Umberleigh
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thumb|200px|The Georgian Umberleigh House, a Listed buildings|Grade I listed building, a remnant of the grand 16th-century mansion of the [[Basset family, on the west bank of the River Taw, 1 mile northwest of Umberleigh Bridge, now in the parish of Atherington. It was anciently the manor house of Umberleigh, site of the mediaeval Umberleigh Chapel, the ruins of which survive, and supposedly of the 10th-century royal palace of King Æthelstan.]]
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Descent of the manor
- King Athelstan
- Norman Conquest
- Soleigney family
- Champernon/Champernowne family
- Willington family
- Rail transport
- Sources
- References
- External links
thumb|200px|The Georgian Umberleigh House, a Listed buildings|Grade I listed building, a remnant of the grand 16th-century mansion of the [[Basset family, on the west bank of the River Taw, 1 mile northwest of Umberleigh Bridge, now in the parish of Atherington. It was anciently the manor house of Umberleigh, site of the mediaeval Umberleigh Chapel, the ruins of which survive, and supposedly of the 10th-century royal palace of King Æthelstan.]]
Umberleigh is a former large manor within the historic hundred of (North) Tawton, but today a small village in North Devon in England. It used to be an ecclesiastical parish, but following the building of the church at Atherington it became a part of that parish. It forms however a part of the civil parish of Chittlehampton, which is mostly located on the east side of the River Taw.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Umberleigh” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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