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The orchard hosts the annual Lustleigh May Day, and there is a large granite rock with carved throne used for crowning of the May Queen. Further outside the village is 'The Bishop's Stone', which is a carved boundary stone on the bottom of Caseley Hill and the top of the station approach road, carved to commemorate the visit of a Bishop of ...
The Lustleigh May Day is an annual celebration in the village of Lustleigh, Devon. ... the event moved to the Town Orchard in the village centre, where a new rock was ...
William is believed to have added the south chapel to the Church of St John the Baptist, near to the manor house in Lustleigh. There is an effigy of him within the church. [7] At his death, William's will stated that he should be buried with his ancestors at the church in Lustleigh, but his executors interred his body at Holbeton [a] instead ...
The Lustleigh Cleave is a steep-sided valley, approximately 2 miles (3.2 km) in length, with the River Bovey flowing at the bottom approximately South-Easterly. [6]Nothing can spoil the Cleave, where the granite, piled up like giants' castles, crowns the gorge, and is spread all the way to the stream below.
Manor of Lustleigh, Devon purchased 1403 by Sir John Wadham. [10] The medieval hall and solar still exist: "Uphill and Great Hall, Mapstone Hill: A major medieval house preserving two fine roofs, the property of the Wadham family of Ilminster in the C15 ..The date may be c.1400." [11] Eton; Tidcock; Oldbury; Cullioford
Sutreworde was a village and manor in historical record, also noted as Suðeswyrðe, located within the Teignbridge Hundred.The modern identity of this village has been the subject of academic debate, but is thought to have been within the parish of Lustleigh, but not at the location of the current village.
The church graveyard contains the remains of former Lustleigh residents. The graveyard is now full, and with the exception of those with family plots, new burials take place at the modern cemetery on Mill Lane. A memorial lamp, donated by James Nutcombe Gould (1849–1899) and his wife Edith (1859–1900), is now a Grade II listed object. [6]
It is believed [23] that the second son of Roger de Moels (c.1233/7-1294), feudal baron of North Cadbury (and thus a brother of the 1st Baron) was a certain Sir [24] Roger de Moels (d.1323 [23]) of Lustleigh in Devon, called a "King's Yeoman" in 1301, who married Alice le Prouz (1286–1335 [23]), daughter and heiress of Sir William le Prouz ...