Whitchurch

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

Who owned the land

A further 2,055 acres (34%) 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

Walreddon (318 ac); Ash (151 ac); Lower Longford (137 ac); Sourtridge (129 ac); Heckwood (127 ac); Oakley (125 ac); Em Grimstone (109 ac); Lower Grenofen (87 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): Round Wood (21 ac); Tor Park (14 ac); Quarry Wood (13 ac); Little Tor Park (10 ac); Great Cross Park (10 ac); Castle Park (7 ac); Great Moor Plot (7 ac); Leat Park (6 ac); Moor under Backside (6 ac); Higher Quarry Park (5 ac); Pages Higher Moor (5 ac); Beacon Park (5 ac); Pages Middle Moor (5 ac); Outer Leat Park (4 ac); Moor (4 ac); Yonder Moor (4 ac); Higher Cross Park (4 ac); Homer Leat Park (4 ac); Homer Church Park (4 ac); Higher Tor Park (4 ac); Middle Well Park (4 ac); Mill Mead (3 ac); Outer Moor (3 ac); Lower Gads Moor (3 ac)

Commonest field names: Garden (80); Orchard (44); Plantation (39); House and Garden (33); Houses and Yard (27); Waste (26); Mowhay (22); Bove Town (19); Lower Meadow (19); Road (18)

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.