East Down, Devon
East Down is a village and civil parish[1] in the Barnstaple district of Devon, England. It includes the hamlets of Churchill, Shortacombe, Brockham and Clifton. The parish contains a church, pub and manor house.[2]
Historic estates
The estate of Northcote was listed in the Domesday Book of 1086 and was the earliest known seat of the de Northcote family which became Northcote Baronets in 1641, by which time they had moved to Hayne, in the parish of Newton St Cyres, and were created Earls of Iddesleigh in 1885, by which time they were seated at Upton Pyne. The Heraldic Visitations of Devon lists the founder of the family as Galfridus de Northcote, Miles ("knight"), living in 1103. [3] The family later in the 16th century made its fortune as cloth merchants at Crediton[4]
Literary references
- East-Down is also the name of an English village in the comic book "Tintin and the black island". However the comic book refers to a place called East-Down in Sussex. There is no East-Down in Sussex.[5] [6]
Notes
- ^ Within Shirwell Deanery
- ^ Devon County Council website
- ^ Vivian, Heraldic Visitations of Devon, 1895, p.581
- ^ Hoskins, W.G., A New Survey of England: Devon, London, 1959, p.389
- ^ Tintin and the Black Island. USA: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. April 30, 1975. p. 4. ISBN 0316358355.
{{cite book}}:|first=missing|last=(help) - ^ "Black Island: Where is Eastdown (previously Eastbury)?". Tintin wiki. Tintinologist. Retrieved 24 April 2014.
External links
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