Huntsham
Huntsham | ||
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Shire county | ||
Region | ||
Country | England | |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom | |
Post town | TIVERTON | |
Postcode district | EX16 | |
Dialling code | 01398 | |
Police | Devon and Cornwall | |
Fire | Devon and Somerset | |
Ambulance | South Western | |
UK Parliament | ||
Huntsham is a small village and civil parish, formerly a manor and ecclesiastical parish, in the Mid Devon district of Devon, England. The nearest town is Tiverton, about 5.8 miles (9.3 km) south-west of the village. The parish is surrounded clockwise from the north by the parishes of Bampton, Hockworthy, Uplowman and Tiverton;[2] it is bounded on the east by the River Lowman and by a minor road on Bampton Down to the north west, where it reaches a maximum height of 914 feet (279 m). In 2001 the population of the parish was 138, down from 222 in 1901.[3]
Huntsham is part of the
History
The Iron Age fort known as Huntsham Castle is situated on the southern border of the parish.
According to the
Pole further stated that in 1309 Robert Beare was the owner,[9] from whom the descent of the manor has been traced through that family,[10][11] to Thomas Bere (1652–1725) who was twice MP for Tiverton.[12] He purchased from the Wallop family the nearby manor of Morebath where his half-brother, Richard Bere (1659–1724), established his own family in about 1688.[13] On the extinction of the descendants of Thomas, Richard's branch soon became the senior line of the Bere family.
Having been abandoned by the Bere family in favour of Morebath, Huntsham was purchased firstly by the Lucas family, and then by the Troyte family, of which William Troyte was the owner in 1801,[14] and Thomas Troyte in 1810.[15]
After the death of Thomas in 1812, the manor was inherited by his younger brother the Rev. Edward Berkeley Troyte (1763–1852), DCL, Rector of Huntsham, who was more interested in the sporting life – cock fighting and fox hunting – than in managing his estates. As a consequence, on his death the Tudor manor house and the adjacent parish church were both in a poor state of repair.
References
- ^ Neighbourhood Statistics 2001 – Huntsham CP
- ^ "Map of Devon Parishes" (PDF). Devon County Council. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 November 2013. Retrieved 20 June 2013.
- ISBN 1-84114-314-6.
- ^ Diocese of Exeter - Hunstham. Retrieved 29 May 2016.
- ^ Historic England. "Huntsham Court (1169316)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 7 August 2014.
- ^ Thorn, Caroline & Frank, (eds.) Domesday Book, (Morris, John, gen.ed.) Vol. 9, Devon, Part 1, section 42.23, Phillimore Press, Chichester, 1985.
- ^ Pole, p.213 (regnal years 27 Henry III and 1 Edward II)
- ^ Vivian, p.59
- ^ Pole, p.213 (regnal year 3 Edward II)
- ^ Pole, p.213
- ^ Vivian, pp.59–61, pedigree of Bere
- History of Parliament. Retrieved 29 May 2016
- ^ Vivian, p.61
- Gray, Todd & Rowe, Margery (Eds.), Travels in Georgian Devon: The Illustrated Journals of The Reverend John Swete, 1789–1800, 4 vols., Tiverton, 1999, vol.4, p.200
- ^ Risdon, Tristram (d.1640), Survey of Devon, 1811 edition, London, 1811, 1810 additions, p.370.
- ^ a b c "Huntsham – History of Troyte Family" (PDF). Troyte Ringing Centre. Retrieved 29 May 2016.(Hosted on GENUKI)
- ^ a b Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry, 15th Edition, ed. Pirie-Gordon, H., London, 1937, pp.2290–1, pedigree of Acland-Troyte of Huntsham Court
- ISBN 0-14-071050-7.
Sources
- Pole, Sir William (d.1635), Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon, Sir John-William de la Pole (ed.), London, 1791
- Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895