page_title: Edge, Branscombe
section_title: Wyndham/Fox-Strangways
hierarchical_section_title: Edge, Branscombe / Descent of the manor / Wyndham/Fox-Strangways
caption_attribution_description: English: Arms of Wyndham: Azure, a chevron between three lion's heads erased or
context_page_description: Edge, is an ancient and historic house in the parish of Branscombe, Devon, England and is today known as Edge Barton Manor. The surviving house is grade II* listed and sits on the steep, south-facing side of a wooded valley, or combe. The building was not in origin a manor house, but was one of the first stone-built houses in "Branescombe", on a villein holding called La Regge. It is one of the oldest continuously inhabited houses in England, and is constructed from the local Beer stone
context_section_description: Following the death of Dorothy Wadham in 1618, Edge passed into the families of the sisters and co-heiresses (at least in their issue) of Nicholas Wadham; namely, the Martyns of Athelhampton, Dorset, the Wyndhams of Orchard Wyndham, Somerset, later Earls of Egremont at Petworth House in Sussex, and the Strangways of Melbury House, Dorset, later, as Fox-Strangways, Earls of Ilchester, who retained co-ownership until 1933 and in the interval let Edge to a series of tenant farmers.
caption: Arms of Wyndham: Azure, a chevron between three lion's heads erased or
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