Brixham Heritage Database

Listed below are examples of the land documents in our archive. Our database contains an index to all names and places in the land documents in our archive and in additional transcripts in our library. It also indexes a large number of land documents held in certain other collections, summaries of which have been obtained for our collection. For details of our search service, click here.

Lordship and Manor of Brixham:
Conveyance 6/3/1759, Pomeroy Gilbert to William Vittery, William Eames, Samuel Holden, William Holden, Henry Squire the younger, Humphrey Bartlett, Peter Bartlett, John Laverance, Edward Vittery, Samuel Vittery, Alan Griffin, & Odes Bailey the elder (thereafter 'the Quay Lords')

Berry Head
Copy of Act of George III for purchase of land for defence works 1794

Bruttons, Quay Meadow
.1 Indenture Charles Hayne to John Hill, lease 1787+ transcript
.2 Indenture Charles Hayne to Elizabeth Hill, sale 1798
.3 Indenture Charles Hayne to Elizabeth Hill, sale 1798

Coytes close
Messrs Bartlett & others to Christopher Bartlett - lease 4/10/1817

Dashpers - Frogwell Tenement
Charles Hayne to William Calley - lease 1784

Fore Street, Nos 29 & 31
.1 Lords of manor to John Vittery - 1 year lease 1839 .2 Release from same, 1839
.3 Miss Jane France to Henry May - conveyance 1887
.4 Will of Susan Bartlett France 1858
.5 Abstract of title JS & JV France 1887
.6 Henry May to WE Raymont - lease 1894
.7 Henry May to Mrs A A May Deed of gift 1894

Furzeham
Edward Calrke to Richard Walter Wolston - Lease of field with mineral rights 1858

Higher Street
Indenture, mortgage on 2 houses between John Smith & Henry Grant 1824

Middle Street, Windsor castle cafe (formerly New Inn)
.1 John Matthews to John Ford Demise upon trust 1827
.2 Mssrs Ford & Pentecost to Messrs Matthews & Jones Assignment 1850
.3 Andrew & Hannah Bools to John H Yeo assignment 1871
.4 Daniel Matthews to John H Yeo assignment 1871
.5 JH Yeo & Torbay Ice Co conveyance 1871
.6 JH Yeo & Brixham and Torbay Ice Co mortgage 1872
.7 Transfer of mortage to William Varwell 1874
.8 W Varwell to EGA Narraway assignment 1878
.9 Mrs Ann Matthews to EGA Narraway conveyance 1879
.10 EGA Narraway to Miss Mahala Symons conveyance 1903

Mill Tye, Paradise Alley
.1 John Matthews the elder to John Matthews the younger lease 9/3/1827
.2 Release of the same 10/3/1827
.3 Daniel Matthews to WA Schultz conveyance 1903
.4 Richard & William Hamling to Brixham Gas Co Conveyance 1907

Milton street
.1 Mary Welch & Elizabeth Nichols to John Gilbert lease transcript 1724
.2 John Gilbert to robert Spark lease transcript 1724
.3 Mary Spark will transcript 1747 .4 Notice of probate 1749

Paradise
.1 J Tarring, S Winsor to W Clarke, W May, S Stephens Lease 1813
.2 M, J, G & N Tyrer to G Fogwill conveyance 1857
.3 JC Martin & W Blake to John Elliot assignment 1857
.4 G Fogwill to John Elliot conveyance 1857

Pinheys Row
.1 Lower Brixham District Board to Mary Ann Furneaux conveyance of land over leat Nos 3&4 1867
.2 Lower Brixham District Board to Mary Mudge conveyance of land over leat No 5 1867
.3 MA Furneaux & Mary P Furneaux to AF Miller conveyance 1910

Rame Alley
.1 JC Lindop to E Lockyer letter 4/1886 .2 ditto 5/1886
.3 J Lakeman to E Lockyer receipt 1886
.4 Local board to T Lakeman loan account 1887

Raybarns
Mortgage between Henry Foale & Richard Crowte & William Clarke 1778

28 Rea Barn road
.1 Charles Hayne, John Seale & others to Joseph Wyatt lease 1820
.2 Earl of Sandwich & others to John Shears lease 1831
.3 Earl of Sandwich & others to John Shears counterpart of lease 1831
.4 Joseph Wyatt to Mary Ann Shears assignment 1862
.5 RW Wolston to C Seale hayne conveyance 1863
.6 CS Hayne to henry may conveyance 1871
.7 CS Hayne abstract of title 1871
.8 R May abstract of title 1871