Umberleigh
Umberleigh is a former big manor within the historic thousand of (North) Tawton, however today a small town in North Devon in England. It made use of to be a clerical church, however complying with the structure of the church at Atherington it came to be a part of that church. It forms however a part of the civil church of Chittlehampton, which is mainly situated on the east side of the River Taw. The estate of Umberleigh, which had its very own entry in the Domesday Book of 1086, was entirely 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 occupied by the manor house of Umberleigh, today Georgian indication of which, a big as well as grand farmhouse, is called "Umberleigh House". Next to the manor house in about 1275 was founded Umberleigh Chapel, currently a ruin the solitary remaining wall surface of which forms the back wall of a ranch carries out shed.
