The next lord of Barnstaple and Lympstone was the famous soldier, Henry de
Tracey, uncle of William de Tracey. During this century two new charters were
granted to Barnstaple, one in 1154 by King Henry 1 and another, in 1189 by
King Richard 1. On April 8th 1253, Henry III drew up a charter confirming
the right of the Dean and Chapter to the free warren in the lands of the manor
of Dawlish, which once belonged to Philip de Furnell. The charter stated that
the rights to the land would be the same as those of the previous Furnells,
provided the land was not within the royal forest. This effectively ended
any dispute over the rights to the land in Dawlish with Exeter Cathedral,
Dawlish at this time was a bit smaller, since in 1200 Roger de Limesia, a
canon of Exeter, decreased the size by 30 acres by giving land to Thomas Maskerel.
Towards the end of the 13th century, Dawlish and Teignmouth had diverged.
Because the cove area provided shelter for ships, Teignmouth at the harbour
and Dawlish at the flat beaches were places to shipbuild away from the Dark
Ages of Scotland at war and the Bubonic Plague which contributed to the breakdown
of the feudal system by means of travel. During the 13th century a chapel
was built on haldon at Lidwell and dedicated to St Mary. In 1329 it became
the scene of the crimes of Robert de Middlecote, a hermit monk who robbed
travellers that rested at the chapel overnight. After the plague, in 1438
the church of St Gregory was rebuilt of stones by the Torre quarry. The church
lasted for some 300 years.
Ashprington, a parish and village seated on a gentle slope near the
confluence of the river Harbourn with the estuary of the Dart River is east
of Totnes. Its parish, which includes the hamlets of Westbourn and Yeatson
and part of that of Tuckenhay, Totnes archdeaconry and rural deanery, and
Coleridge hundred. Painsford, an ancient mansion on the banks of the river
Harbourn has been before, held by the Piperell, Halwill, Somaster, Kellond,
Courtenay, and other families.
The South Hams area is close to the sea with the Slapton Sands, towns
of Kingsbridge, Totnes, Dartmouth and Salcombe, manor farm of Keynedon Barton.
It is recorded in the Domesday Book and has been a working farm for over a
thousand years. It is currently run as a mixed farm with beef, sheep and arable.
The farm is situated in a very sheltered valley, which has a stream running
down through it. This is the derivation of Sherford, (‘sher’ meaning clear
and ‘ford’ stream).
The Bradworthy manor was for centuries owned by distant lords, first the
Devon noblemen, the Pomerais and William, Lord Brewer, then the Mohuns in
Barnstaple (of Somerset) and later the north country family of Stanley, Earls
of Derby. It has always been accepted that the River Torridge springs from
a boggy corner of the lonely and wind swept Woolley Moors, only a few yards
from the Morwenstow-Bradworthy border and actually in the former parish and
is at the boundary between Cornwall and Devon like Hartland.. The River Tamar
is the longest headwater of the River Torridge is Clifford Water which rises
near Slade in Clovelly parish, about one hundred yards from the old boundary
stone marked Bradworthy-Moorwinstow, the seaboard of another Cornish parish
as it encounters Hartland where Meddon is one of the five manors in the Domesday
Book for the Dynham tithe.
Otterham St. Dennis is near Marshgate from Hartland Point in the north region
of Stoke Church to Bocastle in the south of the region of church of St. Juliot,
a loom of Old Churches, Celtic Crosses and Holy Wells.. The latter at Bocastle
was restored by Thomas Hardy before the 1830s.
The parish of Monkokehampton near Eggesford, Hatherleigh, Black Torrington
hundred, rural deanery of Okehampton, archdeaconry of Totnes and diocese
of Exeter is a church of All Saints an edifice of stone in the Perpendicular
style. Medieval legend tells that Totnes was the place where the
founder of the British race, Brutus of Troy first landed ashore. Totnes
was established by the Saxon kingdom of Wessex, to defend the Dart Valley
from the Vikings. After the Norman conquest, Totnes was given to a knight
called Judhael, who built the Castle and founded the Priory (Guilhall).
Judhael was the first Lord of Barnstaple who found also the Priory of St.
Mary Magdalen outside of the town wall there from the market and fair. Judhael's
estate in Eggbuckland, Plym held by Heche at the same time of Edward the
Confessor. Barnstaple was a borough held by William the Conqueror where
walls separated the town markets from the priory at Pilton. Medieval Totnes
broke free of its walls, and the long street leading down to the river came
into being. The townspeople traded with France and along the English Channel.
In 1206 people aquired their charter of independence from King John, and
sent their first MP to Parliament in 1295. The list of Mayors in the Guildhall
begins in 1359. In 1641/2 64 adult males signed the Protestation returns.
Over 200 charters have survived before 1217. In 1269 the Abbot was formally
deposed and in 1283 Hatherleg was returned to the Abbey of Tavistock under
whose jurisdiction it remained until the dissolution of the monasteries in
1539. During the Norman period another church was built on the Saxon site
and in 1220 a charter was granted by Henry the third for a weekly market and
a two day fair on the feast of John the Baptist the patron saint of the Parish
Church. Around 1265 disputes arose between the Abbot of Tavistock and the
Bishop of Exeter and the Abbot was suspended. The Redvers earls of Devon were
one of the leading families of southern England in the twelfth and thirteenth
centuries, with large estates in Devon, Dorset, Hampshire and the Isle of
Wight.
Earls of Devon from Domesday were obtained by Richard de Redvers the great
barony of Okehampton from Wm. II., was created Earl of Devon by Henry I.,
and the title was held by his descendants till the death of Baldwin, the eighth
earl, in 1262, when his sister and heiress, Isabel de Redvers, succeeded as
Countess of Devon. She married Wm. de Fortibus, Earl of Albemarle, and left
only a daughter, who died without issue, in 1293. Hugh Courtenay, the sixth
Baron and first Viscount Courtenay, of Powderham Castle, being descended from
the sister of Baldwin de Redvers, was created Earl of Devon, in 1335, and
died in 1340. Thomas, the sixth Earl, of the Courtenay family, was attainted
and beheaded in 1461, when all his honours were forfeited. The title of DUKE
0F DEVOSHIRE has been held by the Cavendish family since 1694, and that of
Earl of Devonshire since 1618 In 1552 the manor and many of the associated
lands were granted to Lord Clynton and Henry Hersdon and shortly after it
was further sub-divided. Fishleigh was purchased by Leonard Yeo and the bulk
of the manorial lands passed to John Arscott of Tetcott. The manor stayed
in the hands of the Arscott family until 1788 when it was sold to Joseph Oldham
in whose family the title still remains. As the Abbots of Tavistock and the
Arscotts were absentee landlords no ancient Manor House exists. It never formed
part of the vast block of Tavistock Abbey lands granted to John, Lord Russell;
it was part of the original endowment of Tavistock Abbey, founded about 974
by Ordulf of northwest Devon that the westcountry borough stands as a manor
in an old abbot district. Other houses and farmsteads on ancient sites are
Essworthy, Fishleigh, Pulsworthy, Hannaborough, Passaford, Upcott, and Great
Velliford. In the seventeenth century Hatherleigh was involved in the wool
trade and enjoyed great prosperity. In 1693 a charter was granted by William
and Mary for the Tuesday market which is still held today.
| Pancrasweek (St. Pancras) Transcribed from -
Morris and Co.'s Commercial Directory and Gazetteer. 1870 |
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Trades and Professions. ALLIN Leonard, farmer,
East Hamsworthy ALLIN Thomas, farmer, Higher moor BASSETT William, farmer,
Kingford BECKLEY Mrs. Elizabeth, farmer, West Hamsworthy BECKLEY John,
farmer, Hamsworthy BECKLEY Richard, farmer, Heddon BECKLEY Richard,
farmer, Lana BECKLEY Richard, farmer and carpenter, Crimp BUCKLER Nicholas,
farmer, Kingford BURNARD William, farmer, Barton CASELEY John, farmer,
Brindon CHAPLIN Thomas, farmer, Hudson GILBERT John, farmer, Bromell
GILBERT William and Lewis, farmer, Wooda GILBERT Nathaniel, farmer,
Kingford GILBERT William, farmer, Wooda HODGE, Richard, farmer, Aldercott
HODGE Richard, jun., farmer, Aldercott
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LOTT Robert, blacksmith MILLMAN Mrs. Elizabeth,
farmer, Puckland MOORE John, miller, Kingford mills OKE Mrs., blacksmith
OLDE James, farmer, Dexbeer PENWARDEN John, farmer, Dunsden PENWARDEN
Peter, farmer, Youldon PENWARDEN Richard, farmer, Lana ROUTLEY William,
farmer, Vealand SMITH Thos., farmer and carpenter, Glebe STACEY John,
farmer, Slade TRIMBLE John, farmer, Venn TURNER John, farmer, Pilworthy
___________ Letters from Holsworthy, which is also the
nearest money order office
_____________ Parochial School - William Gliddon,
master.
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