page_title: Sheepstor
section_title: Manor
hierarchical_section_title: Sheepstor / Manor
caption_attribution_description: English: Arms of Elford of Sheepstor, Devon: Per pale argent and azure, a lion rampant gules (Source: Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitation of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 &amp; 1620, Exeter, 1895, p.329). For a surviving example of these arms see the large plaster overmantel in Coombe Barton, Roborough, (Torridge) showing Wollocombe (Argent, three bars gules) impaling Elford, apparently for Roger Wollocombe (1632-1704) (4th son and eventual heir to his father John Wollocombe (1598-1663) of Coombe) to Gertrude Elford (d.1681), a daughter and co-heiress of John Elford of Sheepstor
context_page_description: Sheepstor is a village, civil parish and former manor on the western side of Dartmoor in the county of Devon, England. In 2001 its population was 53, down from 95 in 1901. For administrative purposes the parish is grouped with the parishes of Meavy and Walkhampton to form Burrator Parish Council, and for electoral purposes it is grouped with the same two parishes to form Burrator Ward. Burrator Reservoir, constructed in 1898, is to the north of the village and forms part of the northern boundary of the parish.
  The name Sheepstor has evolved considerably since the first reference to a settlement here which was recorded in a pipe roll of 1168 as Sitelestorra. In a document of 1262 it was Skytelestor, Shittestorre in 1474, Shistor in 1547 and in c. 1620 Tristram Risdon called it Shetelstor now Shepstor. The name probably derives from the Old English scyttel meaning a bar or bolt, reflecting the shape of the nearby Sheeps Tor.
context_section_description: The manor of Sheepstor was held by the Scudamore family, whose heirs were the Elford family.
caption: Arms of Elford of Sheepstor: Per pale argent and azure, a lion rampant gules[5]
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