ORCHARD PORTMAN HOUSE
The Tudor mansion of the Portman family rose on a site west of the parish church about the middle of the 16th century, and was almost certainly the work of Sir William Portman, Lord Chief Justice of England (d. 1557). It was left to succeeding generations to enlarge the house on the grand scale, and it may have been another Sir William, the 6th baronet (1644 -
No trace of the buildings remain on the site, which is the current location of Taunton Race Course.
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THE PORTMAN COAT OF ARMS
Inventory of Orchard Portman House
taken on 22 August 1690
on the death of Sir William Portman