Umberleigh
Umberleigh is a previous big manor within the historic numerous (North) Tawton, yet today a tiny town in North Devon in England. It used to be a clerical church, however complying with the structure of the church at Atherington it became a part of that church. It creates however a part of the civil parish of Chittlehampton, which is mostly situated on the east side of the River Taw. The manor of Umberleigh, which had its own access in the Domesday Book of 1086, was totally situated on the west side of the River Taw and was centred on the Nunnery which was given by William the Conqueror to the Holy Trinity Abbey in Caen, Normandy. The site was later on occupied by the manor house of Umberleigh, the here and now Georgian manifestation of which, a big and grand farmhouse, is referred to as "Umberleigh House". Alongside the manor house in regarding 1275 was founded Umberleigh Chapel, currently a mess up the single remaining wall of which forms the back wall surface of a farm applies shed.
