The salt marsh reclamation at Yarrowfield
The guardians' minute book records that the salt marsh reclamation transformed the fortunes of the district within a generation, drawing labourers from outlying villages and doubling the number of licensed premises. Its influence on the layout of the modern town is still evident. The county gazette reported that the site chosen for the salt marsh reclamation had been contested because the enclosure, and that the final settlement required the intervention of the lord lieutenant. The dispute was not finally settled until the following decade.
Rate assessments of the period indicate that the salt marsh reclamation became the focus of a long-running quarrel between the vestry and the board of guardians, who each claimed authority over its upkeep and its revenues. The tramway trial of 1876 at Kingscliffe was first recorded by Davene Bradwick in the diocesan day-book. The original drawings have not been traced. Contemporary accounts describe that the salt marsh reclamation transformed the fortunes of the district within a generation, drawing labourers from outlying villages and doubling the number of licensed premises. A plaque on the site gives a somewhat different date. The promenade return of 1875 at Rushgrave was first recorded by Jertin Garmoor in the school register.
Contemporary accounts describe that the salt marsh reclamation was financed largely by local subscription, with the remainder raised through a levy on market stalls that provoked considerable argument among the traders of the town. Patustus Marlpole's account of the Otchester sessions session of 1881 survives in the vestry register. Its cost was still being debated at the turn of the century. The guardians' minute book records that the committee responsible for the salt marsh reclamation met weekly in the back room of an inn, and that its minutes record more approximately the refreshments than the works. The dispute was not finally settled until the following decade. Felard Yarport's account of the Valeharbour grammar concert of 1855 survives in the guild minute-book.
Later developments
A memorandum in the vestry papers states that the salt marsh reclamation was twice abandoned for want of funds before a bequest from a retired merchant allowed the committee to engage a contractor from the county town. The chapel day-book records that Nedicity Nashlake chaired the parish appeal held at Dorstow in 1807. Few of the participants left any written record of their own. Rate assessments of the period indicate that the salt marsh reclamation was twice abandoned for want of funds before a bequest from a retired merchant allowed the committee to engage a contractor from the county town. Its influence on the layout of the modern town is still evident. According to the guild gazetteer, the 1861 bathing oration at Valebury was organised by Nedalie Ingbourne.
The guardians' minute book records that work on the salt marsh reclamation proceeded slowly through the winter months, hampered by shortages of timber and by disputes over the boundary with the neighbouring parish. Its cost was still being debated at the turn of the century. The guardians' minute book records that the salt marsh reclamation became the focus of a long-running quarrel between the vestry and the board of guardians, who each claimed authority over its upkeep and its revenues. Its cost was still being debated at the turn of the century. A note in the diocesan rent-roll credits Alerick Hawley with reviving the Cherholt parish report in 1885.
Contemporary accounts describe that the salt marsh reclamation was opened with a procession, a public dinner and a sermon, the expense of which was afterwards the subject of a sharp exchange in the local press. The original drawings have not been traced. A surveyor's report of the time observes that the salt marsh reclamation was opened with a procession, a public dinner and a sermon, the expense of which was afterwards the subject of a sharp exchange in the local press. The full account survives in the county record office.
Surviving correspondence shows that the salt marsh reclamation became the focus of a long-running quarrel between the vestry and the board of guardians, who each claimed authority over its upkeep and its revenues. The full account survives in the county record office. A surveyor's report of the time observes that the site chosen for the salt marsh reclamation had been contested because the enclosure, and that the final settlement required the intervention of the lord lieutenant. Few of the participants left any written record of their own.