Bindon is a historic manor, house and estate in the parish of

Axmouth Axmouth is a village, civil parish and former manor in the East Devon district of Devon, England, near the mouth of the River Axe. The village itself is about inland, on the east bank of the Axe estuary. The parish extends along the estu ...

in Devon, England. The house is a

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History

Bindon was acquired from Nicholas Bach by

Roger Wyke Roger Wyck (died c.1467) (''alias'' Wykes, Wycke, Wick, Wicks, Weeke, etc.) of Bindon in the parish of Axmouth in Devon, was a Member of Parliament for Plympton Erle (UK Parliament constituency) in 1413.Woodger Origins He was a younger son ...

(died c. 1467) (''alias'' Wykes, Wycke, Wick, Wicks, Weeke, etc.) a member of parliament for

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in 1413, a younger son of William Wyke of

North Wyke North Wyke is an historic manor in the parish of South Tawton, Devon. The surviving grade I listed manor house, the original Devonshire seat of the Wyke (''alias'' de Wray) family from the early 13th century to 1714, retains its basic mediaeva ...

in the parish of

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in Devon. On 16 July 1425 he was licensed by

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to "have a chapel within his Manor House of Bindon, in the Parish of Axmouth," as is stated in the Episcopal register. Roger's great-grandson Richard Wyke died without male progeny, leaving four daughters and co-heiresses. The youngest of these was Mary Wyke who married

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(died 1581) of Colcombe in the parish of Colyton in Devon, an officer of the

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to two wives of King Henry VIII, to his son King Edward VI and the latter's sisters Queen Mary I and Queen Elizabeth I. Erle purchased the manor of Axmouth following the Dissolution of

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of which it had been a possession. Thus Bindon passed to the Erle family, with other former Wyke lands including

Charborough Charborough is an historic former parish and Manorialism, manor in Dorset, England. It survives today as a hamlet, situated on an affluent of the River Stour, Dorset, River Stour, 6 miles west of Wimborne Minster, but without any of its former adm ...

in Dorset. After four further generations in the Erle family eventually it passed by a series of heiresses to the Drax family which sold it. In 1962, the estate was purchased by Sir John Loveridge, the former Member of Parliament for the constituencies of

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(1970–1974) and

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(1974–1983). He died in 2007, but the estate remains in the ownership of his family.

Manor house

The manor house dates from the 15th century, but was extensively rebuilt in the 16th century and has a mid-20th century extension. It has two stories plus attics and is constructed in stone rubble with freestone dressings and a slate roof.

Sources

* Hamilton Rogers, William Henry, ''Memorials of the West, Historical and Descriptive, Collected on the Borderland of Somerset, Dorset and Devon'', Exeter, 1888, pp. 375–82, ''Axmouth and Bindon

* William Pole (antiquary), Pole, Sir William (died 1635), Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon, Sir John-William de la Pole (ed.), London, 1791, p. 124, ''Bindon'' * Risdon, Tristram (died 1640), Survey of Devon, 1811 edition, London, 1811, with 1810 Additions, p. 26 * Pevsner, Nikolaus & Cherry, Bridget, The Buildings of England: Devon, London, 2004, p. 181

References

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