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This page (added 28/3/05) contains random web links relating to Harberton found e.g. during random Google searches on 'Harberton', with date found, some of which may ultimately result in new sections on this website (time alone will tell). The fluid nature of the internet means that any of these links could cease to function at any time, so don't tell us about this. We'll check them out from time to time and remove dead ones. Links found prior to 28/3/05 have no accession date. Some of the references are buried deep and you may need to use your browser's Find function (e.g. Ctrl + F in Internet Explorer) once the page is fully open to locate them.

[3/7/24] https://devonchurchland.co.uk/description/harberton-church-of-st-andrew-description
Very interesting description with excellent photographs of St Andrew's

[17/5/22] https://www.ribapix.com/search?adv=false&cid=0&mid=0&vid=0&q=tristford&sid=false&isc=true&orderBy=0#
Architect's (George Wightwick) designs, dated 1844, for Tristford House, Harberton, Devon, for Mrs Wynne Pendarves:

[ 6/12/21] https://www.devonheritage.org/SearchDevonHeritage.htm Search 'Harberton' yields 15 various results

[6/12/21] https://www.devonheritage.org/Places/Harberton/HarbertonProtestationReturn.htm HARBERTON - THE PROTESTATION RETURN OF 1641/2

[6/12/21] https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=583211.0 Harberton Parish Records - TURPIN [1861-1641]

[18/7/20] https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2244083/st-andrew-churchyard 156 (at date of listing) of the graves in St Andrew's churchyard, Harberton [update 23/3/22: number listed now 162]

[28/9/15] http://www.shipsnostalgia.com/showthread.php?t=29613 More on the history of the two SS Harbertons (and an SS Harbourne, and an SS Harborne) - owned and run by former shipping company J & C Harrison.

[3/8/15 - may be time-limited] http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=1000854063 An Amazon video advert featuring three Harberton residents, but referring to Harbertonford, or 'Habertonford' as Amazon's title reads.

[25/11/07] http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/Mariners/2005-05/1115200182 More about old SS Harberton(s)

[17/7/06] http://www.silverwellfineart.com/stevenpratt/index.htm Local artist Steve Pratt's work

[17/7/06] http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nra/searches/sidocs.asp?SIR=O100752 Links to "1901-58: log and punishment book" and "1883-1964: log book, registers and stock accounts" for Harberton Church of England School from national Register of Archives referring to Devon Record Office

[12/7/06] http://www.dartingtonarchive.org.uk/pages/lkedcc.html Leonard Elmhirst (Dartington Hall owner) was elected as a county councillor for the Harberton Electoral Division in 1937. If you use the Search facility on this page, enter 'harberton' under Any Text, and look at the 'Survey of Devon Village Schools' you will see reference to an inspection of Harberton School 1928/1929.

[17/7/06] http://tomkerswill.co.uk/musicians-only-resources/list-record-companies-labels-music-contact-details-resources-a&r.php Dangerous Records, Sandwell

[12/7/06] http://www.humandesignfilms.com/ Sandwell Barns

[16/10/05] http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/tg/stores/detail/-/books/0954948904/reviews/026-0542037-6243651 Book by Harberton resident Ken Streat

[16/9/05] http://www.ukriversguidebook.co.uk/dartghoststory.htm A River Dart ghost story

[27/3/05] http://www.bamm.org.uk/jan_o_highway_mosaic_classes.htm Mixed media mosaic classes

Older links

http://www.vosa.gov.uk/vosa/publications/a&d%205113%20-%2010th%20june%202003.pdf [340K PDF file] Relates to skip traffic operation at Dundridge Yard 2003

G-AVLY crash landed near Tristford Reservoirhttp://www.aaib.gov.uk/publications/bulletins/october_1997/jodel_502164.cfm Harberton air crash 25 July 1997, linking to
http://www.aaib.gov.uk/cms_resources/dft_avsafety_pdf_502164.pdf Harberton air crash 25 July 1997

Harberton String Quartethttp://www.bima.com/strings.html Harberton String Quartet, Mount Vernon USA [contact subsequently established with Gaye Davis, member of the Quartet who was unaware of Harberton, Devon, saying "the name came from three names of original quartet members Harrell, Bergeron, and Payton"]

http://www.arts-info.co.uk/PAGES2/lt_IRELAND.htm Lost 'Harberton Theatre' in Ireland

http://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue1/tomlinson/scripts/abcd.cfm?site=50 Neolithic site at Hazard Hill - new Harberton website page to follow

http://www.victoriacross.co.uk/descrip_f.html Harberton Victoria Cross holder Francis Edward Henry Farquharson 1858

http://perso.wanadoo.fr/cdasm.56/dictionnaire/299.pdf Collier Harberton built 1894
http://www.naval-history.net/WW1oMSLosses1917.htm Harberton sunk 1917

http://www.vindicanadausa.com/memory.htm [huge page, slow to load, many graphics] SS Harberton, built 1930, picture and text - new Harberton website page to follow, giving more background, although shipping company's choice of name may have been pretty random.
Further pages relating to SS Harberton's WWII activities:
http://web.onetel.com/~tanyahemmings/page3.html
http://www.seawaves.com/newsletters/TDIH/february/24Feb.txt SS Harberton picks up crewmembers from torpedoed convoy ship 1941 in OB 288

http://www.warsailors.com/convoys/hx29.html Convoy HX 29 21/3/40-4/4/40
http://www.warsailors.com/convoys/hx58.html Convoy HX 58 15/7/40-31/7/40
http://www.warsailors.com/convoys/hx76.html Convoy HX 76 26/9/40-10/10/40
http://www.warsailors.com/convoys/hx92.html Convoy HX 92 29/11/40-12/12/40
http://www.warsailors.com/convoys/ob288.html Convoy OB288 18/2/41-22/2/41
http://www.warsailors.com/convoys/hx117.html Convoy HX 117 27/3/41-15/4/41
http://www.warsailors.com/convoys/hx131.html Convoy HX 131 6/6/41-23/6/41
http://www.convoyweb.org.uk/sl/index.html?sl084.htm~slmain Convoy SL.84 5/8/41-28/8/41
http://www.convoyweb.org.uk/oskms/index.html?os016.htm~osmain Convoy OS.16 5/1/42-23/1/42
http://www.convoyweb.org.uk/sl/index.html?sl101.htm~slmain Convoy SL.101 21/2/42-15/3/42
http://www.warsailors.com/convoys/sc135.html Convoy SC 135 27/6/43-11/7/43
http://www.warsailors.com/convoys/sc141.html Convoy SC 141 3/9/43-17/9/43
http://www.convoyweb.org.uk/oskms/index.html?os083.htm~osmain Convoy OS.83/KMS.57 12/7/44-3/8/44
http://www.convoyweb.org.uk/oskms/index.html?os089.htm~osmain Convoy OS.89/KMS.63 4/9/44-20/9/44
http://www.convoyweb.org.uk/oskms/index.html?os097.htm~osmain Convoy OS.97/KMS.71 3/12/44-7/12/44
http://www.convoyweb.org.uk/oskms/index.html?os106.htm~osmain Convoy OS.106/KMS.80 22/1/45-25/1/45

http://www.rootsweb.com/~canbc/clallam/characters.htm Harberton resident Harry E Joy drowned at sea 1904

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