Gittisham is an historic manor largely co-terminous with the parish of Gittisham in Devon, England, within which is situated the village of Gittisham...
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subsidiary Beaumont manor of Gittisham and changed his family name to Beaumont. This family continued several generations at Gittisham. Philip Beaumont (1432–1473)...
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William Pole (died 1587) (category Members of the pre-1707 English Parliament for constituencies in Cornwall)
the parish of Colyton and secondly of William Beamonte (d.1547), probably a scion of the Beaumont family lords of the manor of Gittisham. Secondly, before...
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Umberleigh (category Former manors in Devon)
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...
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Sidmouth (category Beaches of Devon)
possibly earlier given the presence of Bronze Age burial mounds on Gittisham Hill and Broad Down. The village of Sidbury itself is known to be Saxon in...
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John Heath (later John Duke) (category Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for Honiton)
John Duke) (c.1717–1775), of Gittisham, near Honiton, Devon, was an English politician. He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of Great Britain for Honiton...
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The Manor of Loxhore was a manor in the parish of Loxhore, North Devon, England. In the Domesday Book of 1086 it was a double manor, part of the historic...
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The Manor of Otterton was a medieval manor in East Devon, England. The church at Otterton, dedicated to St Michael, belonged to the monastery of Mont Saint-Michel...
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William Beaumont (1427–1453) (category Lords of the Manor)
Beaumont of Gittisham Cokayne, The Complete Peerage, new edition, Vol. IV, p. 377 Pole, p. 408, Shirwell; also p. 167, Gittesham, with omission of "of Powderham"...
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Thomas-Joseph Trafford of Trafford Park in Lancashire. David Sweet, formerly of Gittisham, Devon, purchased Hillersdon and the manor of Cullompton from Francis...
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