Templeton is a hamlet,

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and former manor in Devon, England, situated 4 miles west of Tiverton. The parish church is dedicated to St Margaret.

History

Templeton, near Templeton Bridge - geograph

According to the Devon historian

Sir William Pole Sir William Pole (1561–1635) of Colcombe House in the parish of Colyton, and formerly of Shute House in the parish of Shute (adjoining Colcombe), both in Devon, was an English country gentleman and landowner, a colonial investor, Member ...

(d.1635), who was an owner of the manor, Templeton was a possession of the

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, and after the suppression of that order in 1312 passed to the Knights Hospitaller of St John. Following the Dissolution of the Monasteries by King Henry VIII (1509-1547) Templeton was taken into the ownership of the Crown, and was re-granted by that king to George Loosemore, whose son Robert Loosemore sold it to Sir

William Peryam Sir William Peryam (15349 October 1604) of Little Fulford, near Crediton in Devon, was an English judge who rose to the position of Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer in 1593, and was knighted by Queen Elizabeth I. Origins Peryam was born in ...

(1534-1604) of

Little Fulford Little Fulford was an historic estate in the parishes of Shobrooke and Crediton, Devon. It briefly share ownership before 1700 with Great Fulford, in Dunsford, about to the south-west. The Elizabethan mansion house originally called Fulford ...

, near

Crediton Crediton is a town and civil parish in the Mid Devon district of Devon in England. It stands on the A377 Exeter to Barnstaple road at the junction with the A3072 road to Tiverton, about north west of Exeter and around from the M5 motorway ...

in Devon,

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. On the marriage of his eldest daughter Mary Peryam, to

(d.1635), MP, of Shute, Devon, as part of her marriage settlement he conveyed the manor of Templeton to her husband. It was still in the possession of Sir William Pole at the time of writing his great work ''Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon''. It remained in the Pole family for several generations until it was sold by Sir William's descendant Sir John William de la Pole, 6th Baronet (1757–1799) of

New Shute House New Shute House is a late Palladian country house built between 1785 and 1789 by Sir John de la Pole, 6th Baronet (1757–1799) and is situated within the grounds of Old Shute House, in the parish of Shute, Devon, Shute, near Axminster, East De ...

, Devon.Risdon, p.371, name of purchaser left blank

Sources

* Pole, Sir William (d.1635), Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon, Sir John-William de la Pole (ed.), London, 1791, pp. 441–2, Templeton

References

Hamlets in Devon {{Devon-geo-stub