Newton Abbot: Totnes Turnpike Trust: The monthly meeting of the trustees was held on Friday 11th at Beazley’s Globe Hotel, when there were present W. … Esq., Chairman, Sir Warwick Tonkin, R. Durant, Esq. (Harpham). W.T. Watts, Esq., N. Gillard, Esq., Rev. R. Hext (Kingsteington, Messrs. C. Bowden, J. Creed, C. Wills, J. H. Whiteway, Goodridge, J. Vicary, W. Flamank, T. Flamank, J. Pidsley, W. Rendell (Staverton), R. Rendell, J. Pinsent, White, Matherdon, J. Harris … etc. … Rev. R. Hext complained of the very bad state of the road between Kingsteignton and Preston Gate. A committee consisting of Messrs. J. Creed, C. Wills, W. Flamank, J. Whiteway, were appointed to view and report. The Surveyor reported that the toll bar, at the Two Mile Oak, had been destroyed, and the one at Ogwell Lane injured, and was ordered to restore them. The clerk was directed to offer a reward of £5 for the discovery of the offenders, and the like sum for any further destroyer of the trust property. Mr. Gillard, in pursuance of notice given by him at the previous meeting at Totnes, moved that the resolution carried at Newton in October last should be rescinded, and that Mr. Watts should carry his tramway across the Kingsteignton road from his Clay-works, in accordance with a resolution of the trustees at a meeting held for the special purpose in 1851 Totnes. Mr. C. Wills seconded the motion. A letter from Mr. Pinsent, of Greenham (sic), was read, stating that from living near the spot, he had found the tramway a very great evil, having at one time the spring of his carriage broken, whilst other accidents had arisen from it, and in one instance the death of a person. Mr. Whiteway seconded this amendment. …
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GRO1036 Devonport: Thomas Pinsent: 1782 – 1872