East Allington
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East Allington is a village and
The parish is surrounded clockwise from the north by the parishes of
The church, dedicated to St. Andrew, overlooks the village from a hillside position. The first rector here was presented in 1268, and Bishop Grandisson dedicated the altar in 1333. The present building, however, dates from the 15th and 16th centuries.[2]
It was in East Allington Church, on 12 November 1943, that the announcement was first made to the people of a large part of the South Hams that they were all to be evacuated from the area by 20 December 1943.
Today, East Allington is a thriving village, with some new housing. It has a church, primary school, village hall, public house and recreation ground. Every year the road through the village is closed for the whacky races[5] which involve home-made soap box style go-karts racing downhill against the clock along a course lined with hay bales and crowds of people.
Fallapit
Fallapit was an estate held by a junior branch of the
The last in the male line of the Fallapit Fortescues was Edmund Fortescue (1660-1734), on whose death the estate descended via his eldest daughter Mary Fortescue (1690-1710) to the family of her husband and cousin Sir
The house was rebuilt circa 1810-15 in a pseudo-Elizabethan style near the site of the ancient mansion, and was "enlarged and beautified" in 1849.[16] Before 1870 the Fortescues sold the estate to William Cubitt (1834-1891), the sixth son of Thomas Cubitt (1788-1855), co-founder of the famous London building firm.[17] He was a younger brother of George Cubitt, 1st Baron Ashcombe (1828-1917). William was a JP for Devon and a lieutenant in the Coldstream Guards. He kept a pack of foxhounds at Fallapit[17] and in 1875 financed the parish church of St Andrew to the sum of £2,500.[9] An inscribed brass plate in his memory exists in the church.
William Blundell Fortescue (died 1903 at Octon, Torquay) was the last Fortescue (originally Wells) to reside at Fallapit House. He sold the house and grounds and various other properties in East Allington parish, in 1868 to William Cubitt. William Cubitt spent money on repairing Fallapit House, East Allington church, and replacing many of the cob and thatched dwellings, in EastAllington village, into stone and slate dwellings. He also rebuilt many of the farm houses. At his death his widow moved to Kingsbridge, and the house was used by his brother George Cubitt. On the death of George Cubitt (1st Baron Ashcombe) in 1917, his son Henry Cubitt (2nd Baron Ashcombe)acquired Fallapit and a large portion of East Allington parish. In 1924, Lord Ashcombe sold the whole estate to Thomas Place, of North Allerton, who kept it whole and sold the estate in March 1925. Fallapit House and some adjoining fields were bought by Mr Howard, of Yelverton, who sold the house and estate to Gordon Hope Robinson in 1926. Mr G. H. Robinson sold the house in 1948 to Mr Shelley, who held it to May 1950 when he sold the house and grounds to Miss Marva Claire Temple (died 1976), who ran her co-educational boarding school, St Thomas More's School, there from May 1950 to 1958, when she retired. Miss Muriel Mary O'Brien (died 08.05.2000) carried on the school, though for boys only. On the 17th December 1997, the school closed, and in 1999, the house and estate were sold to CSMA (Civil Service Motoring Association). In January 2001, Fallapit House was guttered and various buildings demolished. The house remained a guttered ruin for a number of years. In 2016, the house was acquired etc and converted into flats and new premises were built. Today, 2024, it is a private estate.
In 2008 the house was split into 8 apartments and retains only 20 acres (8 ha) of the former large estate.[18]
Notable people
- Arthur Fortescue (1848–1899), cricketer
- Rik Mayall (1958-2014), comedian and actor
References
- ^ "Map of Devon Parishes" (PDF). Devon County Council. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 November 2013. Retrieved 27 July 2015.
- ^ ISBN 1-84114-314-6.
- ^ "Allington & Loddiswell ward population 2011". Retrieved 19 February 2015.
- ^ Putt, Jane. "The Evacuation of the South Hams". WW2 People's War. BBC. Retrieved 5 July 2016.
- ^ "Eastallingtonwhackyraces.co.uk - Domain Name Expired". Archived from the original on 22 March 2016. Retrieved 3 December 2019.
- ^ Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, pp.352-3, pedigree of Fortescue
- ^ a b Vivian, p.353
- ^ 'General history: Extinct baronets', Magna Britannia: volume 6: Devonshire (1822), pp. CXXIII-CXXXII. URL: history: Extinct baronets
- ^ a b Hoskins, p.318
- ^ a b c Vivian, p.360
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- ^ Pevsner, p.231
- ^ Vivian, p.366
- ^ Risdon, Tristram (d.1640), Survey of Devon, 1811 edition, London, 1811, with 1810 Additions, p.381
- ^ Risdon, p.381
- Hoskins, W.G., A New Survey of England: Devon, London, 1959 (first published 1954), p.318
- ^ ISBN 9781907195327.
- ^ "2 bedroom appartment for sale in The Fallapit Estate". Archived from the original on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 31 March 2014.