page_title: Wadham, Knowstone
hierarchical_section_title: Wadham, Knowstone
caption_attribution_description: English: Panorama of Wadham in the parish of Knowstone, North Devon, England. A Domesday Book manor.
context_page_description: The manor of Wadham in the parish of Knowstone in north Devon and the nearby manors of Chenudestane and Chenuestan are listed in the Domesday Book of 1086:
  "Ulf holds Wadeham. He himself held it in the time of King Edward".
  Samuel Lysons suggested in his Magna Britannia that Ulf may have been an ancestor to the Wadhams.
  'Wadeham' was the earliest recorded residence of the prominent Wadham family, which ended in the senior male line in the person of Nicholas Wadham of Merryfield, Ilton in Somerset and Edge, Branscombe in Devon, co-founder of Wadham College, Oxford, founded largely after his death, by his wife Dorothy Wadham.
context_section_description: The manor of Wadham in the parish of Knowstone in north Devon and the nearby manors of Chenudestane and Chenuestan (more anciently known as Cnudstone and Cnuston with the possible meaning "Canutestone") are listed in the Domesday Book of 1086: 
  "Ulf holds Wadeham. He himself held it in the time of King Edward" ('The Confessor').
  Samuel Lysons suggested in his Magna Britannia that Ulf may have been an ancestor to the Wadhams.
  'Wadeham' was the earliest recorded residence of the prominent Wadham (originally de Wadham) family, which ended in the senior male line in the person of Nicholas Wadham (1531–1609) of Merryfield, Ilton in Somerset and Edge, Branscombe in Devon, co-founder of Wadham College, Oxford, founded largely after his death, by his wife Dorothy Wadham (died 1618).
caption: Wadham, panorama viewed from south
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