Belstone

Tithe apportionment, c.1840. Part of the parish index.

Who owned the land

Who farmed it

Where the occupier is also the owner they are not listed here; where no owner is recorded the occupier is shown.

What the land was

The biggest named holdings

East Lake (113 ac); West Lake (77 ac); Green Hill (70 ac); Tor Down (59 ac); Higher Sticklepath (53 ac); Robins (48 ac); Barton (46 ac); Town Living (45 ac)

These are the estate or holding names written in the survey.

Names on the old map

Single-use names worth a look (names with a landscape or history word that occur once): Quarry Down (7 ac); Tor Down Close (5 ac); Great Furze Hill (4 ac); Lower Moor Down (3 ac); West Church Park (3 ac); East Cross Park (2 ac); West Cross Park (2 ac); Lower Furze Close (2 ac); Moor Plot (2 ac); Middle Furze Close (2 ac); Higher West Church Park (2 ac); Church Meadow (2 ac); Well Meadow (1 ac); Little Furze Hill (1 ac); Mill Meadow (1 ac); Church and Yard (1 ac); Pound (0 ac); Chapel and Yard (0 ac); The Pound (0 ac)

Commonest field names: Garden (43); Meadow (11); House (10); House and Yard (8); Orchard (8); Plantation (7); Waste (7); Houses and Yard (6); Bewtown (6); House and Garden (5)

Places on our site on or beside this land

Credit: Tithe polygons: Devon Tithe Mapping Polygonisation Project (Adnams 2023), © Devon County Council and Devon Heritage Centre, CC BY 4.0. Transcriptions: Devon County Council. The records may contain errors and duplicate entries; owner names are merged by rule where plainly the same person.