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Roborough is a village and civil parish {{convert|5.5|mi|abbr=on}} from Great Torrington. Situated topographically on the plateau between the Torridge and Taw Rivers, the parish covers {{convert|1258|ha|abbr=on}} and contains a population of some 258 parishioners. It is surrounded by a pastoral landscape of rectangular fields, high hedges and scattered farmsteads.

Historic estates

Various historic estates are situated within the parish of Roborough, including:

Owlacombe

The estate of OLECU(M)BE is listed in the Domesday Book of 1086 as the 7th of the 27 Devonshire holdings of Theobald FitzBerner (fl.1086),^[1] an Anglo-Norman warrior and magnate, one of the Devon Domesday Book tenants-in-chief of King William the Conqueror. His tenant was Gotshelm. The mansion house survives today as "Owlacombe", south-west of the village of Roborough.

Combe / Over Wollocombe

Much confusion exists in historical sources concerning the estates of Over Wollocombe and Combe, which appear to refer to the same place. Over Wollocombe, a seat of the Wollocombe family, was stated by Pole (d.1635) to have been situated in the parish of Roborough:^[2]

Certainly in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries many members of the Wollocombe family "of Combe" were baptised, married and buried at Roborough.^[3] The family became extinct in the male line on the death of Roger Wollocombe (1632-1704), buried at Roborough, who left two or three surviving daughters as his co-heiresses. The 5th-born daughter Mary Wollocombe (1666-1701) married John Stafford (1674-1721) of Stafford Barton in the nearby parish of Dolton, whose eldest son Roger Stafford (1696-1732) assumed the surname Wollocombe in lieu of his patronymic, following the death of his uncle Roger Wollocombe (1632-1704). He died without surviving male progeny, when his heir became his younger brother Thomas Stafford (1697-1756), who likewise assumed the surname Wollocombe and was buried at Roborough. He married a daughter of the prominent Rolle family. His sons adopted the surname Stafford-Wollocombe. His daughter Henrietta Stafford (born 1732) married Henry Hole of Ebberly, in the parish of Roborough. Her son Thomas Hole in 1819 was resident at Stafford Barton.^[4] The Stafford-Wollocombe family later moved to Bidlake in the parish of Bridestowe, having inherited that estate by marriage.^[5]

Ebberly

Ebberly is a hamlet within Roborough parish. The hamlet has several prominent white houses by the roadside, a mansion house known as Ebberly Barton and a Methodist chapel.

The estate of Ebberley is first recorded, as Emberlegh, in the 13th century Book of Fees.^[13] In the mediaeval era it was the seat of the de Ebberleigh^[14] family which had taken its surname from its seat. During the reign of King Henry VI (1422-1461) following the death of Walter de Ebberleigh with no surviving son, the estate passed to Roger Davy (alias Dewy) who had married Walter's daughter and heiress Thomasine de Ebberleigh.^[15] The Davy family remained seated at Ebberly until after 1620.^[16]

William Davie of Ebberleigh was a Member of Parliament for Barnstaple in 1446.^[17] His son Richard Davie had two sons, William the elder, who continued at Ebberleigh, and Robert Davie, who settled at Crediton and became a wealthy clothier and was the ancestor of the Davie family of Creedy.^[18]

The estate was inherited by Henry Hole from his uncle (the Hole family resided at Combe, Roborough). Henry Hole was a builder and wood-engraver from Liverpool^[19] who in about 1816 rebuilt the mansion house, possibly incorporating some elements of the former building; the architect may have been Thomas Lee.^[20] Ebberly House was classified as a grade II* listed building in 1952.^[21] In 2010 the estate comprising six cottages, farmland and farm buildings, produced an annual income of £50,000.^[22]

References

1. ^Thorn, Caroline & Frank, (eds.) Domesday Book, (Morris, John, gen.ed.) Vol. 9, Devon, Parts 1 & 2, Phillimore Press, Chichester, 1985, Part 1, 36:7, Part 2 (Notes), 36:7
2. ^Pole, Sir William (d.1635), Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon, Sir John-William de la Pole (ed.), London, 1791, p.394
3. ^Vivian, p.795-7, pedigree of "Wollocombe of Combe"
4. ^Lysons, Daniel & Lysons, Samuel, Magna Britannia, Vol.6, Devonshire, London, 1822
5. ^Vivian, pp.796, 84
6. ^Risdon, Tristram (d.1640), Survey of Devon, 1811 edition, London, 1811, with 1810 Additions, p.341
7. ^Risdon, p.270
8. ^Risdon, p.270
9. ^Risdon, p.270; Pole, p.394; Vivian, p.795
10. ^Risdon, p.270
11. ^Pevsner, Nikolaus & Cherry, Bridget, The Buildings of England: Devon, London, 2004, pp.287-8
12. ^http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-91779-coombe-barton-and-adjoining-front-garden-#.WKHHHvK5Qqc; See images The arms show Argent, three bars gules (Wollocombe) impaling a lion rampant, apparently for Elford: Per pale argent and azure, a lion rampant gules (Vivian, p.329), see File:ElfordArms.png. This therefore represents the marriage of Roger Wollocombe (1632-1704) (4th son and eventual heir to his father John Wollocombe (1598-1663) of Coombe) to Gertrude Elford (d.1681), a daughter and co-heiress of John Elford of Sheepstor. His father married a Fortescue, whose own father married a Coffin, whose own father married a Basset, whose own father married a Pollard, none of which well-known and prominent Devon families bore arms containing a lion rampant.
13. ^Thorn, Caroline & Frank, (eds.) Domesday Book, (Morris, John, gen.ed.) Vol. 9, Devon, Parts 1 & 2, Phillimore Press, Chichester, 1985, Part 2 (notes), 3:19
14. ^Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, p.274, pedigree of "Davy alias Dewy"
15. ^Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, p.274
16. ^Vivian, p.274,Heralds' Visitations of 1620
17. ^Lysons, Magna Britannia, p.cxii
18. ^Lysons, Magna Britannia, p.cxii
19. ^Pevsner, Nikolaus & Cherry, Bridget, The Buildings of England: Devon, London, 2004, p.351
20. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-91782-ebberly-house-roborough-devon#.V6MHo9jr3IU|title=Ebberly House - Roborough - Devon - England {{!}} British Listed Buildings|last=Stuff|first=Good|website=www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk|access-date=2016-08-04}}
21. ^http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-91782-ebberly-house-roborough-devon
22. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.countrylife.co.uk/property/country-houses-for-sale-and-property-news/luxury-property-for-sale-in-cornwall-devon-and-somerset-23433|title=Luxury property for sale in Cornwall, Devon and Somerset - Country Life|date=2010-05-06|access-date=2016-08-04}}