Umberleigh
Umberleigh is a former large manor within the historic hundred of (North) Tawton, but today a tiny village in North Devon in England. It made use of to be a clerical church, but following the structure of the church at Atherington it ended up being a part of that parish. It creates nevertheless a part of the civil church of Chittlehampton, which is mostly located on the east side of the River Taw. The manor of Umberleigh, which had its very own access in the Domesday Book of 1086, was completely located on the west side of the River Taw and was centred on the Nunnery which was offered by William the Conqueror to the Holy Trinity Abbey in Caen, Normandy. The site was later on inhabited by the manor house of Umberleigh, the here and now Georgian indication of which, a big and also grand farmhouse, is called "Umberleigh House". Beside the manor house in concerning 1275 was founded Umberleigh Chapel, currently a wreck the single remaining wall of which forms the back wall of a farm implements shed.
