Hawkridge, Chittlehampton

The former mansion house is today a farmhouse known as Hawkridge Barton, a grade II* listed building.

[1] The Devon historian Hoskins (1959) stated of Hawkridge: "Externally there is nothing remarkable except a decaying avenue of ancient walnuts, so often the first indication of a 16th or 17th century mansion".

[5] According to the Devon historian Sir William Pole (died 1635), the arms of this family were: Gules, a bend undée argent in sinister point a hawk on a perch or.

[13][14] The arms of Stapleton of Rempstone (Argent, two bends wavy sable)[15] are the same as the ancient arms of Stapledon of Annery, Monkleigh in North Devon, as visible on the monument of Walter de Stapledon Bishop of Exeter in Exeter Cathedral.

[16] Anthony Acland (1568–1614) of Hawkridge was Baldwin's eldest son and heir, aged only four at the death of his father.

Anthony's son, Baldwin Acland (1593–1659) married Elizabeth Tremayne at Lamerton in 1615, a year after his father's death.

[4] In the "Inner Room", next to the Great Hall at Hawkridge Barton survives a plaster overmantel showing the arms of Acland impaling Tremayne, representing this marriage.

[25] The will referred to: "All that farm with the messuages and tenements thereto belonging situate at Hawkridge in the parish of Chittlehampton in occupation of William Boulfield".

The eldest son of William Mounier Yeo was William Arundell Yeo (died 1862) who inherited from his mother various properties in Cornwall and from the Barbor family the grand Georgian mansion of Fremington House, built by Richard Acland (1679–1729), MP for Barnstaple 1708–13), and the manor of Fremington, near Barnstaple, North Devon.

[29] The coat of arms of the two branches is identical, (Chequy argent and sable, a fesse gules) but the crests differ.

William Mounier Yeo, as stated in his will, owned a reversionary interest in lands in Fremington and Barnstaple during the life of his aunt Mrs Agnes Roche.