Peamore, Exminster

Peamore (anciently Pevmere, Peanmore, Peamont, etc.) is an historic estate in the parish of Exminster, Devon, situated near to the City of Exeter. In 1810 Peamore House was described as "one of the most pleasant seats in the neighbourhood of Exeter". The house was remodelled in the early 19th century and is now a grade II listed building.

The Domesday Book of 1086 records PEVMERE as the 12th of the 58 holdings of Ralph de Pomeroy, first feudal baron of Berry Pomeroy, Devon, one of the Devon Domesday Book tenants-in-chief of King William the Conqueror. His tenant was Roger FitzPayne. It later passed to the feudal barony of Lancaster.

According to Pole (d.1635), Peanmore in the parish of Exminster was the inheritance of the family of Bolhay, of Blackborough Bolhay. James de Bolhay was the last in the male line, whose daughter and heiress Amisia Bolhay was the wife of Sir John Cobham.

Sir John Cobham (d.1335) inherited Blackborough and Peamore upon his marriage to Amisia Bolhay, heiress of Peamore. it remained in the Cobham family for several generations until the male line failed. Elizabeth Cobham was the heiress of Peamore, but died without progeny.

The heirs general of Elizabeth Cobham were Lord Hungerford, Hill of Spaxton and Bampfield of Poltimore. However the succession was claimed by the magnate Sir William Bonville (c.1392/3-1461) (later 1st Baron Bonville) of Shute, who "carried away this and the greatest part of the land".

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