The Elizabethan mansion of the Fords survives today at Bagtor as the service wing of a later house appended in about 1700. Thomas Ford's grandfather was John Ford (died 1538) of Ashburton (the son and heir of William Ford of Chagford ) who purchased the estate of Bagtor in the parish of Ilsington, which his male heirs successively made their seat. He was the second son of Thomas Ford (1556–1610) of Bagtor in the parish of Ilsington, and his wife Elizabeth Popham (died 1629) of the Popham family of Huntworth in Somerset. John Ford was baptised 17 April 1586 at Ilsington Church, Devon. Although remembered primarily as a playwright, he also wrote a number of poems on themes of love and morality. His plays deal mainly with the conflict between passion and conscience. 1639) was an English playwright and poet of the Jacobean and Caroline eras born in Ilsington in Devon, England.
Arms of Ford of Bagtor and Nutwell: Party per fesse or and sable, in chief a greyhound courant in base an owl within a bordure engrailed all counter-changed
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