Percy Charles Wyndham (1757-1833), MP, 2nd son of Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont, who also owned the manor of Blackborough[3] where in 1838 George Wyndham, 4th Earl of Egremont (d.1845) built a palatial villa, known as Blackborough House.

[5] The estate of Wood was held by the Whiting family between the reigns of King Edward III (1327-1377) and King Henry VIII (1509-1547).

The last in the male line was John Whitinge (d.1529), a member of the Merchant Venturers, whose elaborately panelled chest tomb survives in Kentisbeare Church, in the chapel at the east end of the south aisle, which he built.

[6] John Whiting left four daughters and co-heiresses:[7] In 1810 Wood belonged to Samuel Southwood, Esq.

[9] In 1799, Betty Limpany was executed in Exeter for burning down the house of her master, William Leech of Kentisbeare.