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Acland, Landkey
The estate of Acland (''alias'' Accelana,〔Risdon, p.325〕 Akeland〔Pole, p.413〕 etc.) in the parish of Landkey, near Barnstaple in North Devon, was from 1155 the earliest known seat of the influential and wealthy family of Acland,〔Acland, Anne, p.2 & foreword by W H Hoskins〕 to which it gave the surname ''de Acland''.〔Hoskins, W.G., A New Survey of England: Devon, London, 1959 (first published 1954), p.422〕 It is situated about 3/4 mile north-east of the village of Landkey, from which it is now cut off by the busy A361 North Devon Link Road. The estate is likely originally to have been named after its first Saxon holder named ''Acca''.〔Acland, Ann, p.2, quoting Gover J.E.B. et al, The Place Names of Devon, 1931, p.342〕 The estate was held under the feudal tenure of socage〔Acland, Ann, p.2〕 from the manor of Bishop's Tawton (in which was situated the parish of Landkey), one of the possessions of the See of Exeter.〔Andrews, Rev. J.H.B., Chittlehampton, Transactions of the Devon Association, vol.94, 1962, p.250〕 The house contained its own domestic chapel, licensed by the Bishop of Exeter.〔Acland, 1981, p.3〕
In 1644 the family which originated here was created Acland Baronets. The Devon historian Risdon (died 1640) stated regarding the parish of Landkey: ''In this parish is Acland, pleasantly situated against the south in the side of a hill which hath given name to its ancient dwellers who have continued in that place from King Henry the second unto theis present time, of which lineage five of the first were called Baldwin''〔 The family's historian Anne Acland (Lady Acland, wife of Sir Richard Thomas Dyke Acland, 15th Baronet (1906–1990)) stated (1981): "However the name is spelt, there is no branch of the enormous family which does not stem from the tree which first took root at Acland Barton". By the end of the 12th century the Aclands of Acland held an estate of about 400 acres of land.〔 In the opinion of Hoskins (1981), based on its early and repeated use of the Flemish firstname of ''Baldwin'', the Acland family probably migrated to England from Flanders soon after the Norman Conquest〔Acland, Anne, p.2; & foreword by W H Hoskins, p.xv〕 of 1066. It was in the late 20th century probably the oldest surviving landed family in Devon, which by the 19th century possessed a huge estate in the West Country of almost 40,000 acres.〔Acland, Anne, foreword by W H Hoskins, p.xv, xvi〕 In the 17th century the former mansion house of the estate was abandoned as a family residence by the Aclands, who moved to their estate of Killerton, near Exeter, where they built a grand country house, but Acland was retained in the family's ownership and let to tenants. The house thereafter became known as Acland Barton. The house served for many generations as a farmhouse, let to tenants by the Acland family,〔 and in 1945 was sold to the tenant by Sir Richard Thomas Dyke Acland, 15th Baronet (1906–1990).〔Hoskins, p.422〕 In 1917 about 8,000 acres of the Acland family's estate at Holnicote on Exmoor had been given by Sir Charles Thomas Dyke Acland, 12th Baronet (1842–1919) to the National Trust.〔Acland, 1981, pp.148-9〕
==Description of house==
Acland Barton and Chapel were classed as a Grade I Listed Building in 1965.〔 The house was completely rebuilt in the 15th century, and included its own private domestic chapel, licensed by the Bishop of Exeter.〔 The date 1591 survives carved onto the wooden porch,〔Acland, 1981, p.3; Pevsner, p.125〕 and represents the modernisation and rebuilding of the house at that date by Hugh Acland (1543–1622),〔Acland, 1981, p.5〕 who lived at Acland his whole life.〔Acland, 1981, p.4〕 This involved the insertion into the great hall of a ceiling with room above, thus lowering the height of the house's principal room.〔Pevsner, p.125〕 The hall's wooden screen and screens passage survives.
The surviving structure is the main range and west wing of the Tudor house. The windows of the main range are later alterations.〔Pevsner, Nikolaus & Cherry, Bridget, The Buildings of England: Devon, London, 2004, pp.125-6, Acland Barton〕
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