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1550 "Symonds Farmhouse"
(now "Harberton House") built
1688 Dated
sundial on Preston Farm chimney
1688 Plaque on outside of south parapet of Yeo Bridge by Sandwell Lodge
states "New built at the Counteys Charges 1688 John Symons Gent John
Richards Treasurer" [John Symons presumably resided at "Symons'
Farm", later "Symonds Farm", now "Harberton House".]
1751 "School
House" built
1764 "Vine House" built
ca.1840 Barn converted into Ebenezer Wesley Chapel (now "Wesley House")
Tristford House built
1856 Tristford Eastern Lodge built
1858 Tristford clock bears marking 'Wynne Pendarves 1858'
1880 Elijah Yeoman (photographer) married Honor Varder in Harberton
1893 "Lauraleigh" and "Leighbridge Cottage" built at Leigh Bridge
1897 Church gains clock
1900 Lanoria Cottages built by Robert Harvey
1901 Victoria Cottages (?and 4/5 St Andrews Cottages) built by Robert Harvey
1904 St Clements Terrace built by Robert Harvey, replacing "Fleas Alley"
1904 Town Farm 1&2 built by Robert Harvey
1910 Robert Harvey donated a peal of 14 bells for the central tower at Buckfast Abbey
1920 1 Tristford Road (thatched) burned down (Hettie: "playing with matches"), rebuilt 2-storey, slated
1923 New Constitutional Club built by Robert Harvey
1930 Robert Harvey died
1946/7 Large beech tree beside lower church path fell down
1948 Fire at Church House Inn, 2nd chimney removed soon after? (still there in 1952 photo in pub)
1950 5th June, Church House Inn sold by trustees (church) to Iris Bamford (previous landlord Parnell)
1952 Mark Goddard closed Globe Inn (became Marbeth Cottage), put manager in Church House Inn
1952 Pendarves built (visible in aeriel photo dated 23/6/1952, new vicarage not visible)
1953 Will Fry at Church House Inn
ca.1953/4 New vicarage built (Basil J W Pedley vicar from 1954, first occupant)
mid 1950s Old Forge Garage opened, previously country hotel
1960~ Symonds Farm stopped farming (Mugford last farmer)
1960s? Mill Cross built - "Woolaway" house?
1962/4 school shut/converted (two other School Orchard bungalows built soon after)
1963/4? Henry Wyse (he of Wyse Englebourne) 5 up / 5 down almshouses demolished behind Church House Inn
1964 two School Orchard bungalows built (after closure of school)
1964 "Higher Orchard" built (first bungalow below Playing Field; second 'new' bungalow down built little later, 1973?))
ca. 1966 "Town Farm Orchard" built (second bungalow below Playing Field)
1970s early: "Grey Weathers" (now "Briar House") built
1971 petrol star rating introduced (re Old Forge Garage photos)
1972 Fore Street shop closed
1972 Church Terrace demolished
1973 "Colt House" (now "Lychgate House") built near Church Terrace site
1973 Ebenezer Wesley Chapel converted into residence "Wesley House"
1974? Wyse House built on site of Henry Wyse almshouses
1976 (from ~1970) "Symonds Farmhouse" (now "Harberton House") owned by Griffiths
1977 Garden Terrace (3 doors) / shop + four Fore St cottages still present
>1977 ??ditto all demolished, Church Court built ??
1977 Old Forge Service Station ceased operation
>1977 "Sunnyside" built between "Harbourne House" and "Church Cottage" opposite pub
1978 Oak tree planted for the Queen Elizabeth II's Silver Jubilee (1977), beside top car park above Harberton Parish Hall
1987 Meadow Close built
1995 "The Old Orchard" (Simmons Farm yard) built
1995/1996 Harberton Parish Hall built
199? Simmons Barns converted
199? "Ashbrook Cottage"/"Orchard End" built (Town Farm), Upper Barn / Town Farm Barn converted?
2003 Nos. 1-4 Pendarves "officially" demolished Weds 3rd to Fri 5th September, following outbreak of concrete cancer (and occupation by squatters), prior to redevelopment
2022 November Water pressure reducing valve equipment fitted in alpaca / 'Pound Barn' field, adjacent Tristford Farm rear drive entrance corner
Victoria to 1902
Edward VII - 1901 to 1910
George V - 1910 to 1936
Edward VIII - 1936
George VI - 1936 to 1952
Elizabeth II - 1952