Also Uncle Tom Cobley, of the folk song, signed his will at Pascoe House,[citation needed] but is buried 4 miles west at Spreyton.

However, there is no evidence for this and it appears to refer to a square field that used to sit astride a straight run of hedgerows that was mistakenly identified as the course of the Roman road to Exeter in the 1980s (see 'Devon's Past an Aerial View' by Frances Griffith ISBN 0 86114-833-9).

Pole (d.1635) states that the earliest record of this family he was able to find was in a deed dated during the reign of King Edward II (1307-1327).

[13] According to Risdon (d.1640): "In this family one thing is remarkable that although they have continued many generations yet was it never known to have brought forth a younger brother until this our age, insomuch as the name is nowhere to be heard of but in only this place".

[15] In the parish church of St Andrew survive the following monuments: Media related to Colebrooke, Devon at Wikimedia Commons