It should be distinguished from Whiteway House in the parish of Chudleigh, Devon, 4 3/4 miles (7.6 km) to the north, in the 18th century a seat of the Parker family of Saltram.WITEWEI is a manor listed in the Domesday Book of 1068 as the 157th[1] of the 176 Devonshire possessions of Baldwin de Moels (died 1090), Sheriff of Devon, feudal baron of Okehampton, one of the Devon Domesday Book tenants-in-chief of King William the Conqueror.His tenant in 1068 was Ranulf and the manor was stated to include a salt-house, taxed at 12 d. per annum.The tenants of Whyteweye listed in the Book of Fees (c.1302) were Nicholas Burdon and Martin de la Torre.John Swete (1752-1821) Whiteway was later a seat of a branch of the prominent Devonshire gentry family of Yard, of which his mother was a member.
Whiteway Barton in 2009
Arms of Yarde:
Argent, a chevron gules between three water bougets sable
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