Ch. IV. 



DE VON SHI RE. 



8g 



DE VON SHIRE. 



The only park described as existing in 

 Devonshire at the time of the Domes- 

 day Survey is that of Winchelie, Wink- 

 leigh, or Winkley, in Tyverton Hundred, 

 which had been held by Brictric, and 

 afterwards by Queen Matilda. It is de- 

 scribed as ' parous bestiarum,' and is not 

 noticed, observes Lysons, in any later 

 account.^ The same author has extracted 

 from the writings of Dr. Borde in the 

 reign of Hemy VIII., and those of West- 

 cote in that of Elizabeth, a long list of 

 parks, the greater part of which have been 

 long disused and disparked ; though, as 

 Westcote observes, there were in his time 

 ' some few parks remaining of the great 

 store our fathers could speak of.' In 

 default of a more exact method, it may be 

 convenient to take these lists as printed 

 by Lysons, adding what little I am able 

 from other authorities. Dr. Borde's list 

 commences with — 



I. Umberley, in the parish of Athering- 

 ton. This was the seat of the Willingtons. 



2. Testdck,or Tawj^fJf/J, near Barnstaple, 

 abounds with beautiful scenery. It was 

 the seat of the extinct family of the 

 Bouchiers, Earls of Bath. This park is 

 marked in Saxton's Survey of 1S75- 



3. Mownsatro, or Mohuns Ottery. ' Syr 

 George Carew hath a goodly maner parke 

 at Mohuns Otery.' * The park has long 

 ago, observes Lysons, been converted into 

 tillage. 



' Lyson's Devonshire, p. ccxxx. 



' Leland's Itin. vol, iiii. p. 19, fol. 39. 



' Lysons, p. 100. 



4. Colriche, 



5. Chymley, or Chulmleigh. Here, says 

 Lysons, ' The Courtenay family had a castle 

 and a park, converted into tillage more 

 than 200 years.' ' 



6. Chilitilton, or Chittlehampton. The 

 park of Brightleigh, or Brightley, in this 

 parish, is probably intended, which Lysons 

 also remarks has been converted into 

 tillage. Brightley appears in Saxton's 

 map. 



7. Whitchurch. 



8. Colcombe. This is noticed as a park 

 by Leland, and as ' longging to the Mar- 

 quise of Excester.' * 



9. Coliton, or Colington. 



10. Shute, thus also noticed by Leland: 

 'About a mile or I cam to Colington, I 

 saw from an hille Shoute, a right goodly 

 maner place, a mile of, on an hille-side 

 of the Lord Marquise of Dorsete, and by 

 it a goodly large parke.'* This is an 

 existing park, containing loi acres of land, 

 with a herd of 150 fallow-deer. The Shute 

 estate is held under the Crown, under the 

 condition of at least ten head of deer being 

 kept in the park. There is no other deer 

 park remaining in this western part of 

 Devonshire. The park is fenced in a 

 singular manner, by an earthen baink ten 

 feet high topped with alders. 



11. Wiscan, Wischcum, or Wiscombe. 

 Leland observes, ' The parkes and maner 

 places of Wischum and Shoute, abowt 



* Leland's Itin. vol. iii. p. 70. 

 ' Itin. vol. iii. p. 70, fol. 41. 



