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Summary

Cudlipptown was a small Domesday manor included in the manor of Tavistock, which was the principal demesne and seat of Tavistock. The manorhouse has been much changed in the late 19th and 20th centuries. Northern part of the manor known as Higher Manor farm.

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX57NW107
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 440020

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• FARMSTEAD (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
• MANOR (Early Medieval - 1066 AD to 1399 AD)

Full description

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

Manor Farm at Cudliptown is depicted on the Tithe Map, comprising a scattered group of buildings, including four dwellings.

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

The late 19th century map depiction is much the same as the Tithe Map.

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

By the early 20th century, a number of the buildings shown on the Tithe Map and the First Edition Ordnance Survey map have gone; three buildings at the front of the farm, close to the road, are no longer shown, as well as a large building set behind the manor house. The property 'Burnshall' has also been built set just behind the main farm buildings to the west.

Gover, J. E. B. + Mawer, A. + Stenton, F. M., 1931, The Place-Names of Devon: Part One, 232 (Monograph). SDV1312.

Cudlipptown is 'Cudelipe' is referred to in 1114-19 and 1238, 'Codelip' and 'Codelipp' in 1238 and 1428, 'Codelepe' in 1303, 'Cuddelypp' in 1474 and 'Cudliptowne' in 1641. The name may refer to
the stream here.

Linehan, C. D., 1966, Deserted Sites and Rabbit-Warrens on Dartmoor, Devon, 137 (Article in Serial). SDV307246.

At the time of Domesday Cudlipptown was included in the manor of Tavistock, which was the principal demesne and seat of Tavistock.

Hemery, E., 1983, High Dartmoor, 953 (Monograph). SDV249702.

Cudlipptown was a small Domesday manor with two ploughing lands, two ploughs and two villeins.

McKay, K., 1994 - 1997, Dartmoor National Park Authority Farmstead Survey 1994-1997 (Report - Survey). SDV344544.

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

Peter Tavy Heritage Group, 2002, The Book of Peter Tavy with Cudlipptown, 133-141 (Monograph). SDV357134.

Manor Farm at Cudlipptown comprised all the buildings to the west of the road. Manor mentioned in the Domesday Book. The front of Manor Farm was rebuilt in the 1880s in order to 'bring it up to date'. In 1953 it was rescued and partly restored.

Ordnance Survey, 2014, MasterMap (Cartographic). SDV355681.

The modern layout of the farm matches the early 20th century map depiction almost exactly.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV8423 - Duchy Farms Project

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