 They erected many 19th-century public buildings and statues in the town at their own expense.Before 1810 the family had only one formal residence in Devonshire, namely the townhouse of Bedford House in the City of Exeter.In 1810 John Russell, 6th Duke of Bedford built to the designs of Sir Jeffry Wyattville a new residence named Endsleigh Cottage at Milton Abbot, near Tavistock, a former manor belonging to the Abbey.