Author: victor1916

THERE ARE ALWAYS “ WAYS AND MEANS” No apology for the title of the North Crawley Historic Signage project named after my historic hero William Lowndes whose favourite saying  it was. The germ of...

Hannah Foskett – Will – 1744 This is last Will of me Hannah Foskett of North Crawley in the county of Bucks, widow made on this first day of October in the eighteenth year...

Henrietta Maslin

In the write up of Broughton Manor in Professor Chibnells book “Beyond Sherington” he tells us “Another subtenant William Dault conveyed to Robert de Braybrook around 1200 his Manor House, Mill & Mill Pond...

Filliols Manor was owned by Robert Trevor from the Trevor Family of Bromham at the enclosure of  North Crawley in 1773, the family also had substantial property interests in Astwood. In the extracts from...

THE GRANGE ESTATE (FORMERLY MATHIAS MANOR) After the boundary dispute between King David of Scotland holder of the Honor of Huntingdon and the Abbot of Ramsey was settled in 1128, King David’s fee in...

BOCLAND MANOR – HURST END FARM By the early Tudor period Bocland Manor House at Hurst End had become a farmhouse. A William Johnson who died in 1593 was said to own a messuage...

HAUDLO MANOR   John de Haudlo took his name from Hadlow a village in Kent near Tonbridge and by the early 17th century local pronunciation had modified it to Hallous or Hollows Manor. He...