Meavy

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Village and civil parish in Devon, England

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::summary Village and civil parish in Devon, England ::

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Meavy is a small village, civil parish and former manor in the English county of Devon. Meavy forms part of the district of West Devon. It lies a mile or so east of Yelverton. The River Meavy runs near the village. For administrative purposes the parish is grouped with the parishes of Sheepstor and Walkhampton to form Burrator Parish Council,{{cite web

|url=http://burrator.gov.uk/ |title=Burrator Parish Council |access-date=2010-07-05}} and for electoral purposes it is grouped with the same two parishes to form Burrator Ward.{{cite web |url=http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si1999/19992473.htm |title=Statutory Instrument 1999 No. 2473 |publisher=HMSO |access-date=2010-07-05}}

In 2010, Meavy was one of the filming locations for the Steven Spielberg film War Horse.

Buildings

;Parish church The parish church of St Peter is at least partly Norman with additions of the 13th and 15th centuries. There is a reredos of 1884 by J.D. Sedding and a foliated churchyard cross. The oak tree on the village green in front of the churchyard wall is known as the Meavy Oak and was described by John Claudius Loudon in his Arboretum of 1838; the tree may be over 900 years old. Next to the church is an unremarkable manor house of the Drake family.

;Royal Oak Inn The Royal Oak Inn dates to the late 15th century, and is owned by the civil parish of Burrator, with the profits being used by the parish council to fund projects within the parish. Some of the seating consists of pews formerly located in the nearby church.

Manor

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The manor of Meavy (alias Meavy Church, Mewy, etc.) in Roborough Hundred was held in 1086 at the time of Domesday Book by Robert le Bastard, or by Juhel de Totnes. Later it was held by the de Meavy family from the reign of Kings Henry III to Richard II. Their feudal overlord was the de Pomeray family, feudal barons of Berry Pomeroy. It was later held by the Milliton family, whose armorials were: Gules, a chevron argent between three millets hauriant or, where "millets" are mullet fish. Richard IV Strode (d.1552) of Newnham, about 6 miles south, married Agnes Milliton, daughter of John Milliton of Meavy. Meavy was later one of the residences of Sir William IV Strode (1562–1637), and later became the seat of the latter's 2nd son William Strode (1594-1645), MP. A junior branch of the Crymes family of Crapstone, Buckland Monachorum, was resident in the parish of Meavy. Risdon: "The manor of Buckland was bought by one Grimes, of London, who built a house upon the same, which descends to his posterity, and is now inherited by that name". Meavy was purchased by Sir Francis Drake, 3rd Baronet (1642–1718), of Buckland Abbey in the parish of Buckland Monachorum, who sometimes resided at the manor house west of St Peter's Church, in which survives the "Drake Aisle" or manorial chapel. The external stonework is inscribed with the date "1705" and the "Drake star" from his coat of arms. His mother was Susan Crimes, a daughter of William Crimes (or Grimes), of Buckland Crimes and a sister of Elizeus Crimes.

References

References

  1. Pevsner, N. (1952) ''South Devon''. Penguin Books
  2. Pole, Sir William (d.1635), Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon, Sir John-William de la Pole (ed.), London, 1791, p.493
  3. Pole, p.337
  4. [https://opendomesday.org/place/XX0000/meavy-goodameavy-and-hoo-meavy/ Meavy]. Open Domesday. Accessed 16 April 2025.
  5. [[William Pole (antiquary). Pole, Sir William]] (d.1635), Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon, Sir John-William de la Pole (ed.), London, 1791, p.337
  6. [[William Pole (antiquary). Pole, Sir William]] (d.1635), Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon, Sir John-William de la Pole (ed.), London, 1791, p.493
  7. As depicted on heraldic quarterings of [[William Strode (1562–1637). William IV Strode]] (1562–1637) on his monument in St Mary's Church, Plympton. Not apparently "Mullets" which in heraldic language are stars. Also shown sculpted on monument to Robert III Cary (d.1586) of Clovelly, Devon, who married Margaret Milliton, daughter of John Milliton and widow of John Giffard of Yeo in the parish of Alwington, North Devon. South wall of chancel, All Saints Church, Clovelly. Both images show two dorsal fins and two fins on the belly, characteristic of the mullet fish ''[[Mugil cephalus]]''(see image [[:File:Mugil cephalus.jpg]]
  8. [[John Lambrick Vivian. Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L.]], (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, p.718
  9. [[Tristram Risdon. Risdon, Tristram]] (d.1640), Survey of Devon, 1811 edition, London, 1811, with 1810 Additions, ("Meavy Church") p.195; [[William Pole (antiquary). Pole, Sir William]] (d.1635), Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon, Sir John-William de la Pole (ed.), London, 1791, ("Mewy") p.337
  10. [[John Lambrick Vivian. Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L.]], (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, p.719
  11. [[Nikolaus Pevsner. Pevsner, Nikolaus]] & Cherry, Bridget, The Buildings of England: Devon, London, 2004, pp.233-4
  12. Vivian, p.258
  13. [[Tristram Risdon. Risdon, Tristram]] (d.1640), Survey of Devon, 1811 edition, London, 1811, with 1810 Additions, p.211
  14. "A Brief History of St. Peter's, Meavy".
  15. [[John Lambrick Vivian. Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L.]], (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the [[Heraldic visitation. Heralds' Visitations]] of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, p.301, pedigree of Drake

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