Escot
| Escot | |
| Devon | |
|---|---|
 Escot House | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SY08239811 |
| Location: | 50°46’31"N, 3°18’10"W |
| Data | |
| Local Government | |
Escot is a hamlet in eastern Devon, founded on the Escot Estate of which Escot House is the manor house, and barely consisting of anything but the estate, with its attendant cottages, and the parish church.
The earliest holder of the estate was the de Escote family which, as was usual,[1] took its surname from the estate. The Devon historian William Pole (fl. To 1635) states that it "hath taken his name from the situacion", presumably meaning that it was a cott (a mediæval farmstead) on the east side of the manor of Talaton.[2] In 1249 it was occupied by the widow Domina Lucia de Escote ('Lady Lucy de Escote'), who was succeeded by her son Baldwyn de Lestre.[3]
Church
The ecclesiastical parish of Escot was created in 1839, comprising small areas taken from the surrounding parishes of Ottery St Mary, Feniton and Talaton. The parish church of St Philip and St James was built by Sir John Kennaway, 2nd Baronet on his estate and was consecrated in 1840.[4]
Escot Park
Escot Park, the surrounding 220-acre park designed by Capability Brown in the 18th century, and the gardens, are open to the public. Escot Park is used for events including the annual "Beautiful Days" music festival and occasional other outdoor music and theatre performances.[5]
References
- ↑ Risdon, Tristram: 'A Survey of Devon' (1632)
- ↑ Pole, Sir William: Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon (c 1630; 1791 ed p.179)
- ↑ Pole, pp. 179–80
- ↑ '[The Evolution of Escot', from Heritage, the Journal of the Ottery St Mary Heritage Society, No.41, Spring, 2012, p.5]
- ↑ Copping, Jasper (29 October 2013). "Daughter of stately home owner apologises for party heard three miles away". The Telegraph (The Telegraph). https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/10412512/Daughter-of-stately-home-owner-apologises-for-party-heard-three-miles-away.html. Retrieved 16 August 2016.
- Journals of the Reverend John Swete (vol. 2) (published in Travels in Georgian Devon: The Illustrated Journals of Reverend John Swete, 1789-1800, ed. Todd Gray & Margery Rowe, 1999) ISBN 978-0861149186
- Polwhele, Richard, History of Devonshire, Vol.3, pp. 271–2
- Channon, L..: 'The Fall and Rise of a Country Estate' (Ottery Heritage, 2012)
