The Branscombe Project

Articles on Local History

An occasional series of articles on local history. Click the links to read the papers (where available).

Unpublished papers by John Torrance

• Saxon Branscombe

• Cider as Wages

Published papers by John Torrance

• ‘The Landscape of Branscombe in the Early Fourteenth Century’ in J. Bliss, C. Jago & E. Maycock (eds) Aspects of Devon History  (Devon History Society, 2012), pp. 37-50

• ‘A Lost Chapel in Colyton’ Devon & Cornwall Notes & Queries, vol. XL, pt. IV, 2008, pp. 95-103

• ‘Raddis Lane: what’s in a name?’ The Devon Historian, vol. 77, 2008, pp. 51-66

• ‘Raddis Lane: Politics and Landscape’, Rep. Trans. Dev. Ass. Advmt Sci., vol. 141, 2009, pp 237-268

• ‘Branscombe 1280-1340: An East Devon Manor before the Black Death’, The Devon Historian, vol. 81, 2012, pp. 67-80

• ‘Branscombe 1280-1340: A Medieval Landscape’, The Devon Historian, vol. 82, 2013, pp. 35-50

• Waterwheel (Oversteps Books, 2013, poetry)

• ‘The Ousting of Tomkins: a Struggle for Power in a Victorian Village’, Rep. Trans. Dev. Assoc. Advmt Schi., vol. 148, 2016, pp. 207-226

• ‘Medieval place-names in a landscape: Branscombe’, Journal of English Place-name Society, vol. 50, 2018, pp 75-96

• ‘A Hydraulic Landscape in Branscombe’, The Devon Historian, vol. 89,  2019, pp. 35-48

• Under the Wave (Fore Street Press, 2021, poetry)