North Huish
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| North Huish | |
| Devon | |
|---|---|
 North Huish | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SX711565 |
| Location: | 50°23’41"N, 3°48’53"W |
| Data | |
| Postcode: | TQ10 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | South Hams |
North Huish is a village in the south of Devon, about eight miles south-west of the town of Totnes. The parish had a population of 360 at the 2001 census.
St Mary's Church
St Mary's Church, the parish church built in the 14th century, is now a redundant church in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.[1] It was declared redundant on 1 March 1993, and was vested in the Trust on 10 August 1998.[2]
Manors
During the reign of King Richard I (1189-1199) the manor ("Northiwis") was held by John Damarell,[3] whose male descendants held it for many generations. It then passed to the Trenchard family and thence to Tremain[4] (alias Tremayn) of Collacombe.[5]
Within the parish are situated various historic estates including:
- Norreys,[6] a seat of the le Norreys family until the reign of King Edward III (1327-1377),[7] when the heiress married Sir John Fortescue (fl.1422) of Shepham,[8] Captain of the captured Castle of Meaux, 25 miles north-east of Paris, following the Siege of Meaux during the Hundred Years' War.
- Boterford.[9]
- Black Hall, a seat of a junior branch of the Fowell family of nearby Fowelscombe[10] in the parish of Ugborough.
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References
- ↑ St Mary's Church, North Huish, Devon, Churches Conservation Trust, http://www.visitchurches.org.uk/Ourchurches/Completelistofchurches/St-Marys-Church-North-Huish-Devon/, retrieved 2 April 2011
- ↑ (PDF) Diocese of Exeter: All Schemes, Church Commissioners/Statistics, Church of England, 2011, p. 4, http://www.churchofengland.org/media/810520/exeter%20-%20all%20schemes.pdf, retrieved 2 April 2011
- ↑ Pole, Sir William (d.1635), Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon' ( p 300 in the 1791 edition)
- ↑ Risdon, Tristram: 'A Survey of Devon' (1632), 1810 edition, p 179
- ↑ Pole, p.300
- ↑ Pole, p.300
- ↑ Risdon, p.179
- ↑ Pole, p.301
- ↑ Risdon, p.180
- ↑ Polwhele, Richard, History of Devonshire, 3 Vols., London, 1793, Vol.3, p.460
