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 1598 - 1655 (57 years)
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| Name |
Wymond LEIGH |
| Born |
1598 |
| Gender |
Male |
| _UID |
E05B9AD5697D4946B6FEB07AC1B5F8CC3730 |
| Died |
May 1655 |
Week St. Mary, Devon, England  |
| Person ID |
I14929 |
YoungFamily |
| Last Modified |
10 May 2017 |
| Family |
Jane NOBELL, c. 27 Jun 1601, Boyton, Cornwall, England |
| Married |
23 Nov 1622 |
Week St. Mary, Devon, England [2] |
| _UID |
EBE5668146020347A4CCDF865E0894263EA1 |
| Children |
| | 1. Grace LEIGH, c. 18 Mar 1627/1628, Week St. Mary, Devon, England , bur. 1695, Week St. Mary, Devon, England (Age ~ 66 years) |
| | 2. Honor LEIGH, c. 20 Feb 1625/1626, Boyton, Cornwall, England |
| | 3. Eliachim LEIGH, c. Mar 1628/1629, Week St. Mary, Devon, England |
| | 4. Elizabeth LEIGH, c. Mar 1628/1629, Week St. Mary, Devon, England |
| | 5. John LEIGH |
| | 6. Elizabeth LEIGH, c. 21 Oct 1634, Week St. Mary, Devon, England |
| | 7. Andrew LEIGH, c. 21 Sep 1643, Week St. Mary, Devon, England |
| | 8. Mary LEIGH, bur. 24 May 1653, Week St. Mary, Devon, England |
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| Last Modified |
15 May 2022 |
| Family ID |
F4494 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- son and heir See Visitions of Cornwall 1620, Vivian, p 284.
Will 1 Mar 1654/5, proved 30 May 1655 P.C.C. (Aylett 122)
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Key features
An exceptional Grade II* listed manor house
Full description
Situation
Leigh Manor can be found amongst the picturesque and undulating north Cornish countryside and are within a half a mile of each other. The nearest village of Week St Mary is just over a mile away and has its own post office /general store, church and popular pub, The Green Inn. The ancient market town of Holsworthy renowned for its weekly livestock and pannier markets, offers a wide range of shops, banks, professional services and agricultural suppliers. There is also a Waitrose supermarket, swimming pool and golf course nearby.
The north Cornish coastline, with its sandy surfing beaches and dramatic scenery is within a fifteen minute drive and the popular sea-side town of Bude offers much to see and do. To the south, the medieval castle town of Launceston is just off the main A30 trunk road and from here the regional city of Exeter is a 45 minute drive. The city has a diverse range of shops, restaurants, theatres and has a mainline railway station, bus terminal and airport together with a link to the M5 motorway and London.
Description
Leigh Manor Farm comprises an impressive Grade II* listed manor house, barn and shippon conversion providing two cottages, a range of mainly modern farm buildings and some 34 acres of surrounding pasture land with pockets of woodland and two lakes.
Leigh Manor House
Dating back to the late 16th century, Leigh Manor house has rendered colour washed cob walls under a slate roof and is brimming with character/period features such as slate flagstone floors, exposed beams, cruck ceilings and granite mullion windows. It also benefits from oil fired central heating and has recently had a newly installed kitchen. Occupying a private and peaceful position a part tree lined entrance drive divides in two to give independent accesses to the yards and farm buildings as well as the manor house and cottages. The accommodation comprises
Open Porch with slate bench seats to each side and door to
Front Hall and further doors to
Dining Room: 14' 4'' x 13' 2'' (4.38m x 4.02m) Large window overlooking the front garden, open fireplace with exposed stone surround and timber lintel.
Sitting Room: 21' 11'' x 18' 0'' (6.69m x 5.49m) Large inglenook fireplace with granite surrounds, cloam oven and woodburning stove. Granite mullion window, semi circular slate and stone stairs again with granite mullion window rising to first floor. Door to rear hallway and step up to
Kitchen: 16' 10'' x 12' 11'' (5.15m x 3.96m) Recently re-fitted with a range of cream kitchen units with corian granite effect work tops over, integral fridge, dishwasher, electric cooker and hob. Oil fired range cooker and double Belfast sink.
Rear Hall: Slate floor and door to
Utility Room: 8' 7'' x 8' 4'' (2.62m x 2.55m) Cupboard with sink unit, space and plumbing for washing machine, roof light and coat hanging area.
Garden Room: 10' 9'' x 8' 5'' (3.30m x 2.58m) Door to outside and leading back to front hall.
Office: 7' 10'' x 7' 10'' (2.40m x 2.40m)
Shower Room: Shower cubicle, original WC, velux roof window and corner hand basin.
From the front hallway, stairs with under stairs cupboard rise to the First Floor Landing with doors to a Walk-in Airing Cupboard and
Bedroom 1: 16' 10'' x 13' 10'' (5.14m x 4.24m) Cruck ceiling and small fireplace (not used) with granite surrounds.
Bedroom 2: 12' 10'' x 11' 4'' (3.92m max x 3.48m) Wash hand basin.
Retiring Stairs to the ground floor and sitting room.
Bedroom 3: 8' 1'' x 7' 2'' (2.48m x 2.20m) Granite mullion window.
Bathroom: Freestanding roll top bath, wash hand basin and part tiled walls.
Linen Cupboard
Bedroom 4: 14' 4'' x 13' 3'' (4.38m x 4.05m) Open fireplace (not working) with large granite lintel.
Gardens & Grounds
The gardens are a lovely mixture of informal flower beds, terraces and lawned areas with a wide variety of shrubs and trees. The farmhouse is approached through a pretty walled garden with lawns and flower beds and a path leading to the entrance porch. The original stone built CIDER BARN can also be found here and still has its original wooden press and granite mill stone.
There are larger expanses of lawn, again with a mixture of mature shrubs and trees to the rear and a lean-to cob and stone built GARDEN STORE can be found a short distance from the garden room and rear entrance door.
Just off the entrance drive and opposite the farmhouse, a gravel parking area leads to a foot bridge and pedestrian gate giving access through the fields to the coarse fishing lakes. The drive continues to a tarmac parking and turning area at the front of the two cottages where there is a small range of outbuildings;
‘L’ shaped stone, brick and cob built STABLE BLOCK
Concrete block built STORE ROOM: 21' 6'' x 19' 6'' (6.56m x 5.95m) and adjoining
GAMES ROOM: 23' 3'' x 11' 1'' (7.11m x 3.40m)
From the parking area a further lane leads past an apple and pear orchard and vegetable garden and onto the farm buildings.
The Cottages
Once part of the farm, these traditional stone and slate barns were converted in the late 1980s to two independent units with full residential use. They offer four bedroom and one bedroom well appointed characterful accommodation respectively, both have double glazing with Barnsleigh benefiting from oil fired central heating. They also have their own garden and play area as well as ample parking and use of the games room.
Barnsleigh
Glazed front entrance door leading to
Kitchen/Dining Room: 18' 11'' x 11' 10'' (5.79m x 3.61m) Fitted with a range of kitchen units with an integral eye level oven, worktops over with electric hob, sink and drainer with tiled splash backs. Integral dishwasher and space and plumbing for washing machine. Slate floors and stairs rising to first floor and open door through to
Sitting Room: 19' 0'' x 12' 0'' (5.80m x 3.66m) Slate floor and full height window. Freestanding woodburner on slate hearth.
FIRST FLOOR LANDING with two cupboards and doors to
Shower Room: Shower cubicle, WC and wash hand basin.
Bedroom 1: 11' 10'' x 7' 9'' (3.61m x 2.37m) Built in cupboard.
Bedroom 2: 12' 6'' x 6' 9'' (3.83m x 2.06m) Built in cupboard.
Bathroom: Suite comprising panelled bath, WC and wash hand basin.
Further LANDING with boiler and stairs rising to
Bedroom 3: 13' 6'' x 9' 6'' (4.13m x 2.90m) Double aspect and velux window, built in cupboard.
Bedroom 4: 13' 1'' x 8' 7'' (4.00m x 2.62m) Velux window, built in cupboard.
Stable Cottage
Glazed front entrance door to
Kitchen/Living Area: 18' 7'' x 15' 2'' (5.67m x 4.63m) Fitted with a range of kitchen units with work tops over, sink and drainer, integral cooker and plumbing for washing machine. Fire surround with space and point for electric fire. From here the stairs rise to the FIRST FLOOR and
Bedroom: 16' 0'' x 9' 9'' (4.88m x 2.99m) Built in cupboard and door to
Bathroom: Corner bath, shower cubicle, WC and wash hand basin.
The Farm Buildings
Conveniently located a short distance from the farmhouse and cottages, the farm buildings benefit from ample concreted yards and two separate access lanes.
The buildings comprise;
SHEEP SHED: Timber frame, weatherboard elevations under a profile sheet roof.
LEAN-TO GARAGE
WORKSHOP: Two bay steel portal frame under a corrugated asbestos sheet roof. Concrete floor, car inspection ramps and power connected.
ENDFORD ENGINEERING CATTLE SHED: Four bay steel portal frame with weatherboard elevations and a corrugated asbestos sheet roof. Central feed passage and part concrete floor.
SILAGE CLAMP: Earth bank with concrete floor
FORMER SHIPPON: Cob, stone and brick under a slate roof now used as a store.
The Land
Extends to 34.35 acres (13.90 ha) which surround and protect the farmstead. It is an interesting mixture of level and gently sloping permanent pasture with some steeper inclines and ancient wooded boundaries. There are also two coarse fishing lakes, stocked with a variety of fish such as rudd, tench and roach, and a bark chip ménage all of which are easily accessed from the farm’s entrance lane, buildings or yards.
The land is well fenced with natural hedge banks separating each enclosure and has both a mains and natural water supply.
Other Information
Single Farm Payment Entitlement: Single Farm Payment entitlements have been established over the land. Entitlements equal to the area of eligible land being sold will be transferred to the purchaser. The vendor will undertake to lodge any such documents with the Rural Payments Agency (RPA) to allow the transfer of entitlements subject to RPA guidelines. Further details regarding these entitlements are available at the Agents office.
Entry Level Stewardship Scheme (ELS): Leigh Manor Farm is in an Entry Level Stewardship Scheme which expires on 30th June 2017.
Tenure: The farm is freehold with vacant possession upon completion.
Valuation: The purchaser will be required to take over all silage, hay, straw, fodder, growing and standing crops at valuation to be prepared by Kivells and there will be no counter claim for dilapidations. Such valuations to be conducted in accordance with the central association of agricultural valuers.
Farm Sale: The vendor reserves the right to hold a farm sale on the farm before completion.
Farm Plans: The plan is based on ordnance survey extracts, and the areas are not guaranteed and purchasers must satisfy themselves as to their accuracy.
Easements, Wayleaves, Rights of Way: The Properties are offered for sale, subject to and with the benefit of all matters contained in or referred to in the Property and Charges Register of the registered title together with all public or private rights of way, wayleaves, easements and other rights of way, which cross the property.
Boundaries: Any purchaser shall be deemed to have full knowledge of all boundaries and neither vendor nor the vendor’s agents will be responsible for defining the boundaries or the ownership thereof. Should any dispute arise as the boundaries or any points on the particulars or plans or the interpretation of them, the question shall be referred to the vendors agent whose decision acting as experts shall be final.
Listing: Leigh Manor Farmhouse is Grade II*
Floor Plans: These are not to scale and for identification purposes only.
Services
LEIGH MANOR FARMHOUSE - Mains water and electricity, private drainage, oil fired central heating plus some night storage radiators.
BARNSLEIGH AND STABLE COTTAGES - Mains water and electricity plus private drainage and oil fired central heating.
Energy Performance Ratings:
LEIGH MANOR FARMHOUSE - Energy efficiency rating not required (due to listing)
STABLE COTTAGE - Energy efficiency rating - F/30
BARNSLEIGH - Energy efficiency rating D/63
Local Authorities: Cornwall Council, Truro. Telephone 0300 1234 100
Viewings: Please call us to make an appointment. We are open from 9am to 5pm Monday to Friday and 9am to 1pm Saturdays. FULL DETAILS OF THIS AND EVERY PROPERTY ARE AVAILABLE ON OUR WEBSITE www.kivells.com.
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BOYTON, a parish, in the union of Launceston, partly in the hundred of Black Torrington, N. division of the county of Devon, but chiefly in that of Stratton, E. division of Cornwall, 5 miles (N. by W.) from Launceston; containing, with the hamlet of Northcott, in Devon, 600 inhabitants. It comprises between 4000 and 5000 acres: the soil is clay, and in general very shallow, the surface rather hilly; there is a considerable quantity of coppice. The Bude and Launceston, or Tamar, canal intersects the parish. A fair is held on August 5th. The living is a perpetual curacy, net income, £123; patron, the Rev. G. Prideaux; impropriator, H. Thompson, Esq. Between this place and North Tamerton is an ancient thatched building, called Hornacott Chapel, now occupied by a labourer.
[Source: "Boxworth - Brackley." A Topographical Dictionary of England. Ed. Samuel Lewis. London: S Lewis, 1848. 323-326. British History Online. Web. 7 May 2017. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/topographical-dict/england/pp323-326.]
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Boyton, Boietone, or Boyyeton. The parish of Boyton (Cornish: Trevoya) lies in the Hundred of Stratton and the Deanery of Trigg-Major; it is about five miles north of Launceston. The parishes of Week St Mary and North Tamerton join it on the Cornish side, otherwise it abuts, and is nearly surrounded by, the former Devon parishes of North Petherwin, Werrington, St Giles-in-the-Heath, and the Devon parish of Luffincot and a Devon village called Northcott Hamlet which crosses the River Tamar. The road to Boyton from Launceston crosses through more than two miles of Devon.
The parish is named after Boia's Farm. It is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Boitone. Boyton sits almost on the border between Devon and Cornwall, the surrounding country gives pleasant views over wooded hills and valleys with Dartmoor prominent in the distance. The Bude canal passes through this parish on the east side, and there was a wharf at Boyton Bridge.
"BOYTON, a village and parish, 5 miles N.W. of Launceston, has 600 souls, and about 4200 acres of land, all in Cornwall, except NORTHCOTT hamlet, which has 100 inhabitants, and 740 acres of land, in the valley of the river Tamar, occupied by the following farmers :- Digory Downing, John Downing, John Martin, Thos. Stapleton, and Wm. Walters. Northcott supports its highways with Werrington. The Rev. Edw. Rudall, M.A., is the vicar." [From White's Devonshire Directory (1850)]
Most parish and church description(s) on these pages are from Lake's Parochial History of the County of Cornwall by J Polsue (Truro, 1867 - 1873)
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- [S66] Will, Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Lambeth Palace, London, England, (England, Kew: The National Archives (formerly the Public Record Office)), Aylett 122, 30 May 1655.
In the name of God Amen, the fifth day of March, in the year of our Lord God one thousand six hundred fifty four, I, WEYMOND LEIGH, of Leigh in the County of Cornwall, Gent, being sick and weak in body but of good and perfect mind and memory praise be given unto almighty God for the same do make and ordain this my last Will and estament in manner and form following,
First I commend my Soul into the hands of Almighty God my creator assuredly believing that I shall receive a full pardon and free remission of all my sins in and through the merits of Jesus Christ my redeemer and my body to be buried in such decent manner as to my Executrix hereafter named shal be thought fit.
Item, my will and meaning is that JANE my wife shall have the use of all my household stuff and goods of what kind or nature soever during her life, and after her decease that the same shall be and remain unto JOHN my son, provided that he pay within twelve months after my wife's death the sum of five and twenty pounds to wit unto GRACE COLWILL my daughter and her child five pounds a piece and unto my daughter HONNOR ROWSEE three children five pounds a piece to each of them and in case my said son JOHN shall make default of payment of the said five and twenty pounds in manner as aforesaid that then the said goods shall be equally divided between my said two daughters.
Item, I give unto JANE LAMERTON my servant maid ten shillings.
Item, I give unto SYMON FRENCH my servant five shillings.
Item, I give unto WILLIAM LEE my servant twelve pence
Item, all the rest of my goods and chattels not formerly hereby given and bequeathed I do give and bequeath unto JANE my wife whom I do make and ordain my whole and sole Executrix to see my debts and legacies paid and my funeral expense discharged.
In witness whereof the said Weighmond Leigh have hereunto put my hand and seal on the day and year first abovewritten.
Weymond Leigh
Signed, sealed, and published in the
presence of
the sign of Thomasin Werry,
Isaake Rowse
Robert Pearse
This Will was proved at London the thirtieth day of May in the year of our Lord God one thousand six hundred fifty and five before the Judges for Probate of wills and granting ... lawfully authorized by the oath of Jane Leigh the Relict and Exectrix named in the said Will to whom administration of all and singular the goods, chattels and debts of the said deceased was committed she being first sworn by virtue of a commission, truly to administer the same.
- [S118] Parish Register, Church of England, (Not published), Week St. Mary, Cornwall, England, image 16, 23 Nov 1622.
Weamond Leigh s/o William/Elizabeth Aleegh and Jane Nobell d/o William Nobell late of Mirtycott in Boyton
Images of original register found on familysearch.org.
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