The Feathers Hotel on Budleigh Salterton's High Street Fairlynch Museum ’s Local History Room is a favourite with our many visitors to Budleigh because of the enormous amount of information carefully gathered over the years by the Museum’s researchers. Details about local families, planning applications, the history of Budleigh’s schools, the railway... you can spend hours absorbed in learning fascinating facts about the town’s sewerage systems or the local gasworks. There are of course plenty of local historians working outside the Museum. The Otter Valley Association reports that its OVApedia History section continues to grow, with 150 articles now published online. At http://www.ovapedia.org.uk/index.php?page=James-Wheaton-born-1808-and-his-two-wives---one-in-Newton-Poppleford-and-one-in-Australia-C19 you can find out about the Newton Poppleford man with two wives. Or, less sensationally in the OVApedia files, about the beekeeping former r...
