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16 Nov 1481 Robert and Elizabeth Pomeroy of Ingsdon settled in tail on their eldest son Sinclair and the Manor of Ingsdon on themselves for their lives..
16 Nov 1481 Robert and Elizabeth Pomeroy of Ingsdon settled in tail on their eldest son Sinclair and the Manor of Ingsdon on themselves for their lives..
In 1500 Robert settled on his 2nd son John, a property called Barnes or Burns Place at Over Ingsdon- Robert died in 1517
Burn Farm is adjacent to Ingsdon Manor Estate - literally on the other side of the lane
Today it has renamed itself to Ingsdon House .
This was probably the property given to ensure 2nd son John's position & income in the primogenitor inheritance rules and which Hugh Pomeroy litigated over - more here
In 1500 Robert settled on his 2nd son John, a property called Barnes or Burns Place at Over Ingsdon- Robert died in 1517
Burn Farm is adjacent to Ingsdon Manor Estate - literally on the other side of the lane
Today it has renamed itself to Ingsdon House .
This was probably the property given to ensure 2nd son John's position & income in the primogenitor inheritance rules and which Hugh Pomeroy litigated over - more here
A2A search Ingsdon Engdon
Reference: 1262M/E/29/72
Description: Agreement between Hugh Fortescue and John Rolle of the one part and Thomas Pomeroy of Engesdon of the other concerning debts on the Barton of Ingsdon, Ilsington
Date: 1653
Held by: Devon Archives and Local Studies Service (South West Heritage Trust), not available at The National Archives Language: English Reference: C 2/Eliz/P14/10
Description: Pomerye v St Clere.
Plaintiffs: Hugh Pomerye esq.
( NOTE- Hugh senior died 1603 whereas Hugh youngest son of Richard Bb 1615 married Francis Vaughan & daughter Welthen Bb Bickington 28 Jan 1648 )
Defendants: Gawen StClere, Sampson Letheby, Barbare Letheby his wife, John Keymer and Thomas Jones.
Subject: To quiet plaintiff's possession. (should that read Quit ?)
The manor of Engesdon, otherwise called the manor of Over Engesdon [Higher Ingsdon], in the parish of Ilsington, and divers lands, in Ilsington, Devon, the inheritance of plaintiff. ( ?)
Document type: [Pleadings] Date: Between 1558 and 1603
Held by: The National Archives, Kew Legal status: Public Record
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description
Subjects:Manors, Litigation Reference: C 78/102/12
Description: Pomerye v Pomerye. Date 1599
Plaintiffs: Christopher Pomerye of Waltham Abbey, Essex, son of John Pomerye. Defendants: Hugh Pomerye, son of John Pomerye.
Subject: Possession of a messuage and two farlings of land called Burne Place in Over Engesdone [Ingsdon, ) parish of Ilsington], Devon.
Date of decree: 26 June 41 Eliz. Date: 26 June 1599
Waltham Abbey is home of the Royal Armoury where gunpowder production began on in the 1660's after the Civil Wars. After the Crown acquired it in 1787 it became one of the world’s most important centres for the understanding and manufacture of gunpowder.
The Armoury | Waltham Abbey Royal Gunpowder Mills
A document revealed there there was also a Burns Place or the Burning House, close to the village of Ilsington.
Ingsdon Manor Estate is separated from the village of Ilsington by a wide valley, through which the main road from Exeter to Plymouth ran with Ashburton a way stop for the much later coaches.
There were Iron Mines on the Ilsington side of the valley at Hayto & mining is believed to have taken place here from before the 16th century, & one of most productive of the iron mines in Devon was in Ilsington parish.
The mines to the Bovey road near Blue Burn had an elaborate tramway and ore was carted along this .... there is considerable evidence of earthworks, old burning house near Ilsington and and entrance to Haytor Iron mine.
The Burning House or Burns Place was where iron ore was processed by being heated in ovens to extract the ore from the granite.
ILSINGTON SX 77 NE 3/274 Burning House in Middlecott - Wood, about 400 metres south-west of Middlecott Farmhouse -listed grade II
(English Heritage On-Line Source).Listed building 1240497
Burning House seen above . Probably mid to late C19. Built of large dressed granite blocks, except for part of the western end which is of granite and slatestone rubble; red brick dressings and internal finishings. Roof covered with corrugated iron. Rectangular 3-cell plan, the middle cell rising the full height of the building and having a doorway and 2 windows on the south side
LOCAL HISTORY Associated with the immediate area
Hay Tor Granite Tramway . In the C19th George Templar built this tramway – 8.5 miles (13.7km) long, with a fall of 1,300ft (396m) – to take stone from Hay Tor quarry, by horse drawn sledges , down off Dartmoor to the canal and thence to Teignmouth
The granite was used for significant buildings in London such as the Old London Bridge, now in Arizona, Nelson Column, part of the Embankment , part of The Houses of Parliament, Covent Garden and the British Museum.
In 1820 Templar built a quay in Teignmouth, New Quay , to facilitate the transfer of the stone from barges used to carry it from the head of the estuary to ships for onward transport .
Burning House Above in 2017 , a ruin, but still standing and recently sold with an attached wood.
This industrial building was built to process rocks and produce ore . There were furnaces in the east and west cells with storerooms above in which ore was kept. Each furnace has a segmental brick vault containing a hopper through which the iron ore was shovelled from the storeroom above.
The fire was positioned against the gable wall with an external access to the north and an ash pit below. Below the furnace was a cooling chamber also with external access. Two flues led out from the furnaces to a detached stack to the north.’
The Haytor Iron Mine was worked first at the surface and later by adit ( a big hole ) and was a long established and relatively large mine by Devon standards, producing a mixture of brown haematite and magnetite, the latter much favoured by steel producers.
Mining here is believed to have been taking place by the 16th century, although large scale production is only recorded from the early 19th century
Atlas Burning House – also known as The Albion Burning House, is just outside the village of Ilsington. Firstly associated with an old mine which in its time was known as both The Albion Mine and The Atlas Mine.
Latterly in its working life the Atlas Mine was worked independently and jointly with nearby Albion and Smallcombe mines. Finally closing around 1920
Ref.: Dana 6:13. Ref: Richardson P.H.G. (1991) Mines of Dartmoor & the Taymar Valley after 1913, Devon Books, Tiverton.
The Burn House
Seen above in 2017 , a ruin, but still standing and recently sold with an attached wood.
This was an industrial building built to process rocks and produce ore . Made of large dressed granite blocks, except for part of the western end which is built of granite and slatestone rubble, it has red brick dressings and internal finishings and a corrugated iron roof. It has a rectangular 3 cell plan with a central room and two furnaces either side. There were furnaces in the east and west cells with e storerooms above in which ore was kept. Each furnace has a segmental brick vault containing a hopper through which the iron ore was shovelled from the storeroom above.
The fire was positioned against the gable wall with an external access to the north and an ash pit below. Below the furnace was a cooling chamber also with external access. Two flues led out from the furnaces to a detached stack to the north.’
More below
13 mines in the Ashburton and Buckfast area.
Ilsington Mining.
20 Feb 1018 - ongoing
In medieval times Dartmoor was mined for alluvial tin digging it out of the river valleys of the open moorland. The processes of removing the ore, extracting it from the rock, by crushing it, before smelting it over a wood fire to produce ingots of tin. This crude method produced ingots of finer quality than could be obtained by mechanical means several hundred years later. Once they had accumulated sufficient the ingots were carried off the moor on pack mules and taken to Ashburton where a corner or coyne was cut off for assay.
Ashburton was one of Devon stannary towns where refined tin was checked for quality, weighed and assessed for the payment of duty before being stamped.
1500 AD Robert Pomeroy of Ingsdon in Ilsington parish gave to John Pomeroy ,younger son by his wife Elizabeth Beaumont, received from his father Barns Place or Burns Place, the burning house of Ilsington Mine on Haytor.
The Atlas Burning House –is just outside the village of Ilsington. The Burning House was associated with an old mine which in its time was known as both The Albion Mine and The Atlas Mine.
Due to an igneous intrusion the area around Ilsington has been left the legacy of various mineral lodes which include; tin, iron, lead, zinc, copper, and manganese.
At one time there were numerous small mines dotted around the area, one of which was The Atlas Mine.
Albion Burning House is built of large dressed granite blocks, except for part of the western end which is built of granite and slatestone rubble. It has red brick dressings and internal finishing and a corrugated iron roof. It has a rectangular 3 cell plan with a central room and two furnaces either side. Above the furnaces in the east and west cells were storerooms in which ore was kept. Each furnace has a segmental brick vault containing a hopper through which the iron ore was shovelled from the storeroom above. The fire was positioned against the gable wall with an external access to the north and an ash pit below. Below the furnace was a cooling chamber also with external access. Two flues led out from the furnaces to a detached stack to the north.’, (English Heritage On-Line Source).
notes taken from Ilsington Mines. Mines of Devon; AK Hamilton Jenkin; Landmark Books
A lead/silver mine in Silverwood East of Ilsington. There are extensive tailings dumps with ruins of several buildings and possibly the wheelpit.
Silver Brook Mines lead & zink - southwest of Ilsington,
had a 200ft adit or horizontal passage leading into a mine for the purposes of access or drainage.
Smith's Wood about 1.25 miles southwest of Ilsington, mining Cassiterite, TIN & COPPER
Silver Wood Mine produced lead and silver - 15 1/2 fathoms or almost 100 feet deep, it was apparently abandoned in an emergency the tools & equipment left behind; in 1852 a 20" cylinder pumping engine was installed - the 1st steam mine engine in the Ashburton area;
Atlas (approx. 1.3 km; TIN & HAEMATITE)
Smallacombe Mine (approx. 1.4 km; LIMONITE & MAGNETITE)
Sigford Consols (approx. 1.7 km; TIN, COPPER & PYRITE)
Haytor Mine (approx. 2.1 km; IRON ORE & MAGNETITE) This was a long established and relatively large mine by Devon standards, producing a mixture of brown haematite and magnetite, the latter much favoured by steel producers.
Reid, C., 1912, Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Great Britain. The Geology of Dartmoor, 338 (Monograph). SDV224987.
Three main beds of magnetite interstratified with shales and sandstones, worked to a depth of about 33 meters – 36 meters (18-20 fathoms).
Harris, H., 1968, Industrial Archaeology of Dartmoor, 200 (Monograph). SDV149229.
At SX772770 and SX772773, south of Haytor Vale can be seen a deep cutting and an adit, which formed part of the Haytor Iron Mine, of Haytor Vale amid beech trees.
The most productive of the iron mines were in Ilsington parish.
Mining at Haytor is believed to have been taking place by the 16th century, although large scale production is only recorded from the early 19th century. Worked up until around 1920, firstly as surface workings but later an adit was driven down to increase production producing a mixture of brown haematite and magnetite, the latter much favoured by steel producers. In its late 19th century heyday the mine employed between 70-92 people.
The Haytor Iron Mine. Local people still remember the ore being brought from the mines to the Bovey road near Blue Burn by an elaborate tramway and carted along the road by traction engines.
nearby mines
Crownley Parks (approx. 2.6 km; TIN)
Yarner (approx. 2.6 km; COPPER, PYRITE & ARSENOPYRITE)
Bagtor Mine (approx. 2.7 km; TIN) A tin mine situated on the northern slopes of Bagtor, about 1/4 mile form Bagtor House ( John Ford) & 1.5 miles west of Ilsington, near Bovey Tracey on southeast Dartmoor. The mine worked three lodes from Quickbeam Shaft, Prosper Shaft and Western Shaft.
Bagtor mine was amalgamated along with Crownley Parks, Wheal Somerset, Ilsington and Teignmouth Mines into Hemsworthy Mine (otherwise known as Haytor Consols) between 1851 and 1856.
The only recorded output is of 15 tons of black tin between 1863 and 1865.
Owlacombe and Stormsdown (approx. 3.1 km; ARSENIC, ARSENOPYRITE, TIN & COPPER)
Union Mine, Ashburton (approx. 3.3 km; TIN & PYRITES)
Haytor Mine entrance
below the Haytor blacksmith shop
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