Chagford

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

Who owned the land

A further 129 acres (2%) 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

Commons (1,671 ac); Rushford Barton (326 ac); Thornworthy (323 ac); Yadworthy (184 ac); Way Barton (178 ac); Hole and Collyhole (149 ac); Venn (148 ac); Nattadon Common Ground Down Park and Westcott (146 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): Ford Park (17 ac); Venn Moor (13 ac); Mill Marsh (11 ac); Bridge Marsh (8 ac); Round down (8 ac); Pound Meadow (6 ac); Pound House Meadow (6 ac); Dozey Moor (6 ac); Round washford (6 ac); Furze Hill (6 ac); Higher Bridge park (5 ac); Great Wadley Moor (5 ac); Furze park (5 ac); Bridge gate (5 ac); Higher Ley (5 ac); River Island & Mill Leat (5 ac); Ducks Moor (5 ac); Rye Arrish Moor (4 ac); Higher Mill Hill (4 ac); Furze down (4 ac); Lower Bridge park (4 ac); Wadley Moor (4 ac); Home Calbery Church (4 ac); Chapel Meadow (4 ac)

Commonest field names: Garden (67); Orchard (57); Moor (43); Meadow (34); Cottages (23); Long Close (23); Copse (20); Waste (19); Plantation (18); Part of River (15)

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.