Buckland Monachorum

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

Who owned the land

A further 285 acres (4%) have no owner recorded: commons and waste.

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

Houses, Gardens, Common, Roads, Water, Waste etc., (2,175 ac); Buckland Barton Estate (781 ac); Crapstone Estate (238 ac); Bickham Estate (221 ac); Pound Estate (140 ac); Horrabeer Farm (131 ac); Lake Farm (112 ac); Axtown Estate (110 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): Pound Park (9 ac); Church Town Meadow (8 ac); Middle Leat Field (7 ac); North Devon Moor (7 ac); Higher Warren (6 ac); Lower Warren (6 ac); Outside Leat Field (6 ac); Moor Park (5 ac); Higher Moor (5 ac); Little Quarry Park (5 ac); Lower Moor (5 ac); Great Quarry Park (5 ac); Lower Cross Lane Field (5 ac); Higher Cross Lane Field (5 ac); Higher Tor Lane End Field (4 ac); Little Furze Brake (4 ac); Little Leat Field (4 ac); Bridge Park (4 ac); Lower Tor Lane End Field (4 ac); Lobby or Stock Hill Quarry (4 ac); Tor Field (3 ac); Higher Well Park (3 ac); Lower Well Park (3 ac); Church Meadow (3 ac)

Commonest field names: Orchard (115); Garden (87); House & garden (39); House etc. (32); Plantation (29); House (20); Barn Park (20); Waste (20); Lower Meadow (19); Meadow (19)

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.