History
Walter Claville does not appear in the Battle Abbey Roll. Following the Battle of Hastings in 1066, he seems to have acquired holdings as an under-tenant in Suffolk under Robert Malet, and holdings in Devon. His home domain in Normandy was at Claville de Caux in the Seine-Inferieure near Rouen. He was lord of the following manors:
- Burlescombe, Canonsleigh, Appledore, Ayshford, Boehill Leigh (Churchstow). (All close to or within the present Burlescombe parish)
- Leonard Shobrooke (Morchard Bishop), Withycombe Raleigh, Wolfin, Bywood, Buckland Tout Saints, Craze Loman, Dowland, Drayford, Loosedon, Murley, Instow Coombe (Uplowman), Sydeham.
By 1284 the number of canons had declined to seven, and these were evicted in 1285 when the widow Maud de Lacy, Countess of Gloucester(d.1289), formerly the wife of Richard de Clare, 6th Earl of Gloucester(d.1262), refounded the establishment as a nunnery as the Abbey Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Saint John the Evangelist and Saint Etheldreda. In 1286 the abbess was granted license to hold weekly markets. It was not especially wealthy. Few of the historical records of this establishment have survived and consequently little is known about its history. It was suppressed in 1539 during the Dissolution of the Monasteries. The site became a residence of the Culme family until the 17th.c., which family also held the manor of Molland-Champson in Molland parish, North Devon.
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