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:2018.2175
Summary handwritten notes on Bradford Pool from history society lecture & Burkes encyclopedia of heraldry
ArchiveRef box 57b
ArchiveID CHALH:2018.2268
Summary handwritten notes on history & accounts of Great Week Mine in 1880s
ArchiveRef Box 58
ArchiveID CHALH:2018.2267
Summary Edward 1's Charter to the Tinners of Cornwall and Devon dated 10.1.1305
StartDate 10.1.1305
ArchiveRef Box 58
ArchiveID CHALH:2018.2262
Summary Dartmoor Tinworking Research Group Newsletter No 6 January, 1994 article on Donald Langley Smith former manager of Golden Dagger Tin Mine
PersonName Greeves, Tom
PlaceName Golden Dagger Mine, Postbridge
StartDate 1.1994
ArchiveRef Box 58
ArchiveID CHALH:2018.2254
Summary handwritten notes on Southill leat quoting extract from Crossings Guide to Dartmoor 1912 edition and High Dartmoor - Eric Hemery 1983
ArchiveRef Box 58
ArchiveID CHALH:2018.2247
Summary notes on the history of South Hill, Manor Cottage, Teigncombe Estates including Holy Street Manor and info on stained glass by Hoskins, W.G.
ArchiveRef Box 40
ArchiveID CHALH:2018.2239
Summary map of Great Tree
StartDate 1880
ArchiveRef Box 33
ArchiveID CHALH:2018.2233
Summary photocopy of 1911 census for Drewsteignton and Chagford
StartDate 1911
ArchiveRef Box 33
ArchiveID CHALH:2018.2230
Summary Letter from Tom Greeves to Judith Cosford and Jean Rhodes summarising archaelogical finds on their visit to Rushford Woods, Chagford and Bradford Adit, Shilstone
StartDate 3.6.1989
ArchiveRef Box 58
ArchiveID CHALH:2018.2229
Summary Tinners and Tenants on South-West Dartmoor: A Case Study in Landscape History - a B.A. dissertation on tinworking in South-West Dartmoor, subsquently published by the Devonshire Association.
PersonName Newman, Philip, B.A.
StartDate 12.1994
ArchiveRef Box 58