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he left issue Archibald his heir and two daughters. He was a man of the highest probity and honor, a most affectionate husband, a fond and judicious father, a sincere friend and one whose loss will not easily be replaced in the hearts of those who knew his worth. The early period of his life was passed in India. Subsequently he joined the Inniskilling Dragoons and was present with that regiment at the Battle of Waterloo. He succeeded in 1817 to the estates of his great-uncle John Clevland Esq.re of Tapley and shortly afterwards retired from the service, employing the remainder of his valuable life in the active discharge of all the duties of his position. As a magistrate and chairman of the Board of Guardians of the Barnstaple Union he displayed impartiality that never wavered, integrity above suspicion, placidity of temper and unaffected modesty of demeanour, combined with a sound judgement which won him the esteem and concilliated the good opinion of all classes. To his beloved memory this monument is erected by his widow as a lasting tribute of devoted affection.
1507:, Lease 29th/30th April 1814, Consideration: £5000 and 10s, of "Capital messuage and tenement etc., built by Augustus Saltren Willett, dec'd., and called Porthill House, Northam" from: 1. John Clevland, of Tapley, Esq. 2. Frances Saltren Willett, of London, widow. 3. John Saltren Willett, of London, Esq. 4. Augustus Saltren Willett, Esq., Lieutenant in His Majesty's Sixth or Innishkilling Regiment of Dragoons. 5. Rev'd. Stanier Porten, of Charlwood, Surrey, clerk, Harriett, his wife, William Saltren Willett, Esq., Captain in the Thirty-fourth Regiment of Foot, Francis Saltren Willett, of London, spinster, to Sir Richard Goodevin Keats, Knight of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath and a Vice-Admiral of His Majesty's Fleet 987:, Wembworthy, Devon. The marriage was not happy, but nevertheless Lady Rosmond had a profound effect on Tapeley, and was responsible for creating the present re-modelled house and the landscaped gardens. She first saw the house in the winter of 1881 before her marriage and in her journal she described the house as it then was as "A Georgian stucco house, very plain and rather dreary in appearance, for many of the front windows had been blocked...the terrace walk and garden did not exist and the drive approached between iron railings". She moved to Tapeley in about 1886, four years after her marriage, and employed the architect 909:. Daniel rose to major and fought in the war against hyder Ali in Mysore. It is said by Lauder (2002) that he saved the ruler's harem from being robbed of jewels by British soldiers and was rewarded by the harem with a gift of the jewels. The ruler awarded him a further £20,000. Daniel married twice, firstly in 1784 to Charlotte Bellasis (died 1785), a daughter of Rev. George Bellasis, rector of Yattendon, Berkshire, which was without surviving children. Secondly in 1786 Daniel married Elizabeth Langham (died 1833), a daughter and co-heiress of Captain Purbeck Langham, 10th Dragoon Guards, of Glyndebourne and of 768: 686: 936: 945: 553: 54: 46: 38: 22: 783:(1734–1817), being the son of Augustus Saltren-Willett (1760–1813) (who died at Tapeley in 1813 as his mural monument in Westleigh Church attests), builder of Port Hill House in Northam (by his wife Frances Davie of Orleigh) the son of William Saltren (the second son of Thomas Saltren of Stone in the parish of Parkham) by his wife Hester Clevland, the eldest full-blood sister of John Clevland (1734–1817). A younger branch of the Saltrens, of Treludick, in Cornwall, settled at Petticombe in the parish of 378:, in Cornwall. Several monuments exist to the Coryton family in the Church of St Melanus, St Mellion. Thomas's eldest son by his first marriage was heir to Halsbury and the senior line of the family remained seated there until the death of John Giffard of Halsbury (d.post 1666), the last in the male line, who bequeathed the estate on Roger Giffard (1646–1724) a younger son of the junior Brightley line. Sir Roger Giffard had 14 children by his wife Margaret Coblegh, heiress of Brightley and Tapeley. 327: 795:, the last male representative of that family, whose mural monument survives in Abbotsham Church. John Willett was responsible for the plasterwork dated 1616 at Coombe House and amongst the ancient benchends in Abbotsham Church is one with initials J.W. and the woolstapler's mark. William Saltren's eldest son Augustus Saltren adopted the additional surname Willett. In 1814 Augustus Saltren-Willett sold Port Hill House to Admiral Sir 30: 244: 856:. He died unmarried and without children, and was therefore the last of the Clevland (and Saltren-Willett) family. Several monuments exist to his memory, including an elaborate sculpted and inscribed marble mural monument and a large stained glass window in Westleigh Church, and two monuments in the grounds of Tapeley Park, namely a 50-foot high 318:. He also features further in the Letters. There exists in Chittlehampton church a slab monument of John Coblegh (died 1542) and his wife Joan Fortescue. Their only child and sole heiress was Margaret Coblegh who married Sir Roger Giffard (died 1547), thus Brightley, together with other estates including Tapeley passed to the Giffard family. 835:
Sacred to the memory of Augustus Clevland of Tapley in this parish, Lieutenant Colonel of the North Devon Militia and Deputy Lieutenant of the county of Devon. Died July 5th 1849 aged 68. He married June 1830 Margaret Caroline, daughter of Colonel Chichester of Arlington Court in this county, by whom
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commemorating the Cobley family survive in St Hieritha's Church, Chittlehampton, one with an inscription to Henry Coblegh (died 1470) and his wife Alicia, parents of John Coblegh, whose brass lies adjacent to the north. John married twice, firstly to Isabella Cornu, secondly to Joan Pyne (possibly of
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commander who served as Controller of Storekeepers' Accounts (23 April 1718 – 24 May 1732). In 1702, having sailed into the North Devon port of Bideford, then one of the leading tobacco importation ports of Great Britain, he is said to have viewed from his ship the ancient mansion of Tapeley, in the
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in 1852. In 1829 Langham married Elizabeth Gosling (died 1866), daughter of William Gosling of Hassobury Park, Bishops Stortford, Essex. Their eldest son was William Langham Christie, of Glyndebourne, husband of Agnes Hamilton Clevland, heiress of Tapeley. Agnes Clevland and her husband William
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Raymond has given me the freedom to do what I wanted to do. I've not made it very easy for him, looking after the estate which was what I should have been doing. But the one thing that's constant in life is change. Now I'm going to be turning my attention to the estate, making it more open and
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Stated in the Visitations of Devon to have been MP for Totnes, Tavistock and Plympton; However the History of Parliament biography of his 1st Cousin Sir John Fortescue, Lord Chief Justice, of Ebrington, states the latter to have been MP for those places, thus confusion exists between the 2
539:. His brother and John Giffard's 4th son was his heir Caesar Giffard (died 1715) who married Mary Melhuish. They had a daughter Rachel Giffard who married Thomas Colley (died 1762). The executors of the will of Caesar Giffard sold the manor of Chittlehampton in 1737 to Samuel Rolle of 1025:
Tapeley was used as a home for children evacuated from Plymouth. It later served as a home for the Invalid Children's Aid Association, then as a hotel. John's eldest son and heir to Glyndebourne was Sir George Christie (born 1934) but he bequeathed Tapeley to his daughter Rosamund
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To the memory of Mrs Elizabeth Clevland wife of John Clevland Esq., Member of Parliament for the Borough of Barnstaple (where he has been chosen six successive parliaments) and daughter of Richard Stevens of Winscott. She died 16 September 1792 aged 65 years.
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Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry, 15th Edition, ed. Pirie-Gordon, H., London, 1937, p. 408, pedigree of Clevland, appended to pedigree of Christie of Tapeley Park and Glyndebourne,
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and Colonial House (now the Royal Hotel), East-the-Water, Bideford. He is said by various sources (but not by Burke's Landed Gentry 1858, which states his two sons named William died young) to have had a younger son
535:, 5 miles east of Tapeley. By Francis Fane he had at least two sons, Henry Giffard (1675–1709) an officer in the Royal Navy, who married Martha Hill, daughter of Edward Hill, Judge of the Admiralty and Treasurer of 434:, Dorset. His eldest son Arthur Giffard (1580–1616) predeceased his father having married Agnes Leigh (died 1625), daughter of Thomas Leigh Esq., of Burrough (anciently "Borow", "Borough", etc.) in the parish of 1360:
Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry, 15th Edition, ed. Pirie-Gordon, H., London, 1937, p.408, pedigree of Clevland, appended to pedigree of Christie of Tapeley Park and Glyndebourne
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Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, pedigree of Giffard pp.396–404, Giffard of Brightley pp.400–401
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in Cornwall (1761–1768). He left no children and was pre-deceased by all five of his younger brothers and half-brothers. A mural monument to his wife survives in Peters Marland Church inscribed as follows:
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garden. The estate, now mainly owned by the Christie Devon Estates Trust (trustees of the Christie family), comprises about 6,000 acres, and covers Saunton (including foreshore and beach),
823:(1826–1901), MP, for which event the whole village of Westleigh was decorated and "£20 was distributed amongst the poor whilst tea was served to the ancient women of the village". His two 516:. This marriage failed to produce a male heir, only a daughter and heiress Margaret Giffard (died 1743), who married John Courtenay (died 1732), the last in the male line of Courtenay of 860:(destroyed by lightning in 1933, with only the base remaining), and a statue erected near the lake by his mother, in the form of a mourning lady, with base inscribed as follows: 1017:. He married the opera singer Grace Audrey Louisa St John-Mildmay, daughter of Rev. Aubrey Neville St John-Mildmay, and opened an opera house at Glyndebourne, thus founding the 1853: 1322:). Patent revoked 24 May 1732 (National Archives: C 66/3586). Per Collinge, J.M., Office-Holders in Modern Britain: Volume 7: Navy Board Officials 1660–1832, published 1978 484:, Somerset. He had a daughter Grace, whose effigy exists in Chittlehampton Church, and at least two sons, John Giffard (1639–1712), his heir, and Roger Giffard (1644–1724). 223:(1389–1422)), and was succeeded by William Grant and then the latter's son William Grant (of Steventon, Devon), whose daughter Elizabeth Grant in 1477 married John Monck of 147:(sand dunes, partly a nature reserve and leased to the Ministry of Defence), Instow (including the foreshore purchased from the crown estate) and the village of Westleigh. 128: 1036:(1934 – May 2014) of Glyndebourne. Shortly after his father's death in 2014 he and the estate's long-serving agent Raymond Coldwell parted company and he remarked: 1769: 1848: 746:(Child of Surat, East Indies and Dervill, Essex, Baronet, created 1684, extinct 1753), the arms of William Clevland's mother Elizabeth Child). Overall is an 779:
for Devon, who following his inheritance assumed in 1847 by royal licence the surname and arms of Clevland in lieu of Willett. He was the great-nephew of
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accessible. We've got a lot of work to do on the property and we're going to have to borrow a lot of money. I'm going to play a more active role.
1519:. The arms of A S Willett impaling Davie of Orleigh appear on the engraving of Bideford (with inset of Port Hill House) by E.A.Ezekiel of Exeter 654: 524: 399: 650: 311: 220: 216: 212: 613:, with which it shares similar armorials. In 1704 he married Ann Davie (1689–1726), a daughter of the prominent Bideford tobacco merchant 1222:
Vivian, Visitations of Devon, p.357, pedigree of Fortescue; Joan's brother Henry Fortescue founded the Fortescue family of Preston, Devon
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Park, Northamptonshire. Daniel's eldest son by his 2nd marriage was Langham Christie (1789–1861) of Preston Deanery, Northamptonshire,
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John Giffard (1639–1712), of Brightley, eldest son and heir of Col. John Giffard (1602–1665). In 1704 he sold the estate of Tapeley to
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Called Agnes by the biographer John Prince, who was a friend of one of her sons, but called Anne in the Heralds' Visitations, p.400
905:(died 1809) of Vaud in Switzerland, who Anglicised his surname to Christie on entering the service of the Bombay Engineers, of the 570: 493: 1673:) part of the Tapeley estate, having been purchased by the Clevelands from the Luttrell family (see Lysons, Magna Britannia, 1822 960:
1881, west front, viewed from south-west, the house as first seen by Lady Rosamond Wallop, who remodelled it in Queen Anne style (
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survive in Westleigh Church, one showing the arms of Clevland alone, the other the arms of Clevland impaling Chichester (
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John Giffard (died 1585), eldest son and heir of Sir Roger Giffard (died 1547), married Mary Grenville, daughter of Sir
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See armorials depicted in Westleigh Church, which differ in tincture and crest from the Lanarkshire family of Cleland
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John Giffard (died 1622), son and heir of John Giffard (died 1585), married Honor Earle (died 1638), daughter of Sir
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building. In the mid 19th century the estate was inherited from the Clevland family by William Langham Christie of
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Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry, 1858, Volume 3, pedigree of Clevland of Tapeley
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in the sinking of which at Portsmouth he drowned in 1545, and was thus aunt of his son the heroic sea captain Sir
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of Bideford, which thenceforward descended with the Tapeley estate. He married three times. His 6th son was
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Mural monument to Elizabeth Stevens (1727–1792), wife of John Clevland (1734–1817), Peters Marland Church
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Saunton Manor in 1850 was a possession of the Saltren-Willet family,(White's Devonshire Directory (1850)
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Augustus Langham Christie (1857–1930), son and heir, of Glyndebourne and Tapeley, lord of the manor of
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of the Tapeley family took Tapeley by marriage into the Grant family. A certain Mauger le Grant was
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Hector Christie (born 1961), was bequeathed Tapeley by his aunt Rosamund. He is the eldest son of
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in 1529. Mary was the sister of Roger Grenville, believed to have been the captain of the
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Lauder, Rosemary, Devon Families, Tiverton, 2002, pp. 41–5, Christie of Tapeley Park
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Mural monument to Col. Augustus Saltren-Willett (Clevland) (1781–1849), Westleigh Church
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From Grant the estate of Tapeley descended by unknown means to the family of Coblegh of
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Azure, a hare salient or collared gules pendent therefrom a bugle horn stringed sable
307: 228: 696:(1734–1817), of Tapeley, eldest son and heir by his father's first wife, was MP for 1022: 1006: 918: 509: 447: 247: 200: 140: 95: 1235:, 6 vols, University of Chicago Press, Chicago & London, 1981, vol.1, pp.326–8 1173: 1143: 1010: 992: 431: 121: 29: 913:(near Tapeley, apparently as a tenant of the Clevland family), youngest son of 734:
Below is a white marble relief sculpted escutcheon showing the following arms:
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Secondly to Frances Fane, 2nd daughter of Hon. and Rev. William Fane, a son of
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in 1911. In 1882 he married Lady Rosamond Wallop (died 1935), 3rd daughter of
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accessed 15 January 2011; Not mentioned in the Burke's Landed Gentry pedigree
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Langham Christie rebuilt Tapeley Park with a "severe Victorian brick facade".
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Tapeley Park, west front and north (service) front, viewed from north-west
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Sir Roger Giffard (died 1547) was a younger son of the Giffard family of
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Tapeley Park and Gardens: The Sustainable Stately Home in the Making
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Per chevron azure and gules, in chief two falcons rising belled or
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in its beak on the mural monument to Roger Giffard (died 1603) of
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of Westleigh (in which parish is situated Tapeley), which he
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Rosamund Christie (1933–1988), daughter of John Christie.
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Walter de Tapeley, who is recorded as holding it in 1295
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and brother of Lady Rachel Fane (1614–1681), wife of
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in Kent (1747–1754). In about 1750 he purchased the
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Map showing location of Tapeley Park in North Devon
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See North Devon Record Office B127-6/73-74 1309:Spelling per his monument in Westleigh Church 1164:Vivian, p.568, pedigree of Monk of Potheridge 256:argent on a bend engrailed of the last three 8: 1516:marrieage 13/1/1777 Northam Parish Register 871:That mourns they exit from a world like this 744:Child baronets, of the City of London (1685) 1854:Grade II* listed parks and gardens in Devon 1291:Vivian, p.528, pedigree of Leigh of Borough 1062:latitude = 51.040724; longitude = -4.172789 981:Isaac Newton Wallop, 5th Earl of Portsmouth 653:, Devon (1741–1747 and 1754–1761) and for 211:"Lord Hugh Courtenay" (possibly therefore 1483:Burke, p.408; Lauder, p.42; Vivian, p.180 1244:Genealogy per information sheet in church 700:in seven parliaments and was Director of 298:, which John Fortescue was 1st cousin of 964:, 2014) and laid out the present gardens 766: 738:1st & 4th: Clevland; 2nd & 3rd: 551: 325: 242: 164:(died 1640) was the family of Baudrope. 127:The gardens are Grade II* listed in the 28: 1055: 304:Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales 1568:"Church of St Helen, Abbotsham, Devon" 865:Forgive blest shade the tributory tear 543:, within the parish of Chittlehampton. 390:(c. 1495–1550), lord of the manors of 64:is a historic estate in the parish of 525:Francis Fane, 1st Earl of Westmorland 221:Hugh de Courtenay, 12th Earl of Devon 217:Hugh de Courtenay, 10th Earl of Devon 176:(died 1635), Tapeley was held by the 7: 763:Augustus Saltren-Willett (1781–1849) 342:The pedigree of Giffard (pronounced 312:Honor Plantagenet, Viscountess Lisle 213:Hugh de Courtenay, 9th Earl of Devon 1849:Grade II* listed buildings in Devon 1300:Vivian, p.40, pedigree of Bampfield 1231:Byrne, Muriel St. Clare, (ed.) The 233:George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle 79:The present mansion house known as 1093:National Heritage List for England 1072:Listed building text, Tapeley Park 630:, said to have become King of the 306:. John Coblegh is recorded in the 14: 1749:North Devon Journal, 10 June 2014 829:Chequy or and gules, a chief vair 669:who rose to the high position of 529:Henry Bourchier, 5th Earl of Bath 496:(1664–1734). John married twice: 269:in the chancel of Tiverton Church 16:Historic estate in Devon, England 1501:Now a grade II* listed building 943: 934: 923:High Sheriff of Northamptonshire 250:of Coblegh family of Brightley: 1408:Date of birth per Burke's, 1858 1263:History of Parliament biography 1203:Vivian, p.632, pedigree of Pyne 502:Sir John Bampfylde, 1st Baronet 841:Archibald Clevland (1833–1854) 1: 821:William Wither Bramston Beach 811:in 1815 as an officer in the 556:Arms of Clevland of Tapeley: 454:Col. John Giffard (1602–1665) 354:Sir Roger Giffard (died 1547) 346:) is given as follows in the 1320:National Archives: C 66/3525 565:William Clevland (1664–1734) 120:, presented by the hotelier 106:(born 1882), the founder of 1019:Glyndebourne Opera Festival 854:Charge of the Light Brigade 813:6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons 108:Glyndebourne Opera Festival 1870: 758:Saltren Willett (Clevland) 647:Secretary to the Admiralty 457: 336:a crescent in chief argent 915:Sir John Langham, Baronet 799:(1757–1834), Governor of 681:John Clevland (1734–1817) 638:John Clevland (1706–1763) 504:(c. 1610 – 1650), MP, of 275:Brightley, Chittlehampton 25:Tapeley Park, south front 1782:Tapeley Park and Gardens 1447:accessed 15 January 2011 1438:Christie of Tapeley Park 1390:Christie of Tapeley Park 895:William Langham Christie 748:inescutcheon of pretence 603:Scottish clan of Cleland 488:John Giffard (1639–1712) 460:John Giffard (1602–1665) 422:John Giffard (died 1622) 382:John Giffard (died 1585) 366:, 4 miles south-west of 57:Tapeley Park, east front 1839:Country houses in Devon 1474:Burke's Armorials, 1884 1088:"Tapely Park (1000692)" 975:(near Tapeley), JP and 634:following a shipwreck. 281:of Chittlehampton. Two 215:(1276–1340) or his son 187:Walter de Tapeley, 1314 838: 807:and had fought at the 772: 732: 690: 580:) was a Scottish-born 561: 339: 270: 58: 50: 42: 34: 26: 977:High Sheriff of Devon 833: 797:Richard Goodwin Keats 770: 727: 688: 659:lordship of the manor 555: 514:Rashleigh, Wembworthy 446:(1628–1701) (created 329: 302:(c. 1394 – c. 1480), 246: 231:, Devon, ancestor of 114:television programme 56: 48: 40: 32: 24: 718:Member of Parliament 348:Heraldic visitations 190:Robert Tapeley, 1345 135:terraces, a working 117:Country House Rescue 1811: /  1610:North Devon Journal 1443:2 June 2013 at the 1395:2 June 2013 at the 1034:Sir George Christie 805:North Devon Militia 712:, in the parish of 410:(1542–1591) of the 394:in Cornwall and of 286:the Pyne family of 180:family as follows: 102:. 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Westleigh
Devon
England
grade II* listed
country house
Queen Anne style
Glyndebourne
Sussex
John Christie
Glyndebourne Opera Festival
Channel 4
Country House Rescue
Ruth Watson
National Register of Historic Parks and Gardens
Italianate
kitchen garden
permaculture
Braunton Burrows
Risdon
Pole
heir general
lord of the manor
held from
Hugh de Courtenay, 9th Earl of Devon
Hugh de Courtenay, 10th Earl of Devon

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