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A parish in Wonford Hundred, the Archdeaconry and Diocese of Exeter."POLTIMORE, 4 miles N.E. of Exeter, includes the small hamlet of RATSLOE, and contains 264 inhabitants, and 1430 acres of land, all the property and manor of Lord Poltimore, who resides occasionally at POLTIM0RE HOUSE, a large square cemented mansion in a beautiful park, stocked with deer, and encompassed by verdant and well-wooded hills. . . . At Domesday Survey, the manor of Poltimore was held in demense by Haimerius de Arcis, but it soon afterwards passed to the Poltimores, who conveyed it in the reign of of Edward I. to Simon Lord Montacute, who sold it to Wm. Pointington, a canon of Exeter. The latter gave it to his pupil, John Bampfylde, or Baumfeld, an ancestor of its present owner. In 1641, John Bampfylde, Esq., was created a baronet, and the late Sir Charles Warvick Bampfylde was the fifth baronet of his family. . . . Lord Goring, who had been quartered at Poltimore with 1500 horse, retired into Essex on the approach of Sir Thomas Fairfax, in October, 1645, when Poltimore House was garrisoned by the latter, with the consent of its owner. The treaty for the surrender of Exeter is said to have been opened here on the 3rd of April, 1646. Sir Coplestone Bampfylde was an active promoter of the restoration of Charles II., and was the first sheriff of Devon after the king's return. . . . The Church (St. Mary,) is an ancient cruciform structure, with a tower and six bells." [From White's Devonshire Directory (1850)]
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McGrady, Richard. John Codrington Bampfylde and William Jackson: the story of a Devonian poet. Devon & Cornwall Notes & Queries 37:03, (1993) pp.90.[John Codrington Bampfylde, writer, 1754-1796]
Whitmore, J.B. Devonshire Monumental Inscriptions, MS at Society of Genealogists (1951). [Extracts]
Poltimore - from J. Stabb. Some Old Devon Churches (London: 1908-16).
Transcripts of the Parish Registers going back to 1718, and of the Bishops' Transcripts going back to 1614, are held in a special collection in the Westcountry Studies Library - for details see Parish Registers in the Devon & Cornwall Record Society's Collection.
The Devon FHS publishes indexes covering (as of June 2004): Baptisms 1813-1840, Marriages 1754-1837, Burials 1800-1837 - for details see their book list.
Entered into the IGI (as of Jan 1993): Parish Church Christenings 1614-1837, and Marriages 1614-1641 (incomplete), 1663-1683, 1716-1837. (These entries are from Bishops' Transcripts.)
The transcription of the section for this parish from the National Gazetteer (1868), provided by Colin Hinson.
Bampfylde, Leonard Martin. The history of the Bampfylde families. Bath: L.M.Bampfylde (1989) 58 leaves: ill. [Westcountry Studies Library - px929.2/BAM]
Granville, Roger. Notes on Poltimore alias Clist Moins and its owners (since 1316) the Bampfyldes. Manuscript [1890] 66p. [Westcountry Studies Library - s929.2/BAM]
Excerpta e cartis familiae de Bamfylde de Poltimore, Devon, Topographer 5, 1821, pp. 59-60. [Pedigree, medieval. ]
Fortescue-Foulkes, R. From Celtic settlement to 20th century hospital...Poltimore Ho. Bridport: C.J.Creed (1971) 42p, plates: ill, map.
Hemming, Joyce. A Dvon Hosue: The Story of Poltimore. University of Plymouth Press (2005) 99pp. [Preview]
R.F.F. A short history of Poltimore. (1956) 8p. [Westcountry Studies Library - sxB/POL/0001/SHO]
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