Farringdon is a village, civil parish and former manor in the district of East Devon in the county of Devon, England. The parish is surrounded clockwise from the north by the parishes of Clyst Honiton, Aylesbeare, a small part of Colaton Raleigh, Woodbury, Clyst St Mary and a small part of Sowton.
The village is twinned with Secqueville-en-Bessin, Normandy, France.
The parish church of St Petrock and St Barnabas is a Grade II* listed building. Rebuilt in 1870, it retains its original Norman font. One of its most famous incumbents was John Travers (died 1620), a Nottingham man who was brother to the famous puritan cleric Walter Travers and who was related by marriage to another, Richard Hooker.
Manor The manor of Farringdon was long held by the "de Farringdon" family, whose pedigree from the early 13th century to the late 16th century is given in the Heraldic Visitations of Devon.*Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, pp.339-40 Lancelot Farringdon (d.1598) "a proper and discret gentleman in outward show", in the words of Risdon (d.1640), was the last in the male line and committed suicide, and was "found hanged in his bedchamber by his garter to the bedstead".Risdon, Tristram (d.1640), Survey of Devon, 1811 edition, London, 1811, with 1810 Additions, p.62. See also Vivian, footnote 3, p.340 His estates passed to his two sisters, Abigail Farringdon, the elder, married to John Drake of Peter Tavy in Devon, and Mary Farringdon, the younger sister whose share of the inheritance included Farringdon,Vivian, footnote 3, p.340 married to William Cooper.Vivian, p.292 The arms of Farringdon were: Sable, three unicorns in pale argent armed and crined or.Vivian, p.339
Historic estates The parish of Farringdon contains various historic estates including: CrealyModern spelling; Polwhele, p.203 (anciently Crowlegh,Pole, p.159 Crowleigh,Polwhele, Richard, History of Devonshire, 3 Vols., Vol.2, London, 1793, Vol.2, p.203 Crealy,Polwhele, p.203 Crailey,Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, p.575, pedigree of "Mortimer alias Tanner" Crayley,Vivian, p.575 etc.), in about 1600 the seat of the "Mortimer alias Tanner" family.Pole, p.159; Pedigree see Vivian, p.575 Today it is the site of the "Crealy Adventure Park & Resort" themepark. DenbowPevsner, p.447 (anciently Penbow,Pole, p.159 Benbow,Polwhele, p.203 etc.), anciently a seat of the Martyn family.Pole, p.159 Upham, in the time of Pole (d.1635), the seat of Humfry WalrondPole, p.159 (born 1554), (4th son of Humphry II Walrond (died 1586) of Bradfield in the parish of Uffculme, DevonVivian, p.768, pedigree of Walrond of Bradfield) who purchased it from a member of the Duke family of Otterton. At some previous time it had been a possession of the Cary family.Pole, Sir William (d.1635), Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon, Sir John-William de la Pole (ed.), London, 1791 The surviving 17th century mansion, now a farmhouse, has on the first floor a plaster overmantel with strapwork decoration.Pevsner, Nikolaus & Cherry, Bridget, The Buildings of England: Devon, London, 2004, p.447
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