Holbeton

Coordinates: 50°20′06″N 3°56′56″W / 50.335°N 3.949°W / 50.335; -3.949

Holbeton is a civil parish and village located 9 miles south east of Plymouth in the South Hams district of Devon, England. Historically it formed part of Ermington Hundred. To the east of the village is an Iron age enclosure or hill fort known as Holbury.

Holbeton is a considerable village set back from the wooded shores of the River Erme estuary.

Historic estates

The parish of Holbeton contains several historic estates including:

Flete

Flete House is situated in a large park and was formerly the seat of Baron Mildmay of Flete and is now converted into apartments. Flete owes its present character to the architect Norman Shaw who remodelled it extensively from 1878 onwards. He built the great tower on the north front, rebuilt the north-west wing, and altered the interior to put in "over-rich Tudor". The house had already been remodelled in the Gothic style in 1835, and the front is all of this date.

Mothecombe

The estate of Mothecombe was a seat of a junior branch of the Pollexfen family of Kitley, Yealmpton. The mansion house was built by John Pollexfen circa 1710-20. In 1872 it was acquired by Henry Bingham Mildmay (of Barings Bank) who 4 years later in 1876 also acquired Flete, in the same parish of Holbeton, the ancestral home of his wife Georgiana Bulteel, which had been sold in 1863 by her brother to an Australian sheep farmer.