 DARTMOOR’S
WAR PRISON & CHURCH
1805—1817
by Elisabeth Stanbrook
and Now only £3.99
Price
£3.99 ISBN 1 870083 45 8
A Dartmoor Prison book with a difference!
For nearly
200 years, information held by the National Archive in London
has been largely ignored. These records, painstaking researched
by the author over a period of several years have, together
with other contemporary accounts, revealed another side to
the Prison’s history, which deserves to be told.
As well as the French and the American prisoners, the author
discusses the actual development of the complex, the workmen,
the staff, the endless supplies of food and materials; subjects
not covered before in any great detail by previous writers.
How much was the ratcatcher paid?
Who harboured
women in their houses?
Who put
china clay in the prisoners bread?
When did
the Plume of Feathers and the Rundlestone Inns first serve
beer?
Which mine
wanted the redundant railway?
When was
the slaughterhouse built?
When did
the first fire engine arrive?
When was
the foul leat dug?
Who were
the American prisoners killed in the ‘Princetown Massacre’?
What was
the income from the turnpike toll gates?
When was
the church actually built, and who really designed it?
All these
questions and many more have now been answered.
Poignant, amusing and thought-provoking eyewitness accounts
reveal a whole community of civilians and militia in this
well-researched and original publication. There is also an
appendix of names (many local), references, a bibliography
and a comprehensive index.
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