page_title: Tetcott
section_title: Arscott of Tetcott
hierarchical_section_title: Tetcott / Arscott of Tetcott
caption_attribution_description: Arms of Arscott of Devon: Per chevron azure and ermine in chief two buck's heads cabossed or (Vivian, Heraldic Visitations of Devon, Arscott of Dunsland, p.16)
context_page_description: Tetcott is a civil parish, small settlement and former manor in Devon, England. The parish lies about five miles south of the town of Holsworthy and is bordered on the north by the parish of Clawton, on the east by a small part of Ashwater, and on the south by Luffincott. It forms part of the local government district of Torridge, and its western boundary is the River Tamar which forms the Cornish border. In 2001 its population was 110, half that of a century earlier.
  The settlement of Tetcott itself consists almost solely of the manor house and parish church of Holy Cross, but there are other hamlets in the parish, the largest of which is Lana about half a mile to the south-east.
context_section_description: W. G. Hoskins described the Arscotts as one of the ancient families of freeholders that rose to the ranks of the squirearchy over a period of 300 years or so by the steady accumulation of property, mostly through marriage. Originating at Arscott (now known as South Arscott, north of the town of Holsworthy), a junior branch of the family moved to Tetcott in about 1550.
  Arthur Arscott (1554–1618) built a new manor house at Tetcott in 1603, which survives today in expanded form. A new and larger house was built adjacent to it by his descendants during the reign of Queen Anne (1702–1714). At this time new outbuildings were built in brick, unusual in Devon, some of which survive. The Queen Anne style house was demolished in 1831.
caption: Arms of Arscott: Per chevron azure and ermine in chief two buck's heads cabossed or[10]
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