House on Plymouth Road, Buckfastleigh
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House on Plymouth Road, Buckfastleigh
Image: © Derek Harper Taken: 16 Jan 2009
Tollmarsh, an impressive villa southwest of the town, with classical pediments to many of the windows and rusticated quoins. Built about 1870 for the Hamlyns, important mill-owners in the nineteenth century, "tanners, woolstaplers, serge and blanket manufacturers" http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~valhender/dirtrans/mor1870/buckfastleigh.htm . Further architectural details are at http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=392304&mode=quick
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Image Location
Latitude
50.479278
Longitude
-3.780869