St James Priory, Exeter

The Feudal Manor of St James Priory was located in the current district of Heavitree, a suburb of the city of Exeter, Devon.

A carucate was the amount of land cultivated by a team of eight oxen in one farming season, which was a nominal 120 acres.

The name appears in the Domesday Book, where it is recorded that the Viking of Whipton and the nobleman Roger Blunt were Lords of Heavitree in 1066 and 1086 respectively.

The priory was founded in 1146 by Baldwin de Redvers, the 1st Earl of Devon, a kinsman of the Dukes of Normandy.

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