Lustleigh

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

Who owned the land

A further 694 acres (23%) 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

Part of Barne Estate (331 ac); Peppedon (254 ac); Part of Barn and Narramore Estate (162 ac); Part of North Harton Estate (131 ac); Caseley Estate and Thorne Parks (129 ac); South Harton Estate (129 ac); Rudge Estate (108 ac); Fursdon Estate (96 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): Petherbridge Moor (9 ac); Lower Great moor (8 ac); Dennick's Well (7 ac); Mill Bottom (6 ac); Cross Park (6 ac); Boveycoombe Marsh (5 ac); Lower East Moor (5 ac); Lower Barn Cross (5 ac); Great Marsh (5 ac); Yonder East Moor (5 ac); Higher Marsh Hill (5 ac); Grattna Moor (5 ac); Kelly Marsh (4 ac); Home East Moor (4 ac); First Foswell Moor (4 ac); Meery Moor (4 ac); Higher Barn Cross (4 ac); Second Foswell Moor (4 ac); Furze Close (4 ac); Peck Moor (4 ac); Lower Stone Hill Moor (4 ac); Eastern Moor (3 ac); Well Mear (3 ac); Lower Marsh (3 ac)

Commonest field names: Garden (58); Plantation (8); Potatoe Plot (8); Great Meadow (7); Rock Park (7); Lower Meadow (7); Little Orchard (7); Higher Meadow (6); Little Meadow (6); Long Close (6)

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.