Newton Abbot: Petty Sessions: Tuesday: Before Admiral Cornish-Bowden (Chairman), and Dr. Atkinson: … Thomas Cornish, farmer of Bishopsteington, and Gilbert Pinsent, farmer, of Kingsteington, were summoned by John Harris, road surveyor to the Newton Abbot Highway Board for neglecting to prune the hedges adjoining land in their occupation. Orders were made on the defendants to comply with the notices served on them and to pay the costs. A second summons against Mr. Pinsent for obstructing the highway be leaving four unbound faggots of wood in the road on the 2nd December was dismissed.
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GRO0369 Hennock: Gilbert Pinsent: 1840 – 1918