Chittlehamholt, originally a clearing in the wood, became a logging station to which the people of Chittlehampton came to cut timber, and eventually grew into a separate hamlet. Throughout the Middle Ages and up to the reign of Henry VIII, it was a park belonging to the earls of Devon, and until 1885 it was a part of Chittlehampton known as the South Quarter of the village; the name appears in old parish records as Chittlehamholt.