Umberleigh is a former huge manor within the historic thousand of (North) Tawton, yet today a small village in North Devon in England. It used to be an ecclesiastical church, but complying with the building of the church at Atherington it ended up being a part of that parish. It creates however a part of the civil parish of Chittlehampton, which is mainly situated on the east side of the River Taw. The manor of Umberleigh, which had its own entrance 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 given by William the Conqueror to the Holy Trinity Abbey in Caen, Normandy. The site was later on inhabited by the manor house of Umberleigh, today Georgian indication of which, a huge and grand farmhouse, is referred to as "Umberleigh House". Beside the manor house in about 1275 was founded Umberleigh Chapel, now a mess up the solitary staying wall of which develops the back wall of a farm executes shed.