Sherford (near Kingsbridge)
Historic estates
Within the parish are various historic estates including:
Kenedon
Kenedon, a manor listed in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Chenigedone, later a seat of the Hals family. The mansion house is today represented by a small 16th c. farmhouse known as Keynedon, about 1 mile (1.6 km) south of the village of Sherford.
Malston
Malston, a seat of the Reynell family of East Ogwell, which two manors they had inherited in the 14th century, on the marriage of Walter Reynell (fl.1363/4) (from Cambridgeshire) to Margaret Stighull, daughter and heiress of William Stighull of Malston and East Ogwell.
Stancombe Dawney
Stancombe Dawney, in the parish of Sherford. It came into the possession of the Pollexfen family in 1624. It was the birthplace of Henry Pollexfen (1632–1691), of Nutwell in the parish of Woodbury, Devon, Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas. In about 1730 it passed to the Drake family of Buckland Monachorum, and in 1758 was sold by Sir Francis Henry Drake, 5th Baronet (1723–1794) to John Furlong. In 1778 it became the property of the Cornish family who held it in 1911.