
Bindon is an historic
manor
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Land ownership
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*Man ...
in the parish of
Axmouth in Devon, England.
History
It 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 so ...
(died c. 1467) (''alias'' Wykes, Wycke, Wick, Wicks, Weeke, etc.) a
Member of Parliament for
Plympton Erle (UK Parliament constituency) in 1413, a younger son of William Wyke of
North Wyke
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Etymology
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in the parish of
South Tawton in Devon.
On 16 July 1425 he was licensed by
Edmund Lacey,
Bishop of Exeter
The Bishop of Exeter is the ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Exeter in the Province of Canterbury. Since 30 April 2014 the ordinary has been Robert Atwell. 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
Walter Erle (died 1581) of
Colcombe in the parish of
Colyton in Devon, an officer of the
Privy Chamber to two wives of King Henry VIII, to his son King Edward VI and to the latter's sisters Queen Mary I and Queen Elizabeth I. Erle purchased the manor of Axmouth following the
Dissolution of
Syon Monastery of which it had been a possession. Thus Bindon passed to the Erle family, with other former Wyke lands including
Charborough 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.
[Hamilton Rogers, p.382]
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
Former manors in Devon