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Aerial Shots

CHG has a collection¹ of aerial pictures of Chudleigh, many taken in 1967. Click on a thumbnail to see a larger version. You can move to previous or next or run a slideshow.

1948 31 Old Exeter Street	1948 Aerial Town (1)	1948 Aerial Town (2)	1948 Aerial Town (3)	1948 Air View of Chudleigh
1967 The Square (Eastside)	1967 The Square (Westside)	1972 Town Centre	1980s Town Centre (Colomb)	1994 Aerial Church
1994 Town Centre	1995 Mill Hill Cottage	Abigail, Woodway Street	Amberly (formerly Porcombe)	Beechwood
Bryn	Burrows Farm	Cedar Gables (L) Ambleside (R)	Church (1)	Church (2)
Clifford Arms Hotel (1)	Clifford Arms Hotel (2)	Coburg (1)	Coburg (2)	Court Ralla (L) Fairlawn, Engledene, Cedar Gables (R)
Crammers	Farmborough House	Filleigh	Gas Works	Gordon Lodge
Grealey Quarry	Harcombe Cottage	Harcombe Cross	Heightley Manor	Highwayman's Haunt (1)
Highwayman's Haunt (2)	Hurst House	Kerswell, Walmsley	Kerswell	Kitts Close
Lawell Lodge and Wisteria Cottage	Little Churchills	Little Hill	Lower Harcombe Farm	Mistletoe Farm
New Exeter Street	Oakfield	Oxencombe Farm	Pipe Works, Trusham	Race Course Cafe
Rivendell	Saffron Close	Spring Gardens	Springfield	Telegraph Hill
The Lawn	The Retreat, Old Exeter Street	Timber Hill	Toll House, Old Haldon Hill (1)	Toll House, Old Haldon Hill (2)
Upcott	Waddon Brakes near Thorns Cross	Waddon House	Waddon Lodge	Warren Cottage
Westwoods	1948 31 Old Exeter Street	1948 Aerial Town (1)	1948 Aerial Town (2)	1948 Aerial Town (3)
1948 Air View of Chudleigh	1967 The Square (Eastside)	1967 The Square (Westside)	1972 Town Centre	1980s Town Centre (Colomb)
1994 Aerial Church	1994 Town Centre	1995 Mill Hill Cottage	Abigail, Woodway Street	Amberly (formerly Porcombe)
Beechwood	Bryn	Burrows Farm	Cedar Gables (L) Ambleside (R)	Church (1)
Church (2)	Clifford Arms Hotel (1)	Clifford Arms Hotel (2)	Coburg (1)	Coburg (2)
Court Ralla (L) Fairlawn, Engledene, Cedar Gables (R)	Crammers	Farmborough House	Filleigh	Gas Works
Gordon Lodge	Grealey Quarry	Harcombe Cottage	Harcombe Cross	Heightley Manor
Highwayman's Haunt (1)	Highwayman's Haunt (2)	Hurst House	Kerswell, Walmsley	Kerswell
Kitts Close	Lawell Lodge and Wisteria Cottage	Little Churchills	Little Hill	Lower Harcombe Farm
Mistletoe Farm	New Exeter Street	Oakfield	Oxencombe Farm	Pipe Works, Trusham
Race Course Cafe	Rivendell	Saffron Close	Spring Gardens	Springfield
Telegraph Hill	The Lawn	The Retreat, Old Exeter Street	Timber Hill	Toll House, Old Haldon Hill (1)
Toll House, Old Haldon Hill (2)	Upcott	Waddon Brakes near Thorns Cross	Waddon House	Waddon Lodge
Warren Cottage	Westwoods

¹ Undated images are from 1967 originals held by Mr Frank Chessum, scanned with kind permission.
The original image labelled "Colomb" is held by Mrs Frances Colomb, scanned with kind permission. The exact date is unknown, but from known changes, we believe it to have been taken most likely sometime between 1980 & 1985.
If you think any views are incorrectly identified, please get in touch via the Contact page.

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Chudleigh Then & Now

GHG and the Chudleigh Camera Club (CCC) combined forces to mount an exhibition in the church during 2016's Chudfest Week. Entitled Chudleigh Then & Now, CHG selected over 60 old photos of Chudleigh from the archives² – ranging from 1857 to the 1989 – and challenged CCC to take a modern picture of the self-same view point. While many scenes have barely changed in the last 100 years, several buildings have been demolished and re-built which took some detective work for the modern photographer to stand in the exact same place in 2016! Pairs of photos are arranged (mostly) in year order of the original, where known (or our best guess)³. Click on a thumbnail to see a larger version – try to spot what's different and what has barely changed! You can move to previous or next or run a slideshow.

1809-2014 Map	1857-2016 Old Town Hall & New Town Hall	1889-2016 The Globe
1891-2016 Church Hill snow & Fore Street	1891-2016 87 and 88 Fore Street & The Square	1891-2016 Fore Street
1891-2016 Church gate	1893-2016 The Parade	1895-2016 Parade and Coburg
1899-2016 The Square	1900-2016 Stooke Waddon	1900-2016 Coburg
1900-2016 Tanner Fore Street & Harvey's Fore Street	1901-2016 69 Old Exeter Street	1905-2016 Bridgelands
1905-2016 Town Mills	1906-2016 Clifford Arms & The Phoenix	1906-2016 Ship Hotel & The Ship
1908-2016 Town Hall	1910-2016 New Exeter Street	1910-2016 8 Fore Street
1912-2016 Old Exeter Street	1918-2016 Congregational & Woodway Street	1919-2016 2 Oldway
1919-2016 The Square	1920-2016 Fore Street	1922-2016 The Square
1923-2016 The Square	1929-2016 Kings Arms, Clifford Street & Wemyer Clifford Street	1930-2016 s Rowells Farm & The Highwayman's Haunt
1934-2016 Wood Way & Woodway Street	1934-2016 Mount Pleasant	1934-2016 27 Old Exeter Street & Lloyds The Square
1937-2016 Old Exeter Street	1940-2016 PC Robert Taylor & Modern PC	1946-2016 Church School & Library
1949-2016 Old Exeter Street	1951-2016 The Parade and Garage	1955-2016 Swanston House
1960-2016 31 Old Exeter Street & Tower House	1960-2016 Rocklands School & The Rocklands	1961-2016 Harcombe Garage
1962-2016 Lion Demolition & Ex-Lion garden, The Square	1965-2016 Baptist Church & Brookfield Court	1973-2016 53 New Exeter Street
1989-2016 The Square	19xx-2016 Baptist Chapel & Old Baptist Chapel	19xx-2015 Chudleigh team and Pavilion & Chudleigh Cricket Club
19xx-2016 59 New Exeter Street	19xx-2016 Old Exeter Street	19xx-2016 Church
19xx-2016 Western House	1891-2010 Fore Street - snow	19xx-2010 Ugbrooke House
19xx-2016 The Old House	19xx-2016 Glen Cottage	19xx-2016 Old Exeter Street
19xx-2015 Chudleigh from the Ridge	19xx-2016 Lawell House	1910-2014 Interior of Parish Church
19xx-2016 The Parade	1915-2016 The Parade
1957-2016 Railway Station & A38	T/L: This 1957 shot of Chudleigh station from the road bridge might be one of the last before the line closed to passenger traffic on 9 June 1958. T/R: Many people think that the A38 by-pass (opened in 1973) was built over the station. They are mistaken. B/L: People who think they know better say that the site is now under slip road. They are also mistaken. B/R: In fact the site is now buried in the undergrowth some 30m further to the south between the slip road and the River Teign where the brick-built overbridge and traces of the track-bed still exist below the spot where this photo was taken.

² Old photos from the collections of the History Group, Amenity Society, Chris Webb and Doug Hellier Laing. New photos by Alan Winn, Simon Farrimond, Dave Offiler and the Cricket Club.
³ Those with unknown dates are assigned '19xx'.

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