50°43′54″N 3°29′28″W / 50.7318°N 3.4911°W / 50.7318; -3.4911 Whipton Barton was an estate farm to the East of Exeter. The 'Barton' suffix is the traditional Devon wording for the manor house, and indicates a demesne in the feudal system.

Whilst the house and farm no longer exist, they have given their name to an area of Exeter.

Whipton Barton was for hundreds of years, a tenant farm of the Poltimore Estate, seat of the Bampfylde family, with the Rewe (spelt Rew in some reports) family being tenants for over 300 years.

In 1850, the Whipton Barton farm was the location for the Royal Show of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, where it was described as having "a deep, red loamy surface soil, with gravelly base".

In 1859, land from Whipton Barton was set aside for the building of a chapel of rest to serve the local area.

During the coming of age ceremony in 1880 for his son, the then Lord Poltimore talked of the generations of the Rewe family who had been tenants of Whipton Barton, and expressed his wish that there would always be a Rewe at Whipton Barton, and a Bampfylde at Poltimore.

In the event, despite the long connection with the estate, the Rewes faced a declining business, and auctioned their livestock, equipment, and house furnishings in a series of auctions, winding the Barton down during 1886. The farm was clearly a mixed farm, with auction lots including corn, sheep, cows, and horses.

The end of the Rewes' association with the farm also meant that farm laborers were evicted from their tied housing, causing one of them to hang himself in 1901, in his bed at the cottage.