Mr. Lysons gives the descents of property in this parish. He says the
manor of North Tamarton was given by Roger de Valletort to Richard
Earl of Cornwall, and that Roger Earl of Cornwall gave it to Gervase
de Harningate. It was afterwards in the Carminows. In 1620 it belonged
to Tristram Arscott, esq. and afterwards to the Rolles, of whom it was
purchased by the late Sir John Call of Whiteford.
The manor of Hornacot or Horningcote belonged at an early period to a
family of that name; in 1620 it was possessed by Sir Charles Howard,
in right of his wife, the daughter of Sir John Fitz of Fitzford near
Tavistock, and was afterwards in the Courtenays; and finally passed
from them by purchase to the late Mr. George Browne of Bodmin.
Ogbere, called by Norden Ugbere, was in his time the seat of William
Lovice, and had been the residence of Leonard Lovice, probably the
father or grandfather of William, and is stated, by a monumental
inscription still extant in the church, to have been Receiver-general
of the Duchy Revenues for Queen Elizabeth.
Vacye, in remote times the seat of a family bearing the same name, is
now the residence of George Call, esq. younger son of the late Sir
John Call.
This parish contains besides the church town three small villages
called Alvacot, Headon, and Venton.
Tamarton measures 4788 statute acres.
Annual value of the Real Property as £. _s._ _d._
returned to Parliament in 1815 2,115 0 0
Poor Rate in 1831 330 13 0
Population,――{ in 1801, | in 1811, | in 1821, | in 1831,
{ 403 | 420 | 479 | 517
giving an increase of 28 per cent. in 30 years.
Present incumbent, the Rev. C. P. Coffin, instituted in 1813.