Moretonhampstead History Society - Select Bibliography

Select Bibliography

G.D. Adams and R.J.J. Simkins, A History of the Inns and Taverns of Moretonhampstead (Moretonhampstead LHS, 1996) [Index]
J.A. Benton, The Parish Church of Saint Andrew, Moretonhampstead (revised ed., 1974)
E.F. Clark, George Parker Bidder, The Calculating Boy (KSL publications, 1983)
George Friend, Memories of Moretonhampstead (Devon Books, 1989; reprinted 1994) [Index]
R.O. Heath, Sparrowhawk.
R.O. Heath, The Murder of Jonathan May (Moretonhampstead LHS, 1995) [Index]
Trevor James, Prisoners of War in Dartmoor Towns (Orchard Publications, 2000)
David Keir, The Bowring Story (Bodley Head, 1963).
R.S. Lambert, The Innocence of Edmund Galley (Newnes, 1936)
M.A. Simkins, A Short History of George Parker Bidder, 1806-1878 (Moretonhampstead LHS, 1995) [Index]
Mark Stoyle, Loyalty and Locality, popular allegiance in Devon during the English Civil War (University of Exeter, 1994)
Rev. W.H. Thornton, Short Devonshire Stories (Townsend, 1915)
Cecil Torr, Small Talk in Wreyland (originally published privately 1918-23; several reprints available, the latest published 1996 by Forest Publications).
Arthur C. Wardle, Benjamin Bowring and his descendants - a record of mercantile achievement (Hodder & Stoughton, 1939)
C. Wilson, First with the News, the History of W.H. Smith 1792-1972 (Jonathan Cape, 1985)

Obituary of Charlie Laycock, Transactions of the Devonshire Association, 75 (1943), pp19-20.
Lewis B. Bowring (ed.), 'Sir John Bowring', Autobiographical Recollections of Sir John Bowring (King & Co, 1877), pp44-50
Anthony Greenstreet, 'Parole Prisoners of War around Dartmoor', Dartmoor Magazine, 48 (1997), pp14-15
Anthony Greenstreet, 'Rev. William H. Thornton, an old west-country clergyman', Dartmoor Magazine, 58 (2000), pp24-5
G.W.G. Hughes, 'Moretonhampstead', Transactions of the Devonshire Association, 86 (1954), pp75-88
S. Laithwaite, 'A Dutch officer in Moretonhampstead, c. 1807' in Todd Gray (ed.), Devon Documents (1996), pp116-119
M.A. & R.J.J. Simkins, 'Lord Hambleden and Moretonhampstead', Transactions of the Devonshire Association, 123 (1991), pp167-188 [Index]
Elizabeth Stanbrook, 'A Dartmoor legend: two French generals at the Ockery, Princetown', Devon Historian, 42 (1991), pp3-8
A.C. Ellis, 'Moretonhampstead: Some historical and other details', Torquay Directory, Wed. Mar 21 (1926)
Stanley.D. Chapman (ed.), The Devon Cloth Industry in the Eighteenth Century: Sun Fire Office Inventories of Merchants' and Manufacturers' property, 1726-1770 (Devon & Cornwall Record Society, N.S. vol. 23, 1978), pp97-100