Webbery, Alverdiscott

[4] Nicholas was the king's artilleryman, whose role was "the captain or officer in charge of the stone and missile discharging engines used in sieges".

[2] Webbery then passed to the de Wibbery family which, as was usual during the reign of King Edward I (1272-1307),[citation needed] adopted its surname from its seat.

The Wibbery family had become extinct in the male line before the production of the Heraldic Visitations of Devon, and thus the arms are not recorded in that source.

[13][14] The Lippingcott family is believed to have originated either at a manor named "Lovacott" or "Luffincott", of which a range of possible locations exists, and of which their surname is a corruption.

[13][15] An alternative origin of the family is the manor and the present parish of "Luffincott",[16][17] not mentioned in the Domesday Book, which has its own church of St James.

The Lippingcott family still held Webbery in the early 17th century, when Risdon (d.1640) wrote his work the Survey of Devon.

[2] A member of the Lippingcott family was an early settler in the American Colonies, and his descendants are fairly frequent visitors to Webbery today.

[18] In the late 18th century Webbery was inherited from Hugh Lippingcott[20] by Charles Cutcliffe (1710-1791) of Weach Barton, Westleigh, Devon (1 mile north-west of Webbery), a member of the ancient Cutcliffe family of Damage in the parish of Ilfracombe (or Mortehoe) in North Devon, said to have descended from the French family named Roquetaillard (translated literally into English as "Rock-Cutter", hence "Cut-Cliffe") of Chateau Roquetaillard in Gironde.

[25] His daughter and heiress was Frances Cutcliffe (1780-1867), wife of Zachary Hammett Drake I (1777-1847) of Springfield, near Barnstaple, a Justice of the Peace and a Deputy Lieutenant for Devon, whose monument survives in Lee Chapel,[25] Ilfracombe, situated in the region of the Damage estates of the Cutcliffe family.

[1] The owners in 2017 of the manor house, a grade II listed building constructed in 1821–6,[35] situated a few hundred yards east of Webbery Barton, acquired it in the early 1990s.