Dean Milles' Questionnaire of 1753 it had been converted into several poor tenements. The large manor (which extended over the adjoining parishes of Landkey and Swimbridge) remained the property of the See of Exeter until the Dissolution of the Monasteries when it was granted in 1550 by King Henry VIII, with other vast donations including Tavistock Abbey in South Devon, to his minister John Russell, 1st Earl of Bedford (1485-1555). It remained a possession of the Dukes of Bedford until after 1872, although the advowson of the church was retained by the See and was still in 1872 exercisable by the Dean of Exeter Cathedral.