Retirement Properties Spotlight in Bridestowe

Bridestowe: Bridestowe is situated on the edge of Dartmoor and is named after St Bridget, one of the most revered of the Irish Saints who founded numerous monasteries and churches in Ireland and died in A.D. 525. St Bridget of Kildare was renowned for her work amongst the poor. That the parish and manor were of very early foundation is clear from the entry in Domesday Book which notes that the land was held by Ralph Pomeroy, a wealthy Norman, from Baldwin the Sheriff and there were nine villeins, four bordars and eight serfs.