Power on the Bere Peninsula (Plymouth Branch)

Power on the Bere Peninsula: an historical glimpse at the landowners and parliamentarians

A talk to be given by Clive Charlton.

The story of the various lords of the manor who held sway in the land between the rivers Tamar and Tavy.  These and the two MPs that ‘represented’ Bere Alston’s ‘rotten borough’ until the 1830s political reform were a colourful lot.