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Summary

Situated in a sheltered hollow, facing south, Bowden is first documented as Boghedoune in 1330. In 1639, the farm was sold to Buckland Manor, who let it out to various tenants, including the Burnell family, who lived in the house until the early 19th century. Smerdons also lived in one of the tenements. Farm unified in the early 19th century.

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX77SW/300/3

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• FARMSTEAD (First mentioned, XIII to XIV - 1300 AD? to 1330 AD (Between))

Full description

Devon County Council, 1838-1848, Tithe Mosaic, approximately 1838-1848 (Cartographic). SDV349431.

Bowden marked on Tithe Map comprising a dwelling house orientated south-west to north-east with attached agricultural building at the north-eastern end and two ranges of buildings immediately south, one aligned south-west to north-east, the other north-west to south-east.

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

Bowden marked showing the three ranges of buildings depicted on the Tithe Map with an additional building to the west of the farmhouse.

Gover, J. E. B. + Mawer, A. + Stenton, F. M., 1931, The Place-Names of Devon: Part One, 525 (Monograph). SDV1312.

Bowden first appears as Boghedoune in 1330 in the lay subsidy rolls. The name means means bow-shaped hill.

Belsey, P. M., 1987, Bowden Farm (Worksheet). SDV283223.

Bowden Farm is mentioned in various documents held at the Devon Heritage Centre (formerly Devon Record Office). There are considerable differences in plan of farm buildings between the Tithe Map and Apportionment of 1825 and the 1964 Ordnance Survey map.

Dartmoor National Park Authority, 1993 - 1997, Dartmoor National Park Authority Farmstead Survey 1993-1997 (Report - Survey). SDV344544.

Farmstead included in survey. Visited on 28/02/1995.

Brown, M., 1996, A guide to the Parish of Buckland-in-the-Moor, 16-17, 19 (Monograph). SDV361770.

The Woolcott family owned the farm in the late 16th century, and may have built the longhouse. The property was also owned by the Jennynge family in the early 17th century, who then sold it to Buckland Manor in 1639 for £200. Amongst the first of the Manor's tenants there was John Burnell; the Burnell family retained their tenancy (which included the longhouse) until the early 19th century.
The farmstead was split in these early centuries, into sub-tenements. In later centuries, there were Smerdons (who began their long occupation at Elliott's Hill in 1639) living at Bowden as well.

Ordnance Survey, 2013, MasterMap (Cartographic). SDV350786.

Sanders, J. + Dallimore, J., Spring 2001, Bowden Farmstead, Buckland-In-The-Moor, 5-11 (Article in Serial). SDV351616.

South facing farmstead situated in a sheltered hollow.

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