Upcott, Cheriton Fitzpaine

Upcott is an historic manor in the parish of Cheriton Fitzpaine, Devon. The manor house, known as Upcott Barton is a mediaeval grade II* listed building notorious in the history of Devon as the place where in 1455 occurred the murder of the lawyer Nicholas Radford by a mob directed by the Earl of Devon during the Wars of the Roses. In the grounds is a reproduction of an Iron Age roundhouse built circa 2014.

Upcott is not listed as a manor in the Domesday Book of 1086, but is believed to have formed part of one of the two manors called Stochelie listed consecutively amongst the 79 Devonshire holdings of Robert, Count of Mortain (d.1091), uterine half-brother of William the Conqueror and the tenant-in-chief with the largest landholdings in England. Both were sub-infeudated to Alured Pincerna ("Alfred the Butler" or "Alfred the Cup-Bearer"), feudal baron of Chiselborough in Somerset, whose main landholdings were in Cornwall and Somerset, a follower of the Count, and also held in Devon from the same overlord the manors of Pocheelle (Poughill, adjacent to today's Cheriton Fitzpaine) and also Little Torrington. However, before the Norman Conquest of 1066 one of the two manors called Stocheliehad been held by a Saxon named Ordgar, "Edmer Ator's man", with land for 10 ploughs, the other by Hademar, with land for 7 ploughs. The correct identification to modern places of the numerous Domesday Book manors in Devon called Stochelie, Estocheleia, Estochelia,, etc., has presented modern scholars with difficulties. However, in the opinion of the authoritative Devon historian Hoskins (1966) Upcott was situated in that Stochelie held by Alured in 1086 and held before the Norman Conquest by the Saxon Ordgar, which manor "may be identified beyond doubt as South Stockleigh alias Sutton Satchvill in Cheriton Fitzpaine".

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