Fardel Manor

Fardel is a historic manor in the parish of Cornwood, in the South Hams district of Devon.

The surviving Grade I listed[4] medieval manor house is situated about half-way between Cornwood and Ivybridge, just outside the Dartmoor National Park on its south-western border.

[18] Carew Raleigh (c.1550-c.1625) sold the manor of Fardel to Walter Hele,[7] father of Elize Hele (1560–1635) of Parke[19] in the parish of Bovey Tracey, Devon, a lawyer and philanthropist (whose monument with recumbent effigy survives in Bovey Tracey Church), in whose family it remained until 1740.

[21] In the mid-nineteenth century a large stone, which had been used as part of a footbridge over a stream at Fardel, was recognised as bearing an Ogham inscription.

The inscription, in Goidelic (Primitive Irish), reads "SVAQQUCI MAQI QICI", meaning "[The stone] of Safaqqucus, son of Qicus".