Milton Abbot

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Milton Abbot takes its name from the fact that it formed part of the original endowment of Tavistock Abbey c.974. At the Dissolution it passed to John, Lord Russell, as part of an enormous grant of the Tavistock lands, and still belongs to his lineal descendant, the Duke of Bedford. The estate has therefore changed hands only once in a thousand years. In 1810 the then duke built a "cottage" at Endsleigh, overlooking the wooded Tamar valley, from the designs of Sir Jeffry Wyattville. A statue of the last abbot of Tavistock decorates one of the ornamental gables of the cottage.

Not far from Endsleigh is the original nest of another great family-the Mount Edgecumbes. They were free-holders at Edgecumbe in the 13th century and the senior branch resided here until the 1840s. The present Edgecumbe House is mainly late medieval in date, but was re-fronted in 1719. Leigh Barton was a Domesday manor. The church (St. Constantine) is mostly a 15th century building in the attractive green Hurdwick stone.