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Latitude: 50.9952 / 50°59'42"N
Longitude: -4.5335 / 4°32'0"W
OS Eastings: 222312
OS Northings: 124806
OS Grid: SS223248
Mapcode National: GBR K2.KRC2
Mapcode Global: FRA 16DH.1N7
Plus Code: 9C2QXFW8+3J
Entry Name: Remains of Pier Wall
Listing Date: 19 June 1989
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1104452
English Heritage Legacy ID: 91244
ID on this website: 101104452
Location: Torridge, Devon, EX39
County: Devon
District: Torridge
Civil Parish: Hartland
Traditional County: Devon
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Devon
Church of England Parish: Hartland St Nectan
Church of England Diocese: Exeter
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HARTLAND
HARTLAND QUAY
Remains of Pier Wall
GV
II
Pier wall. Originally built in late C16 by William Abbott inheritor of Hartland
Abbey and its estate, what now survives however is likely to be the work of one of
several subsequent rebuildings or repairs throughout the C17, C18 and C19 until 2
severe storms in 1887 and 1896 effected the 2 stage destruction of the pier. Large
grounders with stone rubble blocks above.
Hartland Quay was probably at its most prosperous during the C18 and early C19 - in
1841 after the damage to its pier-head during gales its owner Lewis William Buck was
confident enough of the quay's future to raise £1200 for its repair. However in the
2nd half of the C19 the fortunes of the quay declined, augmented by the arrival of
the railway in Bideford in 1855 and the climate of agricultural depression. When
therefore further considerable damage was suffered in 1887 Sir George Stuckley
refused to rebuild, merely re-facing the stump of the pier and the remainder was
swept away in 1896. Already business in the Quay had ceased, with the last ship,
the Rosamund Jane, departing in 1893.
Source: Hartland Quay - The Story of a Vanished Port: M. Nix and M. R. Myers
Listing NGR: SS2231224806
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