BRANSCOMB, (Devon) near the British-channel, 3 or 4 m. S. of Culliton, bel. before the conquest, to the ch. of Exeter,
afterwards to the abby of Canon's-Leigh, and in the R. of Edward III. was the seat of Richard Branscomb, who was 4 times
sheriff and Kt. of the shire. At the ref. it was sold to Sir Bernard Drake, Kt. and came afterwards to Sir John Wadham, a
Judge, from whom it descended, by an heiress, to the Strangeways, and then to the Wyndhams and Martins.