Online Archive
As this website has developed the number of original sources given in transcript has increased. Some of these, such as Treleaven's diary, are hard to obtain in other forms. Thus it has been decided to relocate a number of transcripts of documents to this online archive for ease of maintenance and consultation.
Official Records (searchable databases)
- Parish registers of Baptism, Marriage and Burial
- Monumental Inscriptions in the parish church, in the graveyard of the church, and in the Unitarian Chapel
- Census records 1841-1901
- Directories 1793-1898
Maps and deeds
Newspaper Cuttings
- Newspaper references to the turnpikes - 1772-1834
- Exeter Flying Post references to Moreton inns - 1800-1858 (excluding the White Hart)
- Exeter Flying Post references to the White Hart - 1803-1881
- Various newspaper articles relating to the railway - 1866-1964
- Exeter Flying Post references to fires in Moreton - 1836-1854
- Exeter Flying Post account of 1926 fire
- Local press account of 1926 fire
Other Texts
- Three early descriptions of Moreton - c1630, 1793 and 1823
- Two letters from Fairfax to the House of Commons - 1645-1646
- Joshua Sprigge's account of the Battle of Bovey, published 1647
- Celia Fiennes's account of the handling of serges in Exeter in 1698
- Notes on the establishment of the Post Office - 1792
- Silvester Treleaven's diary - 1799-1816
- Excerpts from Sir John Bowring's memoirs
- Returns of chapels for the religious census of 1851
- MS list of people affected by 1845 fire
- Notes relating to education from the Report to the Charity Commissioners on the Endowed Charities (1907)
- Notes (other than those relating to education) from the above Report to the Charity Commissioners
- List of Carnival Queens - 1935-1984
Moretonhampstead Wills
Tithe Maps and Apportionment transcript
