Longstone Manor on the water's edge
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Behind the trees (right) you can make out the upstanding and buried remains of a post-medieval, C17 estate house; all on a promontory at the Burrator Reservoir, part of the South West Lakes Trust, Dartmoor National Park. It has been suggested that the site of Longstone Manor house was owned from at least the C13 by Herbert de Cumba, Lord of the Manor of Sheepstor. By the C15 the Scudamore family owned the lands at Longstone, before they passed to the Elfords when John Alford married Johanna Scudmore. Much of the present building was re-built for Walter and Barbara Elford in 1633, according to a date stone removed from the ruins, possibly including in elements of the earlier house.
‘The Remains of Longstone Manor House, Wind Strew and Associated Features, Sheepstor - 1415430 | Historic England’. historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1415430.
Sandles, Tim. ‘Longstone Manor – Legendary Dartmoor’.
www.legendarydartmoor.co.uk/2016/03/31/longstone_manor/.
Longstone Manor on the water's edge
IMG_1055
Behind the trees (right) you can make out the upstanding and buried remains of a post-medieval, C17 estate house; all on a promontory at the Burrator Reservoir, part of the South West Lakes Trust, Dartmoor National Park. It has been suggested that the site of Longstone Manor house was owned from at least the C13 by Herbert de Cumba, Lord of the Manor of Sheepstor. By the C15 the Scudamore family owned the lands at Longstone, before they passed to the Elfords when John Alford married Johanna Scudmore. Much of the present building was re-built for Walter and Barbara Elford in 1633, according to a date stone removed from the ruins, possibly including in elements of the earlier house.
‘The Remains of Longstone Manor House, Wind Strew and Associated Features, Sheepstor - 1415430 | Historic England’. historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1415430.
Sandles, Tim. ‘Longstone Manor – Legendary Dartmoor’.
www.legendarydartmoor.co.uk/2016/03/31/longstone_manor/.