Tytherleigh

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Tytherleigh
Dorset
Chardstock, The Tytherleigh Arms - geograph.org.uk - 161573.jpg
The Tytherleigh Arms
Location
Grid reference: ST319032
Location: 50°49’33"N, 2°58’8"W
Data
Post town: Axminster
Postcode: EX13
Local Government
Council: East Devon

Tytherleigh is a village in the parish of Chardstock in Dorset, close to the borders with Devon and Somerset. It is situated on the A358 road between the towns of Axminster (Devon) and Chard (Somerset).

The place-name, first recorded in 1154 as Tiderlege, is from the Old English tīedre "thin" or "tender" and lēah "woodland", and therefore means "thin or tender woodland".[1]

The Tytherleigh Arms public house in the village displays the Tytherleigh family coat of arms on its sign. The Tytherleigh family lived at Tytherleigh Manor for about 500 years until 1729.[2] Part of Tytherleigh manor house survives as a farmhouse, dating from the 16th century,[3] with a gateway arch bearing the family coat of arms.[4]

The village is on the route of the Fosse Way Roman road.

References

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  1. Watts, Victor, ed. (2010), "Tytherleigh", The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names, Cambridge University Press 
  2. Judy Cannon (2014). The Tytherleigh Tribe. p. 12. ISBN 978 1 906551 37 7. 
  3. National Heritage List 1169976: Tytherleigh
  4. National Heritage List 1098590: Tytherleigh