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St.Thomas Union Workhouse

Posted by Norman Goodman on 8/10/2020, 11:07 am

Helping someone asking about EXMOUTH Workhouse. I am not sure there was one. There was one for the St.Thomas Union. Parish Guardians did include representatives from Withycombe and Littleham, the two Exmouth parishes.
Is there a source I can go to ref the workhouse?

Thank you for any information or suggestions.

Norman.

Re: St.Thomas Union Workhouse

Posted by Tim Treeby on 8/10/2020, 4:14 pm, in reply to "St.Thomas Union Workhouse"

See http://www.workhouses.org.uk/StThomas/ for info in St Thomas Union Workhouse

Re: St.Thomas Union Workhouse

Posted by Art on 8/10/2020, 1:23 pm, in reply to "St.Thomas Union Workhouse"

From 1834 the workhouse would have been St Thomas. Records are at the Devon Heritage Centre Sowton.
Prior to 1834 about 25% of places in Devon had workhouses. Nearest to Exmouth was Bicton with 6 places or Otterton 20 places. The Parlamentary report of 1777 has details of all these Devon 18C workhouses

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