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Bagtor is a historic estate in the parish of Ilsington in Devon, England. It was the birthplace of John Ford the playwright and poet. The Elizabethan mansion of the Ford family survives today at Bagto
Bagtor Down, Dartmoor, environs of Bagtor House
"Bag Tor", the natural rock formation after which the estate is named
William Pole (antiquary)
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Sir William Pole of Colcombe House in the parish of Colyton, and formerly of Shute House in the parish of Shute, both in Devon, was an English country gentleman and landowner, a colonial investor, Mem
Bagtor
…had held six of the manors later obtained by Nicholas the Bowman. The earliest holder of the manor of Bagtor recorded by the Devonshire historian Sir William Pole (d.1635) is the de Bagtor family. In the Book of Fees (c. 1302) it is recorded as held from the feudal barony of Plympton by "William de Baggetorre…
Portrait of Pole painted in the manner of Van Dyck.
Monument to Pole's first wife, Mary Periham, in the Pole Chapel, Colyton Church, Devon