Painsford, Ashprington
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Painsford is an historic estate in the parish of Ashprington in Devon.
Painsford, now a farmhouse
Painsford Mill
Newnham (Old)
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Newnham in the parish of Plympton St Mary in Devon is a historic estate long held by the Devonshire gentry family of Strode. The ancient mansion house is situated 1 mile north-east of St Mary's Church
Painsford, Ashprington
…Sir Samuel Somaster (born 1592) of Painsford, son and heir, who married Frances Strode (died 1628), a daughter of Sir William IV Strode (1562–1637) of Newnham in the parish of Plympton St Mary in Devon (whose mural monument survives in St Mary's Church, Plympton) a Member of Parliament for Devon in 1597 and…
Old Newnham in 2014, looking northward
Old Newnham, west wing, looking north-eastward
"Nuneham Mills", one of three 1797 watercolours by Rev. John Swete (d.1821) of the mill attached to the manor of Newnham. Devon Record Office 564M/F13/65
Effigy of Richard II Strode (d.1464) of Newnham, detail from his canopied monument in St Mary's Church, Plympton