Rashleigh Barton

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Rashleigh Barton
Devon

Rashleigh Barton
Location
Grid reference: SS67191288
Location: 50°54’0"N, 3°53’24"W
History
Country house
Information

Rashleigh Barton is a small manor house which presided over the historic manor of Rashleigh in the parish of Wembworthy, in Devon. The house is a Grade II* listed building, situated 5 miles north-east of the village of Wembworthy itself.[1] It was the earliest known seat of the ancient Rashleigh family, a junior branch of which is still seated at Menabilly in Cornwall, but in the 16th century, on the failure of the male line, the estate passed from the senior line of the Rashleigh family via a sole heiress to the Clotworthy family of Clotworthy in the same parish of Wembworthy.[2]

References

  1. Rashleigh Barton - British Listed Buildings
  2. Vivian, p.203
  • Marshall, James C., Rashleigh of Devon, Devon Notes and Queries Volume IV, Part VI, April 1907, pp. 201-215
  • Nikolaus Pevsner: The Buildings of England: Devon, 1952; 1989 Penguin Books ISBN 978-0-300-09596-8
  • Lauder, Rosemary Anne, A Tale of Two Rivers, Bideford, 1986, pp. 69–70, Rashleigh Barton
  • Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry, 15th Edition, ed. Pirie-Gordon, H., London, 1937, pp. 1891–3, Rashleigh of Menabilly
  • Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, pp. 203–4, pedigree of Clotworthy of Clotworthy and of Rashleigh