"Whiteway, seat of the Yardes", watercolour by Reverend
John Swete (died 1821) dated 10 July 1795. Devon Record Office: DRO 564M/F8/119Whiteway Barton in 2009
Whiteway is an historic estate in the parish of
Kingsteignton, Devon. It should be distinguished from
Whiteway House in the parish of
Chudleigh, Devon, 4 3/4 miles (7.6 km) to the north, in the 18th century a seat of the
Parker family of
Saltram.
In 1795 during one of his Picturesque Tours around Devon, Swete passed by Whiteway and made a watercolour painting of the then larger mansion house, entitled "Whiteway, seat of the Yardes" and dated 10 July 1795. The painting is now in the collection of the Devon Records Office.[9] Swete wrote of the visit as follows in his Travel Journal:[10]
"Of this mansion I took the following sketch, induced thereto not so much by its respectability or situation, both of which however have enough to attract notice, as from its having given birth to my mother and been the place of residence of her ancestors for centuries... Whiteway, the abode of farmers occupiers of the estates: such is the vicissitude of things. The buildings here for the period in which they were raised had rather a respectable appearance, and situate as it is on a knoll, it had command of the little valley, looked full upon the picturesque wood from whence i was making my observations".
2017
Today the remnant of Whiteway is a
grade II listed farmhouse known as Whiteway
Barton,[11] and situated in the grounds is the "Whiteway Barton
Motocross Track", a "hardpack track in a steep valley, 3/4 mile in length, natural with a selection of jumps and tabletops".[12]
^Gray, Todd & Rowe, Margery (Eds.), Travels in Georgian Devon: The Illustrated Journals of The Reverend
John Swete, 1789-1800, 4 vols., Tiverton, 1999, Vol 2, p.164
^Gray, Todd & Rowe, Margery (Eds.), Travels in Georgian Devon: The Illustrated Journals of The Reverend
John Swete, 1789-1800, 4 vols., Tiverton, 1999, Vol 2, p.164; Pevsner, p.556
^Devon Record Office: DRO 564M/F8/119, published in
Gray, Todd & Rowe, Margery (Eds.), Travels in Georgian Devon: The Illustrated Journals of The Reverend
John Swete, 1789-1800, 4 vols., Tiverton, 1999 , Vol.2, p.164