Goodleigh

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Goodleigh is a village, civil parish and former manor in North Devon, England. The village lies about 2+1/2 mi north-east of the historic centre of Barnstaple. Apart from one adjunct at the south, it is generally a linear settlement. The parish church of St Gregory is a grade II* listed building with surviving ancient parts but was largely rebuilt in 1881.

Manor

Robert Newton Incledon (1761–1846) of Yeotown, Goodleigh, purchased from the Rashleigh family the manor of Goodleigh,

Historic estates

Combe

Combe was the residence of a junior branch of the Acland family, which originated in the 12th century at the estate of Acland, 1/2 mi to the south in the parish of Landkey. Two 17th–century mural monuments survive in Goodleigh Church to members of the Acland family of Combe. The descent was as follows:

Yeotown

Yeotown is situated in the sequestered wooded valley of the small River Yeo, about 1 mi south-west of the village of Goodleigh. The mansion house formerly owned by the Beavis family was remodelled in about 1807 in the neo-gothic style by Robert Newton Incledon (1761–1846), husband of Elizabeth Beavis and eldest son of Benjamin Incledon (1730–1796) of Pilton House, Pilton, near Barnstaple, an antiquarian and genealogist and Recorder of the Borough of Barnstaple (1758–1796). It was demolished during his lifetime and today only one of the large gatehouse survives, since converted into a farmhouse known as Ivy Lodge.

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