Chudleigh Ploughing Match: … The twelfth annual meeting of the Chudleigh District Agricultural Society was held on Tuesday Chudleigh. The parishes comprising the district are Chudleigh, Hennock, Trusham, Ashton, Christow, Ideford, and Bovey Tracey, and the Society holds its annual meeting at each place in turn. Fine weather favoured the outdoor competition. The ploughing took place in two fields in the occupation of Mr. Perrott, three-quarters of a mile from the town. The entries for ploughing were fully up to the average except that, in previous years, the classes for boys did not fill well. The judges for ploughing were Messrs. J. Cornish (Bishopsteignton), J. Woolland (Kennford), and J. H. Underhill (Bishopsteignton); and for farms and roots Messrs. J. White (Ashcombe), F. Firth (Widecombe), and Pinsent (Doddiscombsleigh); For Lord Clifford’s butter prizes, sixteen competed for large dairies and ten in the small. It was a circumstance much noted that the whole of the first prize-takers ploughing used the machines of Messrs. Eddy, of Kennford: The arrangements of the meeting were carried out in admirable order by the Committee, with Mr. A. C. Loveys, of Moreton, as Hon. Secretary. Following is the PRIZE LIST …
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GRO0412 Hennock: Henry Pinsent: 1844 – 1894