Whiddon is an historic estate in the parish of Chagford in Devon, England. The manor house, now known as Whiddon Park House, survives as a remnant of the larger 16th-century mansion house of the Whiddon family.Cherry & Pevsner, p. 251. The house displays the date 1649 inscribed above the inner doorway. The manor house is now the property of the National Trust and is let for a nominal rent, but on a full repairing and insuring lease expiring on 17 January 2079.
The deer park, which is bounded by a wall built of massive granite blocks at the entrance to the Teign Gorge, was built by Sir John Whiddon (died 1576), a Justice of the King's Bench. His monument survives in St Michael's Church, Chagford.Cherry & Pevsner, p. 250.
References
Sources Cherry, Bridget & Pevsner, Nikolaus, The Buildings of England: Devon. Yale University Press, 2004. .
Further reading Whiddon, Hayes L. Jr., The Whiddon Journey: From Medieval England to the New World, 2016, USA