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MONUMENT NO. 445551

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Whiddon Deer Park, C16th

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(SX 72458931) Whiddon Park (Deer Park) (NAT)
Whiddon Park, 195 acres surrounded by a fence or wall,
averaging 10 feet in height. (1,2)

Whiddon (Whiddonpark House: SX 720892, the seat of the Whiddon
family from the time of Elizabeth I, appears to have been built
in the early part of the 17th century. The family died out in
1761 and Polwhele describes the place as ruinous and the park
virtually destroyed. (3,4)

Whiddon shown as a house on the map, though no park shown. (5)

Whiddon Park marked and named on 2" drawing though subsequently
mis-named on the published 1st Edn. 1". (6,7)

"The house (Whiddon Park) was built by Sir John Whiddon
(d.1575)....His deer park, entirely walled in granite
blocks..." (8)

Whiddon Deer Park (name confirmed) (a) presently of 117 1/2
acres (b) lies mostly on a steep south-west facing slope. It
has a roughly dressed granite perimeter wall rising from 1.4m.
to 3.3m. high and averaging 0.9m. thick. It is at its highest
where the Park adjoins Whiddon Wood inside the enclosure
centred at SX 725894. The 7m. wide and 1m. high bank following
the inside of the wall here is a further obstruction for deer
as it extends over the area where there is a good run up to the
wall. (See illustration with SX 78 NW 37).

The wall has been recently repaired though the coping visible
(see Ground Photograph) appears original, as does the tree
lined entrance to the enclosure at SX 72448950. This is aligned
on Whiddon Park House. The small ruinous building just inside
the entrance was still roofed in 1884 (c).
The general condition, construction and size of this Deer Park
makes it unlikely to be original (see Authority (2) and (4) but
is possibly the work of Napoleonic P.O.W.'s, as suggested by
local tradition, although its course may, in part, follow that
of the original Park. (9)

Whiddon Park, Deer Park wall. Grade II*. (10)

SOURCE TEXT

( 1) Ordnance Survey Map (Scale / Date)

OS 6" 1963

( 2) General reference

The Deer Parks & Paddocks of England 1892 46 (J Whitaker)

( 3) General reference

Magna Brit 6 Devonshire 1 1822 clxx ccxxiii ccclxviii (D & S Lysons)

( 4) General reference

History of Devon Vol 2 1797 73 (R Polwhele)

( 5) General reference

Map of County of Devon 1765 (B Donn)

( 6) General reference

OS 2" drawing 1802-3

( 7) General reference

OS 1" 1809

( 8) General reference

Castle Drogo Devon 6 1981 (M T Trinick)

( 9) Field Investigators Comments

F1 NJA 30-MAR-82

( 9a) General reference

Verbal

( 9b) General reference

National Trust OS 25"

( 9c) Ordnance Survey Map (Scale / Date)

OS 6" 1884

(10) List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest

DOE (HHR) Devon Dist. of Teignbridge FEB-1987 47A

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