Yealmpton is a village and civil parish in the English county of Devon. It is located in the South Hams on the A379 Plymouth to Kingsbridge road and is about 8 miles (13 km) from Plymouth. Its name derives from the River Yealm that flows through the village. At the 2001 census,it had a population of 1,923,falling to 1,677 at the 2011 census. There is an electoral ward of the same name. The population of this ward in 2011 was 2,049.
Edmund Pollexfen Bastard was a British Tory politician,son of Edmund Bastard and his wife Jane Pownoll. He married Anne Jane Rodney,granddaughter of Admiral Rodney.
Efford is an historic manor formerly in the parish of Eggbuckland,Devon,England. Today it has been absorbed by the city of Plymouth to become a large,mostly post-World War II,eastern suburb of the city. It stands on high ground approximately 300 feet above the Laira estuary of the River Plym and provides views over long distances:to the north across Dartmoor,to the east and south-east across the South Hams. It consists predominantly of local authority and housing association properties. Before this land was built upon it was known as 'The Wilds of Efford',and was largely unspoilt countryside and marsh land. That a deer park may have been attached to the manor is suggested by the survival of the street name "Deer Park Drive".
Sir Henry Pollexfen of Nutwell in the parish of Woodbury,Devon,was Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas.
John Pollexfen (1636–1715),of Walbrooke House in the parish of St Stephen Walbrook,City of London and of Wembury House in Devon,was a merchant,a courtier to Kings Charles II and William III,and a political economist who served four times as a Member of Parliament for Plympton Erle in Devon,in 1679,1681,1689 and 1690. He was opposed to the monopoly of the East India Company.
The Old English Cemetery is a cemetery in Livorno (Leghorn),central Italy,located on a plot of land near the Via Verdi,close to the Waldensian Church and to the formerly Anglican church of St. George. It is the oldest Protestant cemetery in Italy.
John Bastard of Sharpham,Ashprington,Devon,was an officer of the Royal Navy who saw service during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars,and the War of 1812,rising to the rank of post-captain. He also entered politics and became a Member of Parliament.
Edmund Bastard (1758–1816) of Sharpham,Ashprington,Devon,was a British Tory politician. He was the second son of Colonel William Bastard of Kitley House,Yealmpton,Devon by his wife Anne Worsley.
John Poulett,4th Earl Poulett,KT,styled Viscount Hinton between 1764 and 1788,was a British peer and militia officer.
Pollexfen is a British,South Devon surname associated and may refer to:
Jonathan Rashleigh (1642–1702) of Menabilly,near Fowey,Cornwall was Sheriff of Cornwall in 1686/87,and twice MP for Fowey 1675–1681 and 1689–1695. His portrait exists at Antony House,Torpoint,Cornwall,formerly the home of his second wife Sarah Carew.
Warleigh is an historic estate within the parish of Bickleigh in Devon,about 6 miles from Plymouth. Warleigh House,the manor house of the manor of Tamerton Foliot is situated one mile west of that village on the south-east bank of the River Tavy where it joins the River Tamar. It was remodelled in about 1830 in the Gothic style by John Foulston and has been listed Grade II* on the National Heritage List for England since 1960.
Sharpham is an historic estate in the parish of Ashprington,Devon. The Georgian mansion house,known as Sharpham House,overlooks the River Dart and is a Grade I listed building. The house was commenced in about 1770 by the Royal Navy captain Philemon Pownoll to the designs of the architect Sir Robert Taylor (1714–1788). In the opinion of Nikolaus Pevsner it contains "one of the most spectacular and daring later 18th century staircase designs anywhere in England". The park and gardens are Grade II* listed in the National Register of Historic Parks and Gardens. Part of the descent of Sharpham is shown on the Palmes family heraldic pedigree roll.
Lyneham in the parish of Yealmpton in Devon,is an historic estate. The surviving grand mansion house known as Lyneham House is a grade I listed building. It was built c.1699-1703 by Sir Courtenay Croker,MP for Plympton Morice in 1699. A drawing of Lyneham House dated 1716 by Edmund Prideaux (1693–1745) of Prideaux Place,Padstow,Cornwall,survives at Prideaux Place. It shows formal gardens in front with flanking pavilions and an orangery.
Mothecombe is an historic estate in the parish of Holbeton in South Devon,England. The mansion house of the estate is Mothecombe House,a grade I listed building in the Queen Anne style.
Richard Crocker of Devon,England,was a Member of Parliament for Tavistock in Devon in 1335. His descendants were the prominent Crocker family of Crocker's Hele in the parish of Meeth,Devon,later seated at Lyneham in the parish of Yealmpton,Devon until 1740.
William Crocker,living during the reign of King Edward III (1327-1377),of Crocker's Hele in the parish of Meeth,Devon,was a Member of Parliament. His descendants were the prominent Crocker family seated at Lyneham in the parish of Yealmpton,Devon until 1740. William Crocker is the earliest member of the family recorded in the Heraldic Visitations of Devon,although one of his ancestors is known to have been Richard Crocker (fl.1335) of Devon,England,a Member of Parliament for Tavistock in Devon in 1335.
Robert Bastard (fl.1086) was a Norman warrior who assisted in the 1066 Norman Conquest of England under King William the Conqueror. He was subsequently rewarded with landholdings in Devonshire and is one of the Devon Domesday Book tenants-in-chief of that monarch,with a holding of 10 manors or estates held in chief,8 of which he held in demesne,i.e. under his own management without tenants. He had at least one further holding as a mesne tenant,at Goosewell,Plymstock parish,Plympton hundred,held from William of Poilley,a Norman tenant-in-chief from Poilley in Normandy,most of whose 21 landholdings were later granted by King Henry I (1100–1135) to his trusted supporter Richard de Redvers,feudal baron of Plympton in Devon.
Thomas Coplestone (1688–1748) of Bowden,Yealmpton,Devon,was a British landowner and Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons for 29 years from 1719 to 1748.
Spridleston is an historic manor in the parish of Brixton in Devon,England,long a seat of a branch of the prominent and widespread Fortescue family. The ancient manor house does not survive,but it is believed to have occupied the site of the present Spriddlestone Barton,a small Georgian stuccoed house a few hundred yards from the larger Spriddlestone House,also a Georgian stuccoed house,both centred on the hamlet of Spriddlestone and near Higher Spriddlestone Farm.
