Welcome to the website of the Tavistock and District Local History society
(Updated on the 7th January 2012)

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  • THE SOCIETY

    Our society was founded in 1984 and has been going from strength to strength ever since. We organise meetings and visits and run a photographic archive, based in Court Gate on Bedford Square. We have set up a museum which is now a lively and entirely independent charity. If you're not within striking distance you can still obtain our newsletter and publications.




Tavistock

Founded in Saxon times, destroyed by Danish raiders, nurtured by Benedictine monks and then controlled by the Russells and the Dukes of Bedford until the great 1911 sell off, stannary, copper town, industrialised and de-industrialised, this attractive little town under the western ramparts of Dartmoor has a rich and varied history.


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