Huish, Torridge

The church, dedicated to St James the Less, was heavily restored in 1873 by the 20th Baron Clinton to the designs of George Edmund Street. The work is described by Pevsner as "not of his best". The 15th-century tower is the only part that remains unaltered. The church contains a monument to John Cunningham Saunders, the noted eye surgeon who was born in the parish in 1773. ==Manor==

Gotshelm The manor is listed in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Hiwis, the 2nd of the 28 Devonshire holdings of Gotshelm, one of the Devon Domesday Book tenants-in-chief of King William the Conqueror. He held it in demesne. The tenant before the Norman Conquest of 1066 was an Anglo-Saxon named Alwy. It is today believed to have been centred on the estate of Lovistone, within the parish. Gotshelm was an Anglo-Norman magnate and was the brother of Walter de Claville (floruit 1086), also a Devon Domesday Book tenant-in-chief, who as listed in the Domesday Book had 32 holdings in Devon from the king. Before the end of the 13th century the Devonshire estates of both brothers formed part of the feudal barony of Gloucester. de Hiwis In Kirkby's Quest, a survey of 1284–1285, the manor of Huish was recorded as being held by Richard de Hiwis, In the early 20th century, following his inheritance from Mark Rolle (d.1907) (born Trefusis, a younger son of the 19th Baron Clinton) of the vast former Rolle estates, Baron Clinton utilised the grander Bicton House, the former Rolle seat, as his main residence. However this was vacated in the mid-20th century and the family moved back to Heanton Satchville, which today remains the seat of the Barons Clinton, now the Fane-Trefusis family, the largest landowners in Devon through the Clinton Devon Estates, the lands of which are principally situated near Bicton, in East Devon. ==Historic estates==

The parish of Huish includes the following historic estates: • Lovistone (anciently Lovelleston), which according to the Book of Fees (pre-1302), was held by Robert Pollard, directly from the feudal barony of Gloucester. whose 2nd son was John Cunningham Saunders (1773-1810), Junior, an English surgeon and oculist, best known for his pioneering work on the surgery of cataracts who in 1805 founded the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital, now known as Moorfields Eye Hospital. Mural monuments to both men survive in the bell-tower of Huish Church. The will of an earlier John Cunningham Saunders "Gentleman of Great Torrington, Devon", near Huish, was proved on 14 April 1744. ==Notes==