ABBOTSKERSWELL's SPLENDID HERITAGE As Recorded by Historic

ABBOTSKERSWELL’S SPLENDID HERITAGE As recorded by Historic England

Statutory Data

The National Heritage List for England 30 results

Title Type Location Grade TOWN FARMHOUSE, MAIN STREET, TOWN FARMHOUSE Listing ABBOTSKERSWELL, Abbotskerswell, II Teignbridge, Devon CHURCH HOUSE, MAIN STREET, CHURCH HOUSE Listing ABBOTSKERSWELL, Abbotskerswell, II Teignbridge, Devon WILLOW DENE AND WILLOW WILLOW DENE AND WILLOW GROVE, MAIN STREET, Listing II GROVE ABBOTSKERSWELL, Abbotskerswell, Teignbridge, Devon MOTE COTTAGE, MAIN STREET, MOTE COTTAGE Listing ABBOTSKERSWELL, Abbotskerswell, II Teignbridge, Devon MOTE HOUSE, MAIN STREET, MOTE HOUSE Listing ABBOTSKERSWELL, Abbotskerswell, II Teignbridge, Devon THATCHES AND PARK VIEW, PRIORY THATCHES AND PARK VIEW Listing ROAD, ABBOTSKERSWELL, II Abbotskerswell, Teignbridge, Devon ROSE COTTAGES, SLADE LANE, ROSE COTTAGES Listing ABBOTSKERSWELL, Abbotskerswell, II Teignbridge, Devon CORNER COTTAGE AND CROSS CORNER COTTAGE AND VIEW, SLADE LANE, Listing II CROSS VIEW ABBOTSKERSWELL, Abbotskerswell, Teignbridge, Devon LANGFORD BRIDGE, LANGFORD BRIDGE Listing II Abbotskerswell, Teignbridge, Devon TWO MILE OAK INN, TWO MILE OAK INN Listing II Abbotskerswell, Teignbridge, Devon HEADSTONE HEADSTONE APPROXIMATELY 1 1/2 APPROXIMATELY 1 1/2 METRES SOUTH-WEST OF CHURCH Listing II METRES SOUTH-WEST OF OF ST MARY, ABBOTSKERSWELL, CHURCH OF ST MARY Abbotskerswell, Teignbridge, Devon CHEST TOMB CHEST TOMB APPROXIMATELY 2 Listing II APPROXIMATELY 2 METRES METRES SOUTH-EAST OF CHANCEL SOUTH-EAST OF CHANCEL OF OF CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH OF ST MARY ABBOTSKERSWELL, Abbotskerswell, Teignbridge, Devon THOMAS HENLEY THOMAS HENLEY HEADSTONE HEADSTONE APPROXIMATELY 3 METRES SOUTH- APPROXIMATELY 3 METRES Listing WEST OF CHURCH OF ST MARY, II SOUTH-WEST OF CHURCH OF ABBOTSKERSWELL, Abbotskerswell, ST MARY Teignbridge, Devon COURT FARM INN, COURT FARM INN Listing ABBOTSKERSWELL, Abbotskerswell, II Teignbridge, Devon ROCK COTTAGE, MAIN STREET, ROCK COTTAGE Listing ABBOTSKERSWELL, Abbotskerswell, II Teignbridge, Devon YEOMAN'S COTTAGE, MAIN YEOMAN'S COTTAGE Listing STREET, ABBOTSKERSWELL, II Abbotskerswell, Teignbridge, Devon MODEL COTTAGE AND THE QUEST, MODEL COTTAGE AND THE Listing MAIN STREET, ABBOTSKERSWELL, II QUEST Abbotskerswell, Teignbridge, Devon ABBOTSFORD, MAIN STREET, ABBOTSFORD Listing ABBOTSKERSWELL, Abbotskerswell, II Teignbridge, Devon ELM COTTAGE, MAIN STREET, ELM COTTAGE Listing ABBOTSKERSWELL, Abbotskerswell, II Teignbridge, Devon ODLE HILL COTTAGE, MAIN STREET, ODLE HILL COTTAGE Listing ABBOTSKERSWELL, Abbotskerswell, II Teignbridge, Devon PROSPECT COTTAGE, MAIN STREET, PROSPECT COTTAGE Listing ABBOTSKERSWELL, Abbotskerswell, II Teignbridge, Devon ALL'S WELL COTTAGE, MAIN ALL'S WELL COTTAGE Listing STREET, ABBOTSKERSWELL, II Abbotskerswell, Teignbridge, Devon CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH OF ST MARY Listing ABBOTSKERSWELL, Abbotskerswell, II* Teignbridge, Devon HENLEY HEADSTONE HENLEY HEADSTONE APPROXIMATELY 2 METRES WEST APPROXIMATELY 2 METRES Listing OF CHURCH OF ST MARY, II WEST OF CHURCH OF ST ABBOTSKERSWELL, Abbotskerswell, MARY Teignbridge, Devon LYCH GATE APPROXIMATELY LYCH GATE APPROXIMATELY 5 5 METRES TO SOUTH-WEST Listing METRES TO SOUTH-WEST OF II OF CHURCH OF ST MARY CHURCH OF ST MARY, ABBOTSKERSWELL, Abbotskerswell, Teignbridge, Devon CHURCH COTTAGES, 1 AND 2, CHURCH COTTAGES Listing ABBOTSKERSWELL, Abbotskerswell, II Teignbridge, Devon MONK'S THATCH, MAIN STREET, MONK'S THATCH Listing ABBOTSKERSWELL, Abbotskerswell, II Teignbridge, Devon TOWN FARM COTTAGE, 1, MAIN TOWN FARM COTTAGE Listing STREET, ABBOTSKERSWELL, II* Abbotskerswell, Teignbridge, Devon TOWN FARM COTTAGE, 2, MAIN TOWN FARM COTTAGE Listing STREET, ABBOTSKERSWELL, II Abbotskerswell, Teignbridge, Devon ROSE COTTAGES*, 3, SLADE LANE, ROSE COTTAGES* Listing ABBOTSKERSWELL, Abbotskerswell, II Teignbridge, Devon

National Designation Decisions

Designation Decision Records (De-listed entries) No records

Designation Decision Records (Non-designated entries) 2 results Designation Decision Records (Non-designated entries) Recommendations not to add a building, monument or wreck site to the National Heritage List for England (NHLE) are made by Historic England. The Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport will then make a decision. For parks, gardens and battlefields Historic England makes the decision on whether or not to add it to the NHLE. These decisions are detailed in this section.

Designation Decision Records (Non-designated entries) returned 2 records matching your search.

Title Type Location Grade Toll House, Kingskerswell Road, Langford Bridge, Abbotskerswell, Listing NL

Langford bri... Newton Abbot, Abbotskerswell, Teignbridge, Devon The Butchers' Butchers Arms, Abbotskerswell, Newton Abbot, TQ12 Listing NL

Arms, Abbo... 5PE, Abbotskerswell, Teignbridge, Devon

National Record of the Historic Environment (NRHE).

The information within PastScape is taken directly from the National Record of the Historic Environment (NRHE). The NRHE contains over 410,000 records on the archaeology and buildings of England and its territorial waters. Title Location Description

MONUMENT NO. 446375 Devon Alleged sites for two round barrows....

MONUMENT NO. 446202 Devon C16 church house....

MONUMENT NO. 446205 Devon Ladewell... Medieval stocks (not in situ). The

MONUMENT NO. 1231448 Devon stocks were recorded in the south porch of the church during an ... Lych gate built in 1603 and extensively

MONUMENT NO. 446162 Devon restored in 1899. Built of rendered rubble with a hipped sl...

MONUMENT NO. 446201 Devon C18 Toll house.... No 1 Town Farm Cottage late 15thc

MONUMENT NO. 446222 Devon farmhouse with 16th/17thc alterations... Parish Church. 13th century fabric to

ST MARYS CHURCH Devon chancel; nave, aisle and tower 15th century, restored by But... There was probably a Mediaeval

MONUMENT NO. 446169 Devon oratory at Abbotskerswell....

In 1066 William of Normandy defeated the English under King Harold at the Battle of Hastings, Harold was killed and William was crowned King. Most of the land owned by the English nobles was confiscated and granted by King William to his followers. The social life of England at this time revolved around the Manor. This was the basic farming unit and could be a sub-division of a parish or could spread over two parishes. The Manor was held by a Lord who might farm it himself or, more likely, let it to tenants. The Lord or his tenant would then sub-divide the land into that for his own farm and that for his villagers. The villagers would then farm their land and provide labour for the farming of the Lord's land. In 1085 William, whilst at Gloucester, sent Commissioners to all parts of the country to find out what each landowner held in land and livestock and what it was worth. To check this survey a second set of Commissioners were sent to report on the first. The Commissioners were major land owners and included Bishops and Knights; they presided over areas unfamiliar to them. The Commissioners were told to ask the following:

 The name of the place, who held it before 1066 and now?  How many hides (a land unit roughly 120 acres)?  How many plough teams owned by the Lord and his men?  How many villagers, cottagers, slaves?  How many woodland, pasture, mills and fishponds?  The presence of a church?  How much the revenue to the King was worth?

Once the Commissioners had obtained relevant information a rough draft was written by the clerks who accompanied them. This draft is now in the Cathedral Library at Exeter. The final draft was prepared by the Exchequer officials at Winchester and was written down in abbreviated Latin and Roman numerals. When this was carried out the work was compiled into two volumes known as the 'descriptio' meaning a 'writing down'. Later it was called the Book of Winchester, because it was kept in the Royal Treasury there. By 1170 it was popularly being called the Domesday Book because like the Day of Judgement - Domesday - there could be no appeal against what it contained. The survey was presented to William in Salisbury on 1 August 1086 and his acceptance of it was his last act as King of England for he returned to Normandy and died the following year. The Domesday Book, therefore, is a unique historical document and from it we can get an accurate impression of life in Norman England. The Domesday Book is now in the Public Records Office in Chancery Lane where it may be viewed.

Glossary

To understand the entries in the survey it is important to understand various terms, these are as follows:

Hundred A division of a shire especially important in Saxon and Norman times. Sulung A Kent term, this was a variable measure depending on the soil quality and was the amount of land that could be cultivated using an 8 ox plough team. This was approximately 120 acres. Acre Originally a stretch of land of no particular size or nature, came to mean land cleared for cultivation or grazing. In open-field farming it then came to mean as large a strip as could be ploughed by a yoke of oxen in a day. Meadow A piece of grassland especially used for growing hay. Pasture Land used to provide herbage for cattle very similar to meadow. Woodland Often the area of woodland was defined by the number of pigs it would support. The pigs would be allowed to roam the woodlands foraging for food. Ploughs Literally the number of plough teams that worked the land divided into those owned by the Lord and those by the tenant. Where there is a team it is presumed that the tenants shared a team with a neighbouring settlement. Villagers or villeins A medieval peasant cultivating land in the village fields in return for labour service on the manorial farm. Smallholder Men who held land which was not strictly part of the manor, they owed their Lord (often the Lord of the nearest manor) certain dues in the form of money and services. Cottagers or cottars Unfree peasants with either a garden or up to five acres of land, probably living in a cottage away from the village. Slave Labourer who did most of the work on the manorial farm. They did not normally have any land of their own, and had to be housed and fed at the Lord's expense. It must be remembered that only the heads of households are included in the survey. To obtain a rough population figure the total should be multiplied by four.