page_title: Whiteway House
section_title: Bennett
hierarchical_section_title: Whiteway House / Descent of the estate / Bennett
caption_attribution_description: English: Arms of Bennett of Whiteway in the parish of Chudleigh, Devon: Sable, a chevron engrailed erminois between three ears of wheat or (Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 &amp; 1620, Exeter, 1895, p.72)
context_page_description: Whiteway House in the parish of Chudleigh in Devon is a Grade II* listed Georgian house set in parkland. It was built in the 1770s by John Parker, 1st Baron Boringdon of Saltram House, Plympton, and has early 19th-century alterations. It is situated 2½ miles north of Chudleigh, at the foot of the Haldon Hills. The house had formerly a 5-bay north-east wing, a service range and a separate 19th-century service block to the rear, all demolished since 1962.
  It should be distinguished from Whiteway in the parish of Kingsteignton, Devon, 4 3/4 miles to the south, a manor listed in the Domesday Book as the 157th Devonshire possession of Baldwin de Moels, Sheriff of Devon, feudal baron of Okehampton, and in 1795 a grand mansion illustrated by Swete, formerly a seat of the Yard family of Bradley, Kingsteignton, and today a farmhouse known as Whiteway Barton.
context_section_description: The Devon historian Thomas Westcote (d.1637) gives the pedigree of the family of Bennett as follows: " Richard Bennet married Julian, daughter of William Whiteway of Chudleigh parish, and had issue Nicholas, William, and John. Nicholas married Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Pomeroy, of Brindley in the parish of Harberton, knight, and had issue John, William sine prole, English, (married to Thomas Thorn of Mamhead;) Julian, (to Roger Harewell of Kingsteignton;) Joan, (to Peter Bear of the same;) Sabine. (to Humphrey Ball of Chudleigh.) John married a daughter of John Trosse, of Exeter". A ledger stone survives in the north aisle of Chudleigh Church inscribed as follows:
  "Here lyeth ye body of John Bennett, Gentleman, late of Whitewaye, who was borne ye 7th of October, Ano 1573, and was buried ye 29th of November, An(n)o 1629"
  The last mention of the name in the Parish Register is in 1634. The arms of Bennett of Whiteway, Chudleigh, were: Sable, a chevron engrailed erminois between three ears of wheat or
caption: Arms of Bennett: Sable, a chevron engrailed erminois between three ears of wheat or[5]
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