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LOWER SUTTON FARM : SOUTH MILTON : CO. DEVON

Catalogue reference: DEV 3

What’s it about?

This record is about the LOWER SUTTON FARM : SOUTH MILTON : CO. DEVON dating from 1588-1962.

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Reference
DEV 3
Title
LOWER SUTTON FARM : SOUTH MILTON : CO. DEVON
Date
1588-1962
Description

Family papers relating to the Elliot family, together with related families of Arthur, Fletcher and Luscombe.

Arrangement

Summary of classes

1 CORRESPONDENCE

2 ACCOUNTS

3 CATALOGUES

4 CERTIFICATES

5 COMMISSIONS

6 COURT RECORDS

7 DEEDS

8 DIARIES AND JOURNALS

9 LISTS AND INVENTORIES

10 MAPS AND PLANS

11 NEWSPAPER CUTTINGS

12 NOTES

13 PETITIONS

14 PHOTOGRAPHS

15 POLICIES

16 PRINTS, DRAWINGS AND PAINTINGS

17 REPORTS

18 VALUATIONS

19 WILLS

20 SUNDRY PAPERS

21 PRINTED MATERIAL

Related material

<p>For additional deposits see also DEV 3A, B and C</p>

Held by
Museum of English Rural Life
Language
English
Creator(s)
<corpname>Elliot family of South Milton, Devon</corpname>
Physical description
21 series
Access conditions

There are various conditions attached to the use of these papers; applications should therefore in the first place be made to the Archivist

Immediate source of acquisition

Presented on temporary loan by J. Elliot, Laylands Farm, St Leonards, Tring, co. Hertford 1967 April. (Acc no 395)

Administrative / biographical background

The donor's family has been associated with the village of South Milton for some 400 years and Lower Sutton Farm (originally called Corbyns Place) remained in its possesion from 1696 until 1958, when it was sold by the donor's father, the Rev. Edward Arthur Elliot, to C. Rogers who was then the tenant. Lower Sutton Farm was once part of a larger property held by the family and included Collicot Farm on the western edge of South Milton. Members of the Elliot family have been buried there since 1700

Farm size etc.

Owner-occupied and leased at various periods

Record URL
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LOWER SUTTON FARM : SOUTH MILTON : CO. DEVON