formed in 1858. Reference to several Indenture this previously made between the Board of Health and Richard Webb Egg treasurer, and A Ridgeway really arched cellars at Bearcove, land and hereditament conveyed to a A Ridgeway with that other hereditament.

Schedule:- List history of the various properties from 1835. Names mentioned:-Amos Peek, John Caddy, John Brown Smith, Joseph Wills, Joseph Love, Jane Efford, William Hockin, Robert Loney, Walter Prdeaux, Hodge, Perring, Thomas Holdsworth Brooking, Thorn, Gray, Steer, Mitchelmore, Lewis, Henry, Lamble, and others.

From 1802., Hayman Codner, New house in Higher Street and Newcomen Road. From 1845:- Codner Thompson Symonds, Earle, Neck.

15 Brown’s Hill   Property      Residential
DHRG No. 100078
A history of 15 Brown's Hill, otherwise known as Slippery Causeway, Dartmouth