ColletonBartonDevon ByEdwardAshworth 1892

ColletonBarton Chulmleigh Devon RiverTawValley

Colleton is a hamlet and former

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in the

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and ecclesiastical parish of

Chulmleigh Chulmleigh ( ) is a small Saxon hilltop market town and civil parish located in North Devon in the heart of the English county of Devon. It is located north west of Exeter, just north of the Mid Devon boundary, linked by the A377 and B3096 ...

, in the

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district of

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, England. It is situated on the north side of a valley containing the River Taw. Its nearest town is

, which lies approximately to the south-west. It consists of the

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Colleton Barton (the former

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) and Colleton Mill, the former manorial mill, with another former industrial building situated at the approach to the bridge over the River Taw.

History

Ownership

According to Pole (died 1635), the earliest records pertaining to ownership of the manor relate to the Cole family, Risdon stated it to have remained in the possession of that family for many generations, until during the reign of King

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(1377–1399) it passed by inheritance to an heir general of the Bury family. The last of the Bury family died in 1804, and the property was inherited by Vice-Admiral Richard Incledon (1757–1825), third son of Chichester Incledon (1715–1771) of Barnstaple, a junior branch of the ancient gentry family of Incledon of Incledon, later of Buckland, both in the parish of Braunton, Devon; as required under the terms of his inheritance, he assumed the surname of Bury. Incledon-Bury's third daughter and heiress, Penelope, married Rev. John Russell (1795–1883) (''Jack Russell''), the "Sporting Parson", vicar of Swimbridge, who developed the

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, a variety of the

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breed. Russell is said to have had expensive sporting habits both on and off the hunting-field, which drained the substantial resources of his heiress wife and left the estate of Colleton in poor condition. By 1850, Colleton Barton was in use as a farmhouse, which status it retained in 1883. The property was bought in 1901 by William Pethebridge Martin (1859–1935); since 1987, Colleton has been owned by Simon and Grania Phillips, who have carried out much restoration work and have been rearing North Devon cattle on the estate since about 2000.

Buildings

Gatehouse and chapel

ColletonBarton ChulmleighDevon Gatehouse

The Gatehouse is probably C15, remodelled in circa C16 or early C17, with minor alterations probably of the early C19 and was repaired in C20. Formerly occupying the upper floor was a chapel dedicated to St. Edmund of Canterbury ( Edmund Rich (1175–1240),

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(1233–1240), canonised 1349), licensed in 1402 by

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. The building is orientated on an east-west axis, thus suited for religious usage. The former entrance was up a steep staircase on the north side.Bury, 1993

Sources

*Bury, Richard M.B., History of Colleton Barton, 1993

References

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