Search the Archive

This is a trial search facility for those archive items that have been re-catalogued onto the Modes Compact database. To date only a portion of the archive has been re-catalogued and this process is ongoing. Data last updated 22 July 2024.

There are seven fields on which the search can be performed:

  • ArchiveID: the unique reference number of the item
  • Summary: a short description of the item – this is the best field to search on
  • PersonName: the primary individual  associated with the item (if there is one)
  • PlaceName: the primary place associated with the item (if there is one)
  • StartDate: if dates are available, the first/beginning date
  • EndDate: if dates are available for a period, the end date
  • ArchiveRef: where the item is in the archive (usually a box number)

The search is by free text only, case insensitive. Blank fields are omitted from the results.

If you require further details about any item(s) please contact us including details of the ArchiveID and ArchiveRef value(s) in your message.

Total Records Found: 4227, showing 10 per page
ArchiveID CHALH:2018.316
Summary list of owners of globe hotel 1883-1891
PlaceName The Globe Hotel
StartDate 1883
EndDate 1923
ArchiveRef Box 36
ArchiveID CHALH:2018.313
Summary news cutting re sale of three crowns inn, evening standard, 19th may 1973
PlaceName Three Crowns Inn
StartDate 19.5.1973
ArchiveRef Box 36
ArchiveID CHALH:2018.314
Summary Dartmoor Chronicles item on Three Crowns Inn, reprint from Exeter & Plymouth Gazette 24.12.1836 to 14.1.1837
PlaceName Chagford
StartDate 1811
ArchiveRef Box 36
ArchiveID CHALH:2018.312
Summary photograph of persons unknown outside three crowns' shop, one on horseback, not dated
PlaceName Three Crowns
ArchiveRef Box 36
ArchiveID CHALH:2018.311
Summary ring o' bells history by Style, Colin, O-Ian 1990 with images
PersonName Style, Colin, O-Ian
StartDate 1.11.1990
ArchiveRef Box 36
ArchiveID CHALH:2018.310
Summary handwritten comments on "A Tour of Chagford's old inns" by Bint, J
PersonName Bint, Jonathan
StartDate 8.5.1989
ArchiveRef Box 36
ArchiveID CHALH:2018.309
Summary poor copy of news item on witch's curse in Express & Echo 23 March 1970 re bottle found by John Meredith under cottage floor
PersonName Meredith, John
StartDate 23.3.1970
ArchiveRef Box 36
ArchiveID CHALH:2018.308
Summary brief history of chagford inns from 1795 written by by Perryman Wallace J.date undisclosed
ArchiveRef Box 36
ArchiveID CHALH:2018.307
Summary Names from Bowdens day books, 1879
StartDate 1879
EndDate 1884
ArchiveRef Box 35
ArchiveID CHALH:2018.306
Summary extract from Bowdens day book, 1873
StartDate 1873
EndDate 1884
ArchiveRef Box 35