IWC are regulated by the Society of Will Writers and Estate Planning Practitioners

We offer Probate consultations within the privacy of your own home for all towns within Devon. If you would like to make a Will with us then please use our online will writing service.

For Probate appointments we will be happy to visit you during the day or evening at a time that's convenient to you. We do not operate with high pressure tactics. All of our staff are fully trained in subjects such as Probate, Wills, Letters of administrations and much more, compassionate, friendly and keen to help.

So that we can start putting your mind at rest please call us free of charge on 0800 612 6105, alternatively if you prefer to call a land line number or if calling from a mobile phone call 020 8150 2010

We look forward to talking to you shortly.

History

In the year 1240 an area known as Pratteshuthe ("Pratt’s landing place") was sold to the Mayor and citizens of Exeter. This was the site of the estuary’s ferry dock and over time the name evolved first into Pratteshide, then Mona Island, with the original site now marked by a seating area adjacent to the modern Magnolia Shopping Centre.

For some centuries, commercial trade through the port was limited in part by the shallow waters on the approach to the quay, but mainly by the power of Exeter, which owned the dock and controlled all estuary traffic. The roads in and out of the area were also in a poor state, remaining rudimentary for many years, governed and only occasionally repaired by the parishes through which they ran. A more permanent dock was not built until 1825, which replaced a series of apparently seasonal docks first noted on maps dating from 1576 as "The Docke". New docks design by Eugenius Birch were opened in 1868, with a short branch laid to connect them to the railway goods yard. The area adjacent to the docks was once home to a thriving community composed of some 125 chalets built directly on the shoreline. These have now been replaced by a residential marina complex known as Exmouth Quay.

Human habitation in the town was, in part, restricted by the harsh exposed position on the estuary – civilisation took a hold in a greater and more permanent way in the more comfortable outer lying rural areas. It was not until the 13th century that the town began to develop Morin Uppehille owned the land, granting part of it to John the miller who in turn built a windmill, who thus earned his living on this exposed point, aided by the prevailing south-west winds. The windmill together with the ferry dock and a small scattering of nearby farm buildings began to develop into the early stages of what we now know as Exmouth.

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