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Whitehall Close, TIVERTON, EX16 9FH

The B3190 as it enters Morebath as the sign would indicate.

The B3190 in Morebath with a caravan in view.

The B3190 heads through Morebath and towards Bampton in this direction.

Looking down towards the village of Morebath from the surrounding hillsides.

Looking down towards the village of Morebath in Mid Devon from the nearby hillside.

Looking down towards the village of Morebath in Mid Devon.

Velthams Pool (or Velthams Poole), residence of Colin Rowland. The grandiose eagles on the gate came from Wells Reclamation, and not long after they were finally put up, some wag placed a rubber chicken in the beak of one of the eagles, which caused considerable merriment locally, as it took Colin a few days to notice. Before he converted Velthams Pool to live in, it was a barn with a red corrugated-iron roof, and an enclosed yard. It and the fields around it were sold to his grandfather out of the forty or so acres that belonged to Velthams (the big white house on the corner) in 1947, leaving Velthams with just one field and a garden, amounting to almost two acres. Velthams is sometimes named 'Vilthams' on older maps, which makes me think these were the "home fields of the vill"; vill is another word which may repay investigation, as it is cognate with, though not identical in meaning to, village. Many years ago, a family called Henson lived at Velthams, and they have a plot on the old part of the churchyard, on the left as you look at the Church. The story I heard as a boy was that one of the Mr Hensons kept a pack of hounds out in the barn at Velthams Pool, and that he went mad one day (whether through drink or otherwise was not stated), and let the hounds out into the yard and then got up onto the roof and shot them all. A shocking tale, and true, more likely than not!

View of north aisle; the parish accounts for Morebath for the period 1520-1574, kept by the parish priest, survive and have been published as The Voices of Morebath by Eamon Duffy. They give a unique insight into the happenings in the parish up to and after the Reformation; that is Morebath's claim to fame.

The church dates from the 13th century but much is from the 15th century. The church was restored by William Butterfield between 1874 and 1875.