HAUDLO MANOR later called HOLLOWS 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 inherited it through his wife Joan and maintained a demesne farm there, in a tax return of 1332 he was rated nearly as high as his near neighbour John Filliol of the moated Manor House in East End.
Haudlo Manor House occupied the site of the old rectory at the corner of Folly Lane, on high ground to the east of a spring that fed fish ponds in a small enclosed field in Brook End which still bears the name of Hollows Close (Chibnall field no 30).
Later the owner Robert Tetlow did not live in the Manor House but preferred to live at Broadmead Farm on Broadmead Lane which branched off the Crawley Cranfield Road to Broadmead Green and then run east to pass the Rectory, Filliols Manor, East End Farm & East Field Farm on its way to Astwood & Stagsden.
Bequests had several times been made to repair a stretch of Broadmead Lane which ran from Parsonage to the riverbed.
Broadmead Farm was sold with Hollows Manor to Ralph Smith the rector of Milton Keynes in 1615 and in 1709 his grandson Ralph sold it to Francis Duncombe, then after a settlement on John & Anne Robinson it was sold to William Lowndes in 1719.
The old Haudlo Manor House at the corner of Folly Lane was let to tenants as a farmhouse.
Up to 1611 Thomas Moore had been the holder of the Honor of Gloucester and Haudlo or Hollows Manor had been one of its fees.
In 1672 the owner of the house Edward Nash was described as a Blacksmith and he sold out to Thomas Hackett who already owned Church End Farm including “Newton Close” (Chibnall 119) south of the smithy.
In the Latimer survey of 1718 under Thomas’s successor Sir Nicholas Carew it states “A Messuage and a Close called Newton’s in Church End containing 3 acres and a half, the houses are all burnt down”.
A small farmhouse was soon built by Sir Nicholas’s agent William Leveret to replace the ruined smithy.
With 11 acres of land in the open fields and the Caldwell Closes this was run as a second farm by George Law the tenant of the Grange Farm.
Thomas Griggs succeeded him later in the century. In 1799 the Bishops of Lincoln convened a commission to consider the future of the Rectory in Broadmead (c19) which was in a dilapidated condition.
The owner of the Grange Estate, William Selby Lowndes agreed to exchange the Caldwell Farmhouse with its garden and orchard for the Broadmead Rectory. The farmhouse was pulled down early in 1800 and the house with outbuildings now called the Old Rectory erected in its place.