Dunchideock
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Dunchideock is a small civil parish on the north eastern slopes of the Haldon Hills in Teignbridge, Devon, England. It covers an area of 392 hectares and lies about 6 km (3.7 mi) south-west of Exeter and 11 km (6.8 mi) north-east of Bovey Tracey. The parish, with a population of 262 in 2001, lacks a compact village, but consists of scattered dwellings. It is surrounded clockwise from the north by the parishes of Holcombe Burnell, Ide, Shillingford St. George, Kenn, and Doddiscombsleigh.
A view over part of Dunchideock. The church is on the right with Dunchideock farm in front. Haldon Belvedere is on the skyline to the left.
Haldon House
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Haldon House on the eastern side of the Haldon Hills in the parishes of Dunchideock and Kenn, near Exeter in Devon, England, was a large Georgian country house largely demolished in the 1920s. The surviving north wing of the house, comprising the entrance front of the stable block, consists of two cuboid lodges linked by a screen pierced by a Triumphal Arch, with later additions, and serves today as the "Lord Haldon Hotel". The house was originally flanked by two such paired pavilions, as is evident from 19th century engravings.
North Pavilions, former stables block and a remnant of the house, now the Lord Haldon Hotel. The main house was set back to the left (south).
Haldon House, east front, painting by Francis Towne, commissioned in 1780 by Sir Robert Palk, 1st Baronet
Photograph circa 1900