Whiteway, Kingsteignton
Whiteway is an historic estate in the parish of
Descent
de Moels
WITEWEI is a
Feudal barony of Plympton
Whiteway was later a possession of the feudal barony of Plympton,[3] of which the barons were the Courtenay family, Earls of Devon, also heirs of the de Moels's feudal barony of Okehampton.
Burdon /de la Torre
The tenants of Whyteweye listed in the Book of Fees (c.1302) were Nicholas Burdon and Martin de la Torre.[4]
Yard
According to the Devon
In 1795 during one of his Picturesque Tours around Devon, Swete passed by Whiteway and made a watercolour painting of the then larger mansion house, entitled "Whiteway, seat of the Yardes" and dated 10 July 1795. The painting is now in the collection of the Devon Records Office.[9] Swete wrote of the visit as follows in his Travel Journal:[10]
- "Of this mansion I took the following sketch, induced thereto not so much by its respectability or situation, both of which however have enough to attract notice, as from its having given birth to my mother and been the place of residence of her ancestors for centuries... Whiteway, the abode of farmers occupiers of the estates: such is the vicissitude of things. The buildings here for the period in which they were raised had rather a respectable appearance, and situate as it is on a knoll, it had command of the little valley, looked full upon the picturesque wood from whence i was making my observations".
2017
Today the remnant of Whiteway is a
References
- ^ Thorn, Caroline & Frank, (eds.) Domesday Book, (Morris, John, gen.ed.) Vol. 9, Devon, Parts 1 & 2, Phillimore Press, Chichester, 1985, Chapter 16:157
- ^ Thorn & Thorn, Part 1, 16:157
- ^ Thorn & Thorn, Part 2 (Notes), 16:157
- ^ Thorn & Thorn, Part 2 (Notes), 16:157
- ^ Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, p.829
- Gray, Todd & Rowe, Margery (Eds.), Travels in Georgian Devon: The Illustrated Journals of The Reverend John Swete, 1789-1800, 4 vols., Tiverton, 1999, Vol 2, p.164
- Gray, Todd & Rowe, Margery (Eds.), Travels in Georgian Devon: The Illustrated Journals of The Reverend John Swete, 1789-1800, 4 vols., Tiverton, 1999, Vol 2, p.164; Pevsner, p.556
- ^ Swete, Vol.2, p.164
- Gray, Todd & Rowe, Margery (Eds.), Travels in Georgian Devon: The Illustrated Journals of The Reverend John Swete, 1789-1800, 4 vols., Tiverton, 1999 , Vol.2, p.164
- ^ Swete, VBol.2, pp.164-5
- ^ "Whiteway Barton Including Garden Walls, Gatepiers and Railings, Kingsteignton, Devon".
- ^ "Motocross Track - Whiteway Barton Motocross Track".