Molland

Molland (or Molland-Bottreaux) is a civil parish and small village located on the southern slopes of Exmoor in North Devon, England. The former manor of Molland, largely co-terminous with the parish boundary, continues in existence as a large private estate under the ownership of Mrs Clare McLaren-Throckmorton (b.1935), of Coughton Court, Alcester, Warwickshire, the niece and sole heiress of Sir Robert George Maxwell Throckmorton, 11th Baronet (1908–1989), whose family inherited the manor after 1732 from the family of Courtenay of Molland, a cadet branch of the House of Courtenay, Earls of Devon, which had inherited Molland in the 15th century from the family of Hungerford, which had inherited from Botreaux. In 2009 the estate comprised 6,250 acres, 1,700 of which are accounted for by Molland Moor, and includes 40 residential properties forming most of Molland village, 13 farms, the London Inn public house and additional land lettings. In Molland was developed the breed of red Devon cattle, of which a famous herd still exists at Great Champson.