Bagtor

Bagtor is a historic estate in the parish of Ilsington in Devon, England.The Elizabethan mansion of the Ford family survives today at Bagtor as the service wing of a later house appended in about 1700.[1] The manor of Bagetore is listed in the Domesday Book of 1086 as the seventh of the twelve Devonshire holdings of Nicholas the Bowman, one of the 52 Devon Domesday Book tenants-in-chief of King William the Conqueror.[3] In the Book of Fees (c. 1302) it is recorded as held from the feudal barony of Plympton by "William de Baggetorre",[4] who also held Aller in Abbot's Kerswell, also a former holding of Nicholas the Bowman.Bagtor was later part of the large Dartmoor estate of John Dunning, 1st Baron Ashburton (1731–1783), whose seat was at Spitchwick, about 6 miles to the south-west.
Bagtor Down, Dartmoor , environs of Bagtor House
"Bag Tor ", the natural rock formation after which the estate is named
Arms of Ford of Bagtor: Party per fesse or and sable, in chief a greyhound courant in base an owl within a bordure engrailed all counter-changed [ 7 ]
DartmoorIlsingtonJohn FordDomesday BookNicholas the BowmanDevon Domesday Book tenants-in-chiefWilliam the ConquerorNorman ConquestWilliam PoleBook of Feesfeudal barony of PlymptonAbbot's KerswellAshburtonChagfordJohn PrinceMoreton HampstedJohn Rolle (1522–1570)StevenstoneBudleighPopham familyHuntworthDartingtonLysonsNutwellHenry FordTivertonLord Lieutenant of IrelandYealmptonSpridlestonSheriff of DevonJohn Dunning, 1st Baron AshburtonSpitchwickPevsner, NikolausHoskins, W.G.Pole, Sir WilliamSir John-William de la PoleVivian, Lt.Col. J.L.Heralds' VisitationsRisdon, Tristram