Farringdon, Devon
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Farringdon is a village,
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. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of parishes, w ...
and former manor in the district of
East Devon East Devon is a local government district in Devon, England. Its council is based in the town of Honiton, although Exmouth is the largest town. The district also contains the towns of Axminster, Budleigh Salterton, Cranbrook, Ottery St M ...
in the county of
Devon Devon ( ; historically also known as Devonshire , ) is a ceremonial county in South West England. It is bordered by the Bristol Channel to the north, Somerset and Dorset to the east, the English Channel to the south, and Cornwall to the west ...
, England. The parish is surrounded clockwise from the north by the parishes of Clyst Honiton, Aylesbeare, a small part of
Colaton Raleigh Colaton Raleigh is a village and civil parish in East Devon East Devon is a local government district in Devon, England. Its council is based in the town of Honiton, although Exmouth is the largest town. The district also contains the t ...
, Woodbury,
Clyst St Mary Clyst St Mary is a small village and civil parish east of Exeter on the main roads to Exmouth and Sidmouth in East Devon. The name comes from the Celtic languages, Celtic word clyst meaning 'clear stream'. The village is a major part of the e ...
and a small part of
Sowton Sowton is a village and civil parish east of Exeter in East Devon, England. It has a population of 639. Its parish council merged with that of nearby Clyst St Mary in 1976 to form Bishop's Clyst. St Michael's church was rebuilt in 1844–45, ...
. The village is twinned with Secqueville-en-Bessin,
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,
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. The parish church of St Petrock and St Barnabas is a
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. Rebuilt in 1870, it retains its original Norman font. One of its most famous incumbents was John Travers (died 1620), a Nottingham man who was brother to the famous puritan cleric Walter Travers and who was related by marriage to another,
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.


Manor

The manor of Farringdon was long held by the "de Farringdon" family, whose pedigree from the early 13th century to the late 16th century is given in the Heraldic Visitations of Devon. Lancelot Farringdon (d.1598) "a proper and discret gentleman in outward show", in the words of Risdon (d.1640), was the last in the male line and committed suicide, and was "found hanged in his bedchamber by his garter to the bedstead". His estates passed to his two sisters, Abigail Farringdon, the elder, married to John Drake of Peter Tavy in Devon, and Mary Farringdon, the younger sister whose share of the inheritance included Farringdon, married to William Cooper. The
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of Farringdon were: ''Sable, three unicorns in pale argent armed and crined or''.


Historic estates

The parish of Farringdon contains various historic estates including: *Crealy (anciently ''Crowlegh, Crowleigh, Crealy, Crailey, Crayley,'' etc.), in about 1600 the seat of the "Mortimer ''alias'' Tanner" family. Today it is the site of the "Crealy Adventure Park & Resort" themepark. *Denbow (anciently ''Penbow, Benbow,'' etc.), anciently a seat of the Martyn family. *Upham, in the time of Pole (d.1635), the seat of Humfry Walrond (born 1554), (4th son of Humphry II Walrond (died 1586) of Bradfield in the parish of
Uffculme Uffculme (, ) is a village and civil parish located in the Mid Devon district of Devon, England. Situated in the Blackdown Hills National Landscape, Blackdown Hills on the B3440, close to the M5 motorway and the Bristol–Exeter line, Bristol– ...
, Devon) who purchased it from a member of the Duke family of
Otterton Otterton is a village and civil parish in East Devon, England. The parish lies on the English Channel and is surrounded clockwise from the south by the parishes of East Budleigh, Bicton, Colaton Raleigh, Newton Poppleford and Harpford and Sidmo ...
. At some previous time it had been a possession of the Cary family. The surviving 17th century mansion, now a farmhouse, has on the first floor a plaster overmantel with
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decoration. Pevsner, Nikolaus & Cherry, Bridget, The Buildings of England: Devon, London, 2004, p.447


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