Buckland Filleigh
Buckland Filleigh is a village, civil parish and former manor in the Torridge district of North Devon, England, situated about 8 miles south of the town of Great Torrington. According to the 2001 census, the parish had a population of 170. It is surrounded clockwise from the north by the parishes of Peters Marland, Petrockstowe, Highampton, Sheepwash and Shebbear.[1]
Within the parish is the manor house known as Buckland House, damaged by fire in 1798 and rebuilt in 1810 in the neo-classical style by John Inglett Fortescue (1758–1841) to the designs of the architect James Green.
History
[edit]The manor of Buckland Filleigh is listed in the Domesday Book and was later held successively by the families of de Filleigh, Denzell, Fortescue, Spooner, Fortescue (again), Inglett-Fortescue, Baring and Browne.
References
[edit]- ^ "Map of Devon Parishes" (PDF). Devon County Council. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 November 2013. Retrieved 7 July 2016.
Further reading
[edit]- Taylor, Madeline Jane, Buckland Filleigh: A Continuous Thread, Bideford, 2005, Lazarus Press
- Williams, H. Fulford, Notes on the parish of Buckland Filleigh, Devon, 1964, Typescript, 68pp.
- Reichel, O.J., A Batch of Old Deeds Relating to Buckland Filleigh, Devonshire Association Transactions, vol. 41, 1909, pp. 41–55.
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