North Devon Estate Sold For £20,500
Wolland Cary Estate, comprising 338 acres, at Bucks, near Bideford, was sold by auction at Bideford yesterday for a
Dispute over ownership31 July 1964
Army bomb disposal needed13 February 1976
The Village of a Single SurnameClinging to the cliffs of the rocky, wave battered North Devon coastline west of Bideford, its cottages clustered in a small
Repair work has begunAugust 1952
North Devon Estate Sold For £20,500Wolland Cary Estate, comprising 338 acres, at Bucks, near Bideford, was sold by auction at Bideford yesterday for a
North Devon Estate Sold For £20,500 - Walland Cary
Most Bucks Homes Go To Tenants
Wolland Cary Estate, comprising 338 acres, at Bucks, near Bideford, was sold by auction at Bideford yesterday for a total of £20,578. Vendor was Col H C Cary Batten, of Yeovil.
Formerly in the hands of the Elwes family, the estate was built up about 60 years ago. Part had been disposed of previously, and yesterday Wolland Cary House, the home farm, accommodation land, and properties at Bucks Cross and Bucks Mills were sold.
Mr C A M Freake of Riverside, Northam, obtained the house and farm for £8,000. Included with Wolland Cary House were the entrance lodge, stables, coachman's cottage, and grounds. The residence contains nine bed and dressing-rooms.
The home farm has about 123 acres, 55 of which are arable and pasture land, 40 acres plantations, and the remainder cliff and foreshore. The farm house was formerly the keeper's cottage.
Bucks Mills Hotel, with five bedrooms, was sold to the tenant, Mrs E M...
Dispute over ownership31 July 1964
Mr Trevor Davey, of Bucks Cross, skipper of the Lundy Gannet, has applied to the Crown Commissioners for the rights of about a mile of foreshore at Bucks Mills.
He has done so, he said this week, on behalf of local people and the public.
But the new owner of the Walland Cary estate, Mr E E T Wood, a property director, whose claim to the foreshore has been allowed by the Crown Estate Commissioners, said he did not intend to anything to hinder the public. “I doubt whether I could anyway” he added.
He claimed that his deeds proved ownership of the road, the slipway and the beach. But he had bought Walland Cary for its beauty and he wished the public to share it with him.
Mr Wood also revealed that he given notice to quit to two tenants of boat sheds he owned near the slipway. One of them, he said, was Mr Davey.
Gazette article dated 31 July 1964
Army bomb disposal needed13 February 1976
The label on the box said chocolate bars; but Mr David Powell, who clutched it as he fell when part of a loft he was clearing in a derelict cottage at Bucks Mills collapsed, found that it contained 10 sticks of gelignite in a ‘sweating’ condition.
Mr Powell, who lives at Winsworthy, Clovelly, was clearing out Corner Cottage which belongs to his mother. It had been empty for nine months and to his knowledge, he said, no-one had been in the loft for more than 20 years.
An Army bomb disposal expert flew in by helicopter from Salisbury and disposed of the explosives, plus 100 detonators also found, by blowing them up on the beach.
Gazette article dated 13 February 1976
The Village of a Single SurnameClinging to the cliffs of the rocky, wave battered North Devon coastline west of Bideford, its cottages clustered in a small
The Village of a Single Surname
Clinging to the cliffs of the rocky, wave battered North Devon coastline west of Bideford, its cottages clustered in a small valley carved by north flowing streams in their rush to the sea, is the former fishing village of Bucks Mills.
Smaller and less spectacular than neighbouring Clovelly, three miles farther west along the coast, Bucks Mills shares something of the character of its bigger counterpart, yet has been largely spared the attentions which have made Clovelly a tourist's Mecca.
At Bucks Mills one senses predominantly the quietness of a remote coastal village, resting in retirement it seems from busier days of fishing and traffic in stone, enlivened in summer by only a minority of holidaymakers who come often just to fish for prawns, or to potter with a boat along the pebble shore.
Until the middle of the 19th century the village was known as Buckish Mills, and it is named as such on the first edition map of the Ordnance Survey. But by 1878,...
Repair work has begunAugust 1952
Defies sea at Bucks Mills
Accompanying pictures show how ‘self-help’ by inhabitants of Bucks Mills has met the menace of the high seas which threatened to destroy the only slip-way.
Above a trader resident carries a hundred-weight sack of cement down the steep track
The general public gave generous monetary and physical response to the appeal of local initiative. The situation has been saved and the expenditure probably hundreds of pounds of public money has been avoided thereby. Bideford Rural District Council have their blessing! Donations from friends of Bucks should be sent to Mr A K Chope (acting hon. secretary), Bideford.
22 August 1952