East Down is a village and
civil parish
In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authorit ...
in the
Barnstaple district of
Devon
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,
England
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. It includes the hamlets of
Churchill
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, Shortacombe, Brockham and Clifton. The parish contains a church, pub and manor house.
Historic estates
The estate of Northcote was listed in the
Domesday Book
Domesday Book () – the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book" – is a manuscript record of the "Great Survey" of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 by order of King William I, known as William the Conqueror. The manus ...
of 1086 and was the earliest known seat of the ''de Northcote'' family which became
Northcote Baronets
There have been two baronetcies created for members of the Northcote family, one in the Baronetage of England and one in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. One creation is extinct.
The Northcote Baronetcy, of Hayne in the County of Devon, wa ...
in 1641, by which time they had moved to Hayne, in the parish of
Newton St Cyres, and were created
Earls of Iddesleigh
Earl of Iddesleigh ( ), in the County of Devon, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1885 for the Conservative politician Sir Stafford Northcote, 8th Baronet, of Pynes in the parish of Upton Pyne near Exeter i ...
in 1885, by which time they were seated at
Upton Pyne
Upton Pyne is a parish and village in Devon, England. The parish lies just north west of Exeter, mainly between the River Exe and River Creedy. The village is located north of Cowley and west of Brampford Speke and Stoke Canon. It has a populat ...
. The
Heraldic Visitation
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s of Devon lists the founder of the family as ''Galfridus de Northcote, Miles'' ("knight"), living in 1103. The family later in the 16th century made its fortune as cloth merchants at
Crediton[ Hoskins, W.G., A New Survey of England: Devon, London, 1959, p.389]
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