South Milton
| South Milton | |
| Devon | |
|---|---|
 All Saints, South Milton | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SX698428 |
| Location: | 50°16’17"N, 3°49’41"W |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Kingsbridge |
| Postcode: | TQ7 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | South Hams |
South Milton is a village in Devon, a mile and a half inland, about two miles south-west of Kingsbridge. The parish includes the hamlets of Sutton, south of the village, and Upton, north of the village.
The stream running through the village enters Bigbury Bay on the English Channel coast, just over a mile north of the headland known as Bolt Tail. A lane runs down from South Milton to the beach, known here as South Milton Sands.
Parish church
The parish church is dedicated to All Saints. It is a mediæval building.[1]
The manor of Milton
The village was anciently known as 'Middleton'. It appears in the Domesday Book as Mideltone, then is rendered Middleton by Tristan Risdon,[2] and later as Middelton.
The Domesday Book records that the manor of Mideltone was one of the 22[3] Devonshire holdings of Alfred the Breton, one of the Devon Domesday Book tenants-in-chief of King William the Conqueror.
Horswell House, an 18th-century mansion within the parish, was anciently a seat of the Roope family,[4] also of East Allington, whose heir in 1761 was the Ilbert family.[5]
The manor was held in 1295[6] by James "de Mosom"[7] (or "de Mohun", according to Pole]], apparently a member of the Mohuns, feudal barons of Dunster]] in Somerset).[8] Later the manor passed to the Pipard family (recorded in 1345) then through marriage falling to the Carew family of Haccombe, Devon, by whom sold to Sir James Bagg[9] of Saltram, near Plymouth.
The manor was subsequently the property of Sir William Morice[10] (1602-1676) of Werrington in Devon, who served King Charles II as Secretary of State for the Northern Department and a Lord of the Treasury from June 1660 to September 1668.
References
- ↑ Nikolaus Pevsner: The Buildings of England: Devon, 1952; 1989 Penguin Books ISBN 978-0-300-09596-8page 747
- ↑ Risdon, Tristram: 'A Survey of Devon' (1632), 1810 edition, p 177
- ↑ Thorn & Thorn, Part 1, 39:15
- ↑ Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.): 'The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620' (1895) p.657
- ↑ Pevsner, p.748
- ↑ Risdon, p.177, regnal date 24 Edward I
- ↑ Risdon, p.177
- ↑ Pole, Sir William (d.1635): 'Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon' (1791 edition; p.304)
- ↑ Risdon, p.177; Pole, p.304
- ↑ Risdon, p.177