The small village of Gayhurst has been closely linked with Stoke Goldington since 1265, and the occupants of Gayhurst Manor were in possession of both villages for many centuries.
This arrangement came to an end with the Great Stoke Goldington Sale of 1912, when Sir William Walter Carlile gave the villagers the chance to purchase their own properties. read more…
The small Hamlet and Manor of Gayhurst has had more than its share of History, Romance, Intrigue and Adventure than it has a right to expect. Situated in a remote northern corner of Buckinghamshire, you might expect that little of consequence had ever happened here?
How wrong you would be….
- Life and death in the Bronze Age
- Occupation by the Romans.
- Home to Leofwine, a kinsman of King Harold (both killed at Battle of Hastings)
- Tenanted by William the Conqueror’s treacherous half-brother, Bishop Odo of Bayeux.
- Given to Sir Francis Drake by Good Queen Bess.
- Home of Sir Everard Digby Gunpowder Plotter.
- Leased to Lord Carrington, by Lady Macdonald
- Residence of Sir Walter Carlile M.P.
- Owned by Lord Hesketh.
- A satellite of The Bletchley Park codebreakers.
- Owned by The Bank of Switzerland, as a store
- Converted into the Rodbourne boy’s boarding college.
- and finally – Development into a series of private dwellings in the 1970s
Actually a place of some interest!
Click on the links below for more information on Gayhurst:
Gayhurst 1885 Photo Collection
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