Pill, Bishop's Tawton

is an historic estate in the parish of Bishop's Tawton, near Barnstaple, in North Devon, England.

The surviving 18th-century mansion house known as Pill House is a grade II* listed building[1] situated close to the east bank of the River Taw about 1 mile south of the historic centre of Barnstaple and 1 mile north of Bishop's Tawton Church.

Successive holders were:[3] The descent of the Fulk family of Pill included: The Borough of Newport lies between Pill and Barnstaple, and received its royal charter perhaps in 1294, when King Edward I granted it a market on Mondays, and a fair for three days at Midsummer.

On 6 April 1400 Edmund Stafford (1344-1419), Bishop of Exeter, licensed a Chapel in Pill Barton for the Fouke Family.

[14] Travers of Pill bore arms: Argent, three bears passant in pale sable muzzled and chained or.

Pill House, Bishop's Tawton, Devon
Arms of "Fowke of Pyll": Ermine, on a bend cotised gules three escallops argent [ 5 ]
Arms of Perrot of Pill, according to Pole the same arms as "Fowke of Pyll": Ermine, on a bend cotised gules three escallops argent [ 10 ]
Arms of Chichester: Chequy or and gules, a chief vair
Anne Chichester, wife of Denys Rolle by Thomas Hudson (1701-79); Collection of Great Torrington Almshouse [ 21 ]