Trewman’s Exeter Flying Post or Plymouth and Cornish Advertiser: Wednesday July 9th, 1873: issue 5667

Auction Tomorrow: Greenhill Kingsteignto: Mr. R.W. Best, instructed by the executors of the late T. Pinsent, Esquire, will sell by auction on Thursday, July 10th, and followings days the excellent and well made household furniture in great variety, portably w.c. in mahogany, wardrobes, Brussels and Kidderminster carpets, hearth rugs wool mats, superior feather beds, bolsters and pillows, blankets and counterpanes, japanned shower, hip and sponge bath, brilliant plate chimney glasses, ornamental iron fenders, steel fire sets, oil paintings and engravings 300 volumes of books, mounted telescope, cabinet piano in rosewood case (by …) stuffed birds in cases and under shades, oriental china, richly cut table glass, handsome gold and enamelled dinner and dessert sets, timepiece, eight day clock in case, silver plate and electro-plated goods, patent mangle and washing machine, garden and summer house seats and table, garden vases and pedestals, greenhouse and hothouse plants in great variety, garden tools, seakale and flower pots garden frames and sashes, engine and hose, roller, carpenter’s bench and tools, ladders, several bound volumes of the Morning Chronicle and large pile of newspapers and periodicals, corn tin stoves, a four wheeled covered car, with lamps, cushions, drag and fittings complete, and numerous useful items. Catalogues may be had of the Auctioneer, Queen Street Road, Exeter, or of Mr. Prowse, Queen Street, Newton Abbot, on and after Monday, July 7th, on view on the morning of sale after nine o’clock; sale each day at twelve o’clock. Queen Street Road, Exeter, June 26th, 1873.

[see also Exeter and Plymouth Gazette: Friday 4th July 1873]


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Trewman’s Exeter Flying Post or Plymouth and Cornish Advertiser: Wednesday June 25th, 1873: issue 5665

Greenhill, Kingsteignton: Mr. R.W. Best, instructed by the executors of the late T. Pinsent, Esquire, will sell, by auction, on Thursday, July 3rd, and following day, the excellent and well made household furniture in great variety, Brussels and Kidderminster carpets, hearth rugs, wool mats, superior feather beds, bolsters and pillows, damask and moreen window draperies, brilliant plate chimney glasses, ornamental iron fenders, steel fire-sets, oil paintings, engravings, telescope, mounted on pedestal, cabinet piano, stuffed birds in cases and under glass shades, a large quantity of oriental china, richly cut table glass, handsome gold and enamelled dinner and dessert sets, timepieces, eight-day clock in case, silver plate and electroplated goods, patent mangle and washing machine, garden tools plants in pots and numerous effects. Descriptive catalogues may be had at the offices of the Auctioneer, Queen Street Road, Exeter, on and after Monday, June 30th: On view the morning of sale after nine o’clock. Sale each day at one o’clock: Queen Street Road, Exeter June 19th, 1873:

[see also Western Times: Friday 20th June 1873]


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Trewman’s Exeter Flying Post or Plymouth and Cornish Advertiser: Wednesday September 18th, 1872: issue 5625

Tuesday, October 8th, at Greenhill House, Kingsteignton, one mile from Newton Abbot, five bullocks, an excellent pony, three pigs, corn and hay in rick, grass, apples, carriages, and harness. Hack and side machines, circular saw and bench, husbandry implements and tools, cider and casks, empty casks, pound and other kieves, cider cloths, fagot and hard wood, iron hurdles etc. etc. late the property of Thomas Pinsent, deceased: Sale at two o’clock punctually. The whole fully described in handbills to be obtained from the Auctioneers: Dated Chagford, September 6th, 1872.

[and subsequent issues and Western Times, Friday 20th September 1872 and Friday 27th September 1872]


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Trewman’s Exeter Flying Post or Plymouth and Cornish Advertiser: Wednesday July 17th, 1872: issue 5616

South Devon: Messrs. Hooper will sell by auction at the Globe Hotel, Newton Abbot, on Tuesday the 6th day of August 1872, at two o’clock, by order of the trustees of the will of the late Thomas Pinsent, Esq., of Greenhill, in the parish of Kingsteignton, Devon, deceased, the under mentioned capital messuages, farms and lands. Lot 1: The freehold messuages and farms called “Higher and Lower Goodstone” situate in the parish of Ashburton, in the County of Devon, adjoining the turnpike road leading from Ashburton to Exeter and Newton Abbot, containing together by tithe measurement, with the extensive and valuable plantations thereon, 298a 3r 12p. The farms are now in the occupation of Messrs. Richard Mann and William Mann, whose tenancy will determine on Michaelmas next. Lot 2: A freehold messuage and farm called “Potworthy and Bridge” situate in the parish of North Bovey in the County of Devon, containing by tithe measurement 136a 3r 36p, comprising valuable plantations thereon. These premises are now in the occupation of Mr. John Coleridge, whose tenancy will determine at Michaelmas next. Lot 3: Two farms called “Higher and Lower Yate” now occupied as one farm, situate in the parish of Torbryan in the County of Devon, containing together by tithe measurement 91a 3r 9p, now in the occupation of Mr. Jeffery Elliott, as tenant thereof, whose tenancy will determine at Michaelmas next. Also, in the following or such other lots as may be determined on at the time of sale, the under mentioned freehold cottages and fields, situate in the parish of Kingsteignton in the County of Devon: [Listing Lot No., No. on Tithe Commutation Map, Description, State of Cultivation and Quantity] 

Lot 4: 1097: Cottages and Gardens, 0a 0r 20p

Lot 5: 1095: Cotty Meadow, Meadow, 0a 3r 0p

Lot 6: 713: New Park “Gildons”, Arable, 2a 0r 6p

Lot 7: 772: New Park “Greenhill”, Arable, 1a 0r 6p

Lot 8: 771: Football, Arable, 2a 3r 25p

Lot 9: 838: Gate Treo, Arable 2a 3r 20p

Lot 10: 999: Forehead, Arable 4a 3r 17p

Lot 11: 1017: Higher Ware Cross, Arable, 2a 0r 30p

Lot 12: 1112: Brambleway, Arable, 1a 0r 35p

Lot 13: 1110: Ware Cross, Arable, 2a 0r 13p

Lot 14: 1106: Lower Ware Cross, Arable, 2a 2r 3p

Lot 15: 1131: Stockbridge, Pasture, 0a 3r 31p

Lot 16: 1138: Gildon’s Pens, Arable, 1a 2r 18p

Lot 17: 1183: Gildon’s Rolls, Arable, 1a 1r 38p

Lot 18: 1124: Great Salcombe, Arable, 7a 1r 16p

Lot 19: 1009: Stockacre, Arable, 3a 1r 22p

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Lot 20: 1006: Brownslade, Arable, 4a 0r 10p

Lot 20: 1007: Quarry Adjoining, Arable, 0a 0r 37p

Lot 20: 1003: Brownstone Coppice, Arable, 1a 0r 5p

[Total 5a 1r 12p]

Also, the following leasehold fields situate in the parish of Kingsteignton: 

Lot 21: 1162: Adam’s Pens, Pasture, 2a 3r 8p

Lot 21: 1182: Adam’s Rolls, Pasture, 2a 0r 18p

[Total 4a 3r 26p]

These premises are held by lease from Lord Clifford for 99 years, determinable on the decease of Mr. William Carrell Adams, aged about 63, under the yearly rent of 3s and 25s for a heriot on the death of the life. With this lot will be sold a Policy of Insurance in the West of England Insurance Office, dated 1839, on the life of the said W.C. Adams, for £300 (with the bonuses declared therein), under the yearly premium of £7 7s. 

Lot 22: 1163: Townsend Meadow, Pasture, 2a 3r 4p 

Held by lease from Lord Cifford for 99 years determinable on the death of Mr. George Pidsley Waye, aged about 64; under the yearly rent of 2s and 12s for a heriot on the decease of life. ….. Lot 23: All that dwelling house and courtlage in Newton Abbot, situated in East-Street, now in the occupation of Mr. French, ironmonger, as tenant thereof. These premises are held by lease from the feoffees of Wolborough to the late Thomas Pinsent, Esq., for 99 years, determinable on the decease of Mrs. Elizabeth Adams, now aged about 37, under the yearly rent of 20s and covenants to repair. The tenants will show the properties on application to them. Printed particulars, with maps annexed, may be obtained three weeks previous to the day of sale at the Globe Hotel, or the Newton Brewery, Newton Abbot; of the Auctioneers, Chagford, or of Messrs. Terrell and Petherick, Solicitors, 8 Southernhay, Exeter: Dated this 10th day of July 1872.

[see also in subsequent editions]

[see also Western Times: Friday 19th July 1872 and Friday 26th July 1872]


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Western Times: Friday 26th April 1872

Preliminary Announcement: In the course of the Summer will be offered for sale, Higher and Lower Goodstone, in the parish of Ashburton; Higher and Lower Yate, in the parish of Torbrian, Potworthy and Bridge in the parish of North Bovey, and sundry fields in the parish of Kingsteington, late the property of Thos. Pinsent, esq., deceased.


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Exeter and Plymouth Gazette: Thursday 4th January 1872

Deaths: Pinsent – Jan. 2, at Templestowe, Torquay, Thomas Pinsent, Esq., of Greenhill, Newton Abbot, aged 90. 


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North of Wales Chronicle: Saturday June 25th, 1859: issue 1681

Election Petitions: The following is a list, which may be relied upon for its accuracy of the names of the boroughs or counties and of the sureties and the petitioners: … (includes) … Ashburton – Surety, Mr. George Moffatt, of Eaton Square; petitions, Mr Brooking Soadey and Mr. T. Pinsent  

[See also Berkshire Chronicle: Saturday 25th June 1859] 


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Huddersfield Chronicle: Saturday 25th June 1859

Election Petitions: Up to Monday the number of petitions which had been presented amounted to thirty-two … (includes) …  Ashburton: Surety, Mr. George Moffatt, of Eaton Square, petitioners, Mr. Brooking Soadey, and Mr. T. Pinsent … 

[see also North Wales Chronicle: Saturday 25th June 1859 and Berkshire Chronicle of the same date] 


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Western Morning News: Friday 5th November 1886

Note in the West: It is an interesting fact that the year 1887 will not only be the jubilee year of her Majesty’s reign but will also include the jubilee of the incorporation of the borough of Devonport. … (continues) … The list of the Council chosen at the first election shows that Mr. Edward St. Aubyn, father of the present rector of Stoke Damerel, was the first mayor, and his name also appears among the councillors for Stoke Ward. The first alderman were: – Morice Ward, William Greenwood; St. Aubyn Ward, Richard Oliver Blackwell; St. John’s Ward, John Billing; Clowance Ward, William Payne Billing; Tamar Ward, Edward Abbott; Stoke Ward, William Hancock; the other six aldermen being Thomas Pinsent, George Field Somerville, Moses Williams Jeffery, John Norman, Cornelius Tripe, and David Paramore. … (continues) …


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Taunton Courier and Western Advertiser: Wednesday 28th April 1880

Residential Estate in Devonshire: The Greenhill Estate, a freehold residential property, situated on the rising land forming the Northern bank of the river Teign, in the parish of Kingsteignton, was sold by auction, at the Royal Clarence Hotel, Exeter, by Statham Hobson, of the firm of Statham Hobson, Richards, and Co., Coleman Street, London. The property comprises rather more than 40 acres of rich pastureland, pleasure grounds and orchards; with residence surrounded by terrace walks and pleasure gardens laid out at considerable cost; and planted with many valuable trees, shrubs, &c., an Italian garden with fountain; a moat, lake, with islands of local stone; an extensive range of conservatories, large kitchen garden and well-stocked orchards. The stabling and outbuildings are well arranged, substantially built, and sufficiently roomy for a small hunting establishment and stock farm. Many of the buildings having been erected by Pinsent, a former owner, for the accommodation of a small herd of shorthorns. The property is well situated for hunting and fishing and makes a pleasure of many charms well suited for a gentleman fond of rural pursuits. The auctioneer announced that the purchaser might take the timber at £50, or by valuation. The property was put up in one lot and started at £4,000. The bidding lay between Mr Symons (Rendell and Symons, land agents and auctioneers, Totnes) and Mr W. S. Borton, of Totnes, and after a spirited competition the latter became the purchaser at the very satisfactory price of £5,550. There was not a very large attendance.


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