Drewsteignton

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

Who owned the land

A further 432 acres (6%) 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

Preston (249 ac); Floods Coombhall and Snells Coombhall (242 ac); Great Shilstone (178 ac); Upperton (172 ac); Drewston (168 ac); Broadmoor (166 ac); Crayford (161 ac); Furzedon (161 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): Cross Common (47 ac); Shilstone Moor (46 ac); Justment Moor (14 ac); Round hill Brake (14 ac); Great Beacon Park (10 ac); Well Park (8 ac); Great Church Down (8 ac); West Higher Ley (8 ac); Little Close Moor (8 ac); The Moor and Lamb Park (8 ac); Weir Mill Commons (8 ac); Birch Moor (7 ac); Little Cross Wood and Bottom (7 ac); Ford Park (7 ac); Honeyford Ley (7 ac); Higher Cross Park (6 ac); Little Beacon Park (6 ac); Homer Ley (6 ac); Well Field (6 ac); Leat Merryfield (6 ac); Underdown Moor (6 ac); Chagford Ley (6 ac); Pafford Marsh (5 ac); Ley Brake (5 ac)

Commonest field names: Waste (186); Coppice (41); Garden (37); Orchard (36); Homestead and Yard (33); Meadow (26); Water (21); Back Orchard (16); Higher Orchard (15); Long Close (13)

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.