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Berry Pomeroy is a village and civil parish in the South Hams district of Devon, England, 2 miles (3 km) east of the town of Totnes. [2] The parish is surrounded clockwise from the north by the parishes of Ipplepen , Marldon , Torbay (unitary authority), Stoke Gabriel , Ashprington , Totnes , and Littlehempston . [ 3 ]
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The de la Pomeroy family held the large feudal barony of Berry Pomeroy from shortly after the Norman Conquest of England, as the Domesday Book of 1086 records. Early documents refer to a "capital messuage " at Berry, signifying the caput of the manor, which manor in turn was the caput of the barony, which consisted in 1166 of almost 32 knight's ...
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The church was rebuilt by Richard de Pomeroy in the late 15th century at the site of a pre-existing church. [1] The architecture is in the perpendicular style. [2] The church comprises a nave and chancel in one, on the northern and southern range aisles and a porch with parvise and groined roof with bosses - as described by John Stabb: "bearing the arms of the Pomeroy family".
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Ruins of Berry Pomeroy Castle. In 1577 he was Colonel of a regiment of the Devon Trained Bands. [4] Seymour became an Admiralty official and privateer and was a Royalist in the civil war. He and his son were captured at Plymouth and Berry Pomeroy Castle was destroyed. He had to pay £1,200 to the sequestrators of estates.
Born at Berry Pomeroy Castle in Devon, of a family greatly influential in the Western counties, he was the eldest son of Sir Edward Seymour, 3rd Baronet, and his wife Anne Portman, and a descendant of Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset, in the senior line. (Because of the alleged adultery of the Duke's first wife, the Dukedom had been ...