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Brightley, Chittlehampton
Brightley was historically the principal secondary estate within the parish and former manor of Chittlehampton, Devon, situated about 2 1/4 miles south-west of the church and on a hillside above the River Taw. From the early 16th century to 1715 it was the seat of the Giffard family, whose mansion house occupied the moated site immediately to the west of the present large farmhouse known as Brightley Barton, a Grade II listed building which incorporates some elements of the earlier house.〔Listed buildings text, Brightley Barton ()〕 It is not to be confused with the 12th-century Brightley Priory near Okehampton, an error made by the Devon historian Tristram Risdon in his 1630 work "A Survey of Devon" in his account of the parish of Chittlehampton.〔Risdon, 1810 edition, p.320〕
==History==
Brightley was the seat of a junior line of the prominent gentry family of Giffard of Halsbury in the parish of Parkham. The present house, named Brightley Barton which has long served as a large farmhouse, retains only one room of the former much larger mansion of the Giffards, but the mediaeval retaining walls of the former moat survive, which is a great rarity in North Devon.〔Pevsner, N. & Cherry, B., The Buildings of England: Devon, London, 1991, p.260〕 A 17th-century stone sculpted heraldic escutcheon showing the Giffard arms is built into the stonework above the porch, said by Pevsner to date from the 15th century.〔Pevsner, p.260〕 During the Civil War it served as quarters for 300 Royalist troops, at which time it was owned by Col. John Giffard (1602-1665). These troops are said to have crossed the River Taw over the weir.〔Knight, p.35〕 The estate of Brightley was sold in the 1950s by Lord Clinton, heir of the Rolle family of Stevenstone, to its tenant Mr John Thomas, whose family had been tenants of Lord Clinton across the River Taw at Bartridge, in Atherington parish, and were invited by Lord Clinton during the agricultural depression of the 1930s to take the lease of Brightley also.
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