offer to the village. The Manor of West Torrington In the early 17th century the manor belonged to George St Poll of Snarford. In his will of 1612, he left the manor, along with several others, to his wife Frances. By 1618, Frances had remarried and she and her new husband, the Earl of Warwick, granted the manor to her first husband's other heir, another George St Poll. The ’Great Torrington’ estate in Lincolnshire was purchased by Sir Robert Ainslie and his brother George in 1789. Sir Robert Ainslie was at the time the ambassador to the Ottoman Empire and living in Constantinople. George Ainslie was a general in the British army and was Lieutenant Governor of the Scilly Isles. The Ainslie Baronetcy of Great Torrington was created for Sir Robert. General George Ainslie died in 1804 and Robert in 1812 at which point West Torrington passed to George's son, Robert Sharpe Ainslie. Ainslie however did not live in the village, preferring London. The estate was sold after Robert Sharpe Ainslie's death in 1858. Roger Sharpley, a farmer from Great Carlton near Louth purchased the Torrington part of Ainslie's estate for 56,200l at a sale in Stamford on 18 November 1858. Roger Sharpley died in 1866 and his son Anthony, who was living in Ivy Cottage in West Torrington at that point, became Lord of the Manor, he is listed as such in the 1876 Post Office Directory. In 1877 a notice appeared in the Stamford Mercury that the West Torrington manor and lordship would be up for sale as part of the Estate of John Booth Sharpley, who was Anthony's uncle and had died in 1872. Anthony himself died at the age of 42 on 20 March 1879. Edmund Turnor bought the manor from the Sharpleys, he is lord of the manor in 1889. In 1905 his nephew Christopher is lord. Christopher H Turnor of Stoke Rochford is still lord of the manor in the 1913 Kelly's Directory. In 1917, rents were low and landowners in Lincolnshire with more than one residence sold off some of their land. Turnor, who lived mainly at Stoke Rochford Hall, sold his Panton estate in August. West Torrington was not part of the sale and Turnor continued to appear as lord of the manor in later directories. C.H. Turnor died in August 1940 and his nephew Major Herbert Broke Turnor inherited. Major Turnor's