Umberleigh
Umberleigh is a former huge estate within the historic thousand of (North) Tawton, yet today a little village in North Devon in England. It made use of to be an ecclesiastical parish, but following the building of the church at Atherington it became a part of that church. It forms nevertheless a part of the civil church of Chittlehampton, which is primarily located on the east side of the River Taw. The manor of Umberleigh, which had its very own entrance in the Domesday Book of 1086, was completely positioned on the west side of the River Taw and also was centred on the Nunnery which was offered by William the Conqueror to the Holy Trinity Abbey in Caen, Normandy. The site was later occupied by the manor house of Umberleigh, the here and now Georgian indication of which, a huge and grand farmhouse, is called "Umberleigh House". Next to the manor house in about 1275 was founded Umberleigh Chapel, now a mess up the solitary staying wall of which forms the back wall of a farm applies shed.