19th century

Digital scans of legal documents held by John Emptage’s solicitors. The building which later became the Post Office does not appear to have a name, and is defined as a ’copyhold dwellinghouse shop and premises’, and by its boundaries. To the east was the substantial property, now Glenthorne House, which was then owned by John Nathaniel Atkins, who at that time operated the village postal service from a shop attached to that house.

Other names which appear in this batch of documents include William Earwaker, shopkeeper, who appears to have owned the property in 1851, neighbours John Norman Samuel Kille, Mabel Stevens, nee Merrett, to whom a will