Rashleigh is an historic former manor in the parish of

Wembworthy Wembworthy is a small village, parish and former Manorialism, manor in Mid-Devon, England. It is situated in the valley of the River Taw, 8 miles north-east of the towns of Hatherleigh and 12 miles south of South Molton. St Michael's Church is th ...

, Devon. Rashleigh Barton, the former

manor house A manor house was historically the main residence of the lord of the manor. The house formed the administrative centre of a manor in the European feudal system; within its great hall were held the lord's manorial courts, communal meals ...

, is a

grade II* listed In the United Kingdom, a listed building or listed structure is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, in Wales, and the Northern I ...

building, situated 5 miles north-east of the village of Wembworthy. It was the earliest known seat of the ancient Rashleigh family, a junior branch of which is still seated at Menabilly in Cornwall (see Rashleigh Baronets), and in the 16th century, on the failure of the male line, passed from the senior line of the Rashleigh family via a sole heiress to the Clotworthy family of Clotworthy in the same parish of Wembworthy.Vivian, p.203

Sources

Marshall, James C., ''Rashleigh of Devon'', Devon Notes and Queries Volume IV, Part VI, April 1907, pp. 201-215
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Pevsner, Nikolaus Sir Nikolaus Bernhard Leon Pevsner (30 January 1902 – 18 August 1983) was a German-British art historian and architectural historian best known for his monumental 46-volume series of county-by-county guides, ''The Buildings of England'' (19 ...

& Cherry, Bridget, The Buildings of England: Devon, London, 2004, pp. 698–9, Rashleigh Barton *Lauder, Rosemary Anne, A Tale of Two Rivers, Bideford, 1986, pp. 69–70, Rashleigh Barton *Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry, 15th Edition, ed. Pirie-Gordon, H., London, 1937, pp. 1891–3, Rashleigh of Menabilly * Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, pp. 203–4, pedigree of Clotworthy of Clotworthy and of Rashleigh

References

Former manors in Devon Country houses in Devon Grade II* listed buildings in Devon {{Devon-struct-stub