Family affairs
THIS week sees the launch in Country Life of three memorable Devon houses, the present-day owners of which still cherish historic links with the families that originally built them. For sale through the Exeter office of Strutt & Parker (01392 215631) at a guide price of £4.3 million, Grade II*-listed Widworthy Barton is a beautifully renovated, 16th-century former manor house set in 43 acres of wonderfully secluded gardens, grounds and bluebell woods within the East Devon AONB, five miles from Honiton and eight miles from the Jurassic Coast at Exmouth.
Although local records suggest that the oldest parts of the house date from the early 13th-century, when the aristocratic William de Widworthy was lord of the manor, the building was
