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Summary

At bishop's tawton the site of a manor which was one of twelve in devon held by the bishop of exeter in the 14th century (walker).

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SS53SE/232

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• MANOR (XI to Post Medieval - 1001 AD to 1750 AD (Between))

Full description

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV242.

Bishop's tawton was tautona in domesday. It was held by bishop osbern of exeter. Before the conquest it was held by bishop leofric (reichel).

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV335.

Throughout medieval times bishop's tawton was, next to paignton, the bishop of exeter's most valuable property (hoskins).

WALKER, Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV44231.

At bishop's tawton the site of a manor which was one of twelve in devon held by the bishop of exeter in the 14th century (walker).

WORTH, Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV6808.

Identified as tavtone in the domesday survey (worth).

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV79547.

Walker, h. H. /tda/93(1961)312-313/notes for a study of bishop walter de stapledon and the church in the westcountry in the early 14th century.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV79548.

Worth, r. N. /tda/25(1893)338/the identifications of the domesday manors of devon.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV79549.

Hoskins, w. G. /devon/(1954)338.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV79550.

Reichel, o. J. /hundreds of devon/(1928-1938)68,74-76,81,95,96/the hundred of south molton in early times.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV79551.

Gover, j. E. B. + mawer, a. + stenton, f. M. /the place-names of devon/(1931)352.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV79552.

Weddell, p. J. /pdas/48(1990)111/archaeological recording in the medieval borough of newport, barnstaple in 1983.

Gover, J. E. B. + Mawer, A. + Stenton, F. M., 1931, The Place-Names of Devon: Part One (Monograph). SDV1312.

Bishop's tawton appears throughout the middle ages in various documents and spelt in different ways. It means 'farm on the taw' and was held by the bishop of exeter in 1086 (gover et al).

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