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Summary

Willey is recorded as Wythelegh in Domesday Book, 1086. The 19th century Tithe Map suggests that it came to comprise three holdings. It is marked as West Willey and East Willey on the 1880s-1890s Ordnance Survey map. However, by the time of the 1904-6 map, West Willey had been almost completely rebuilt as a planned courtyard farmstead.

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX69NW/5

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• SETTLEMENT (First mentioned, XI - 1086 AD to 1086 AD)

Full description

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV222014.

Fulford williams, h. /tda/89(1957)228/sampford courtenay and honeychurch.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV222015.

Gover, j. E. B. + mawer, a. + stenton, f. M. /the place-names of devon/(1931)163.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV222016.

Reichel, o. J. /hundreds of devon/(1928-1938)219,242/the hundred of black torrington in early times.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV222017.

Des=king, a. C. /dcra survey a30 whiddon down to tongue end/(26/2/1979)/ (worksheet) in smr.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV222018.

Des=mitchell, m. J. /dcra survey a30 okehampton bypass - a further archaeological report/(1979)/in smr.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV242.

Willey farm. A personal name, "wytheglh" in 1244.(fulford williams). Willey was wythelegh in domesday. It was a submanor of sanfort, held by baldwin the sheriff. Before the conquest it was held by norman. In testa de nevil, 1241, drogo de teignton held it.(reichel).

South West Heritage Trust, 1838-1848, Digitised Tithe Maps and Transcribed Apportionments (Cartographic). SDV359954.

Group of three homesteads (plots 2184, 2187, 2189) depicted on the Sampford Courtenay Tithe Map, at the junction of three roads, one of which leads up onto Dartmoor.

Ordnance Survey, 1880-1899, First Edition Ordnance 25 inch map (Cartographic). SDV336179.

Farmsteads marked as West Willey and East Willey.

Ordnance Survey, 1904 - 1906, Second Edition Ordnance Survey 25 inch Map (Cartographic). SDV325644.

West Willey and East Willey marked. Comparison with the 1880s-1890s Ordnance Survey map shows West Willey to have been almost completely rebuilt with a large planned courtyard range of farm buildings that adjoins the northernmost building of East Willey. The southern range of buildings at East Willey is also shown to have been extended.

Ordnance Survey, 2020, MasterMap 2020 (Cartographic). SDV363413.

Now marked as Willey Farm.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events: none recorded

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