East Down is a village and

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in the Barnstaple district of

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. It includes the hamlets of

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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

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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

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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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