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| HER Number: | MDV55578 |
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| Name: | Watton Farm |
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Summary
Watton.
Location
| Grid Reference: | SY 006 841 |
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| Map Sheet: | SY08SW |
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| Admin Area | Devon |
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| Civil Parish | Lympstone |
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| District | East Devon |
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| Ecclesiastical Parish | LYMPSTONE |
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Protected Status: none recorded
Other References/Statuses
- Old DCC SMR Ref: SY08SW/298
Monument Type(s) and Dates
- FARMSTEAD (Early Medieval to XIX - 1066 AD to 1900 AD (Between))
Full description
SEE GOVER, Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV126111.
Watton. First documented as wottone in 1330 (see gover). In 1700 it consisted of one messuage with 2 tenements with 42 acres (see dro). The farm had expanded by 1803 to include a messuage of 3 barns, 3 linhays, 3 stables, 3 curtilages, 3 gardens, 3 orchards + 50 acres of land (see dro). Polwhele, writing at the end of the 18c, described it as the 'village of watton washed by the watton brook' where the manufacture of lace took place.
Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV126113.
Weddell, p. J. /archaeological assessment of proposed dcc dinan way link exmouth/(1995)5/(emafu report 95.46).
Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV126114.
Gover, j. E. B. + mawer, a. + stenton, f. M. /the place-names of devon/(1931)591.
Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV126115.
Dro=t465.
Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV126116.
Dro=346m/t439-509.461.
Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV126117.
Polwhele, r. /history of devonshire/(1793-1806)211-13.
Weddell, P. J., Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV6252.
The farm is situated to the n of wotton lane, with 2 groups of buildings, one adjoining the farm and a second to the s of the lane. A further group of buildings is shown to w of watton brook. These probably represent the tenements of watton farm. By 1888 a number of buildings, presumably barns and outbuildings have been demolished. A track is shown on the os surveyors draft of 1801-4 to se of watton farm. It is not shown on the tm, produced c.40 years later, or any subsequent maps. Its origins are unknown, but it may have provided access to further dwellings or barns etc (weddell).
Cotswold Archaeology, 2011, Land at Courtlands Cross, Exmouth, Devon: Assessment of Potential Impacts upon the setting of Designated Heritage Assets and Heritage Impact Assessment, Appendix A, 9 (Report - non-specific). SDV351225.
Sources / Further Reading
| SDV126111 | Migrated Record: SEE GOVER. |
| SDV126113 | Migrated Record: |
| SDV126114 | Migrated Record: |
| SDV126115 | Migrated Record: |
| SDV126116 | Migrated Record: |
| SDV126117 | Migrated Record: |
| SDV351225 | Report - non-specific: Cotswold Archaeology. 2011. Land at Courtlands Cross, Exmouth, Devon: Assessment of Potential Impacts upon the setting of Designated Heritage Assets and Heritage Impact Assessment. Cotswold Archaeology Report. 11103 + 09170. A4 Stapled + Digital. Appendix A, 9. |
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| SDV6252 | Migrated Record: Weddell, P. J.. |
Associated Monuments: none recorded
Associated Finds: none recorded
Associated Events: none recorded
| Date Last Edited: | May 21 2013 2:27PM |
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