North Bovey

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

Who owned the land

A further 97 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 (1,180 ac); Headland (592 ac); Sanduck (265 ac); Grennawell (193 ac); Rogers Well (156 ac); Leapa (155 ac); Yarde (153 ac); Week (153 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): Rabbit Warren (575 ac); Great Luscombe Moor (16 ac); Keenan Moor (12 ac); Bowden Moor (9 ac); Pound Common (8 ac); Higher Moor Close (7 ac); Cross Common (5 ac); Dinner Bridge (5 ac); Half Furze Park (5 ac); Leat Park (5 ac); Pound Park (4 ac); Heywood Moor (4 ac); Cross Close (4 ac); Hollow Moor (4 ac); Palm Cross (3 ac); Settle Moor (3 ac); Bowdon Moor (3 ac); Buda Moor (3 ac); Cross Lay (3 ac); Well Park (3 ac); Dry Moor (3 ac); Home Moor (3 ac); Middle Croft Moor (3 ac); Minney Moor (3 ac)

Commonest field names: Garden (50); House and Courtlage (21); Meadow (20); House and Garden (20); Moor (18); Lower Meadow (17); Long Close (17); Orchard (16); Plantation (15); Higher Meadow (14)

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.