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Branscombe is a village in the East Devon district of the English County of Devon. The parish covers 3,440 acres (1,390 ha). Its permanent population in 2009 was estimated at 513 by the Family Health Services Authority, reducing to 507 at the 2011 Census. It is located within the East Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, overlooking Lyme Bay.
Branscombe Church. St Winifred's Church is a Church of England church in Branscombe in Devon, England.The church is dedicated to Saint Winifred, a Welsh saint. It is among the oldest and most architecturally significant parish churches of Devon.
Edge, (originally, Egge [1]), is an ancient and historic house in the parish of Branscombe, Devon, England and is today known as Edge Barton Manor.The surviving house is grade II* listed [2] and sits on the steep, south-facing side of a wooded valley, or combe.
Berry Camp or Berry Cliff, is an Iron Age Hill fort on a partially eroded cliff top close to Branscombe in Devon. [1] The cliff is situated some 140 metres (460 ft) above sea level. [2] Berry Camp is a rectangular promontory hillfort located on a plateau, close to the cliff edge at Langham Field on Littlecombe Hill at Berry Cliff, Branscombe ...
Branscombe Manor Mill Old Bakery, Branscombe Manor Mill water wheel. The Old Bakery, Manor Mill & Forge is a collection of buildings in Branscombe, Seaton, Devon, England. The property has been in the ownership of the National Trust since 1965. The property consists of three buildings: a bakery, a watermill and a forge.
In fact, the Wadham family had held Wadham, Knowstone from at least as far back as the reign of King Edward I (1272-1307), [18] and in the reign of King Edward III (1327-1377) acquired the estate of Edge, Branscombe, Devon, which they made their principal seat [19] until, in about 1400, John Wadham 'the judge', built a fortified manor house at ...
William Wadham (died 1452), detail from his monumental brass in St Mary's Church, Ilminster, Somerset Arms of Wadham: Gules, a chevron between three roses argent [1]. Sir William Wadham (c.1386–1452) of Merryfield in the parish of Ilton, Somerset and Edge in the parish of Branscombe, Devon came from a West Country gentry family with a leaning towards the law, who originally took their name ...
Dorothy died on 16 May 1618, at the Wadham dower house, Edge, in the parish of Branscombe, Devon. Her body was taken to Merrifield and was buried on 16 June alongside that of her husband in the Wadham Chapel inside the Church of St Mary, Ilminster, Somerset. The monument to Nicholas and Dorothy Wadham is the principal monument in the church.