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A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 8: Warminster, Westbury and Whorwellsdown Hundreds
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'Westbury: Manors', A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 8: Warminster, Westbury and Whorwellsdown Hundreds (1965), pp. 148-163. URL: http://british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=16096 Date accessed: 26 November 2014.
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In 1086 the king, as successor to Queen
Edith, held WESTBURY. (fn. 40) It could thus later
claim to be ancient demesne of the Crown. (fn. 41) The
royal manor was assessed at 40 hides, and was
co-extensive with the hundred. (fn. 42) The process of
fragmentation of this large manor by royal grant
had begun before 1086, for by then William Scudet,
the king's cook, held an estate of 4½ hides which
was to form later the manor of Dilton. (fn. 43) Several
further grants of land in the manor were made in
the 12th century. Henry I gave 4 bovates to Salisbury Cathedral which later formed the Rectory
manor. (fn. 44) The Empress Maud granted land to
Humphrey FitzOdo, (fn. 45) and also made a large grant
to William Defuble. A gift by Defuble to the priory
of Le Pré (dép. Seine-Inférieur) later formed the
manor of Westbury Priory. (fn. 46) The rest of Defuble's
land was regranted by Henry II to Joce de Dinan,
and by division between his heirs and subinfeudation formed the manors later known as Westbury
Mauduits, Leigh Priors, Westbury Leversage, and
Bremeridge. (fn. 47) Other unrecorded grants by Henry
II or his predecessors gave rise to the manors of
Leigh, Penleigh, and Bratton. (fn. 48) What was left after
all these gifts was granted away in 1173, and by
successive division between coheirs formed the
estates later known as Westbury Stourton, Westbury Seymour, Westbury Arundell, and Brook. (fn. 49)
Other estates, acquired by religious houses from
various gifts, were known as the manors of Godswell and Heywood. (fn. 50)
The capital manor of Westbury, after its reduction by the grants mentioned above, was held at
farm by four men from 1170 to 1173, (fn. 51) when it
was granted by the king to Reynold Pavely. (fn. 52) He
was holding the manor in 1194, (fn. 53) and must have
died c. 1200, when the wardship of his heir was
given to Ralph de Beauchamp. (fn. 54) In 1209 the
Pope threatened to place Westbury under an interdict if it were not restored to Queen Berengaria
of whose dower it was then claimed it formed a
part. (fn. 55) The outcome of this threat is unknown. On
his death in 1256 Walter Pavely was holding
Westbury by the service of one knight's fee. (fn. 56) The
manor at that time comprised the four estates or
hamlets of Brook, Headinghill, Stoke, and Dilton. (fn. 57)
It passed from Walter Pavely to his son, Reynold
(d. 1280); (fn. 58) from Reynold to his son Walter, who
was sheriff of Wiltshire in 1289 and 1296, (fn. 59) and
died in 1323; (fn. 60) from Walter it passed to his son
Reynold (d. 1347), (fn. 61) and from Reynold to his son
John. (fn. 62) Sir John Pavely died in 1361. His heirs
were Joan, Elizabeth, and Eleanor, daughters of
his daughter Alice by his first marriage, who had
married John St. Lo and survived her father by
half a day only, and Joan, his daughter by his
second marriage. All the girls were under age. (fn. 63)
The wardship of Joan Pavely was granted to the
Bishop of Winchester. By the partition of her
father's lands Joan received the manor of Westbury, the hamlet of Headinghill, (fn. 64) and half the
profits and perquisites of the view of frankpledge,
the hundred, fairs, market, and portmote of Westbury. The rest of Sir John's property went to John
St. Lo for his daughters. (fn. 65) After Joan's marriage,
her husband, Ralph Cheyney, objected that his
wife's share was inferior in value to that allotted
to the daughters of John St. Lo, and a second partition was made in 1368. (fn. 66) By this Ralph and Joan
Cheyney were to hold the manor of Brook, the
hamlets of Ditteridge, (fn. 67) and Hawkeridge, and half
the profits of the view of frankpledge, the hundred,
fair, market, and portmote of Westbury; the manor
of Westbury with the hamlets of Headinghill,
Stoke, Milborne, and Leigh, the other half of the
profits mentioned above, and the whole of the rent
of the 'shamelhouse' in Westbury were assigned
to John St. Lo for his daughters. (fn. 68) John St. Lo
died in 1375 and the manor of Westbury with the
hamlet of Headinghill was divided between his
two surviving daughters, Joan, wife of Sir John
Chidiock, and Eleanor, wife of Thomas of Bradeston. (fn. 69)
Sir John Chidiock died in 1390 and his heir was
his son John (II) aged twelve. (fn. 70) Joan, his widow,
survived her husband and married secondly John
Bache upon whom she settled the manor in 1392. (fn. 71)
John Bache died in 1409 and the manor reverted to
John Chidiock (II). (fn. 72) John Chidiock (II) died in
1415 and was succeeded by his son John Chidiock
(III), also a minor. (fn. 73) On the death of John Chidiock
(III) in 1450 his share in the manor of Westbury
was divided between his daughters, Katharine,
wife of William Stafford, and Margaret, wife of
William Stourton (d. 1477). (fn. 74)
William Stourton succeeded to the title of Lord
Stourton in 1462 and his share in the manor of
Westbury descended with the title until the execution of Charles, Lord Stourton, in 1557 for the
murder of Thomas Hartgill, (fn. 75) when it was fortfeited to the Crown. In 1570 this estate, by now
known as WESTBURY STOURTON, was granted
to Edward Dyer. (fn. 76) Dyer conveyed it in the same
year to Stephen Whitaker (fn. 77) on whose death in 1576
it passed to his son Henry. (fn. 78) Henry was succeeded
by his second son, William, (fn. 79) who sold it in 1619–20,
with the exception of Bitham House, a fulling mill
called Bitham Mill, (fn. 80) and a close called Gaston, to
Sir James Ley (cr. Earl of Marlborough 1626). (fn. 81)
Among the property which comprised the manor
at this time was land near Dogget's Lane, a close
called Apsleys, presumably near the present Apsley
Farm, Stourton's Wood, no doubt to be identified
with Stourton Bushes, in Dilton Marsh, (fn. 82) and
land scattered throughout the fields of Westbury,
Dilton, Leigh, Heywood, Hawkeridge, and
Bratton. (fn. 83)
William Stafford, husband of Katharine Chidiock,
died in 1450, and his share in Westbury passed to
his son Humphrey, who was created Earl of Devon
in 1469 and executed the same year. (fn. 84) He left no
issue, (fn. 85) and the fee of the manor remained with his
mother, who survived him. She married as her
second husband Sir John Arundell. The manor,
with certain other estates, was mortgaged to raise
money for the fine imposed upon Arundell for his
part at the battle of Tewkesbury. (fn. 86) He died deeply
in debt, and his wife, who married thirdly Roger
Lewkenore, died in 1479 leaving as her heir Thomas
Arundell her son by her second husband. (fn. 87) Thomas
died in 1485 before he had been able to pay off
his father's debts, and the manor passed to his son
John, who was said to hold it of Sir Robert Willoughby, who was a cousin of Humphrey Stafford. (fn. 88)
Thomas's son, Sir John Arundell, sold, in 1549–50,
to Thomas Long, clothier of Trowbridge, a mill
and various tenements in Westbury, which probably comprised the whole of this part of the manor. (fn. 89)
Thomas Long died childless seised of the manor in
1562, (fn. 90) and the manor passed under his will to his
nephew Edward Long. Edward and his son Gifford
sold the manor in 1613 under the name of Westbury and WESTBURY ARUNDELL to Sir
James Ley. (fn. 91) The estate at this date included a mill,
and was said to lie in Westbury, Bratton, Imber,
and Edington. (fn. 92)
Eleanor of Bradeston, the second daughter of
Sir John St. Lo, married secondly Sir Richard
Seymour, who died seised of his wife's share of
the manor in 1401. (fn. 93) His heir was his son Richard,
but Eleanor survived her husband, and in 1408
conveyed the manor to John Seymour, presumably
a younger son, and his wife Margaret, a daughter
of John Erlegh, and their issue. (fn. 94) After the death of
John Seymour, Margaret married Sir Walter
Sondes, who held the manor in her right at the
time of his death in 1428. (fn. 95) Margaret married
thirdly Sir William Cheyney and died in 1443 when
the property passed to her grandson, Thomas, son
of John Seymour. (fn. 96) Thomas settled the manor
upon his son John Seymour and Elizabeth his wife
and their heirs. Elizabeth outlived John and
married secondly John Biconill and on her death in
1505 was succeeded by her granddaughter Joan,
daughter of her son William Seymour who died in
1503. (fn. 97) Joan married William Drewry and died
childless in 1517, and her heirs were her cousins
John Stawell and Edward Bamfield, sons of her
aunts Anne and Margaret, sisters of William
Seymour. (fn. 98) Edward Bamfield died in 1528 and
was succeeded by his son John. (fn. 99) John Stawell sold
his share in 1566 to Thomas Webbe and Margaret
his wife, (fn. 1) who also acquired from Richard Bamfield that part of the manor which had belonged to
John Bamfield. (fn. 2) In 1574 they settled the two parts
upon themselves with remainder in tail to their
daughters, Joan, wife of Alexander Chocke, and
Elizabeth, wife of Robert Webbe. (fn. 3) Thomas Webbe
died in 1585, (fn. 4) and in 1602 Robert and Elizabeth
Webbe conveyed their interest, which was the
remainder in default of heirs of Joan and Alexander
Chocke, to trustees for the queen and her successors. (fn. 5) This interest was granted in 1616 by James I
to Sir Francis Popham and Richard Organ. (fn. 6) Between 1605 and 1607 Alexander and Joan Chocke
settled the manor on themselves and their heirs,
with remainder to their nephew Alexander, son
of Alexander the elder's younger brother Francis. (fn. 7)
This apparently superseded the settlement of 1574,
for on Alexander the elder's death without issue
in 1607, the manor, then known as WESTBURY
SEYMOUR, passed to his nephew Alexander. (fn. 8)
In 1621 this Alexander, his wife, his father, and
representatives of Elizabeth and Robert Webbe
conveyed the manor to Sir James Ley, who thus
became possessed of the whole manor of Westbury. (fn. 9)
Sir James's son Henry, Earl of Marlborough,
died in 1638 and his widow married Thomas Wanklin, who compounded for his life interest in the
manor in 1651. (fn. 10) Henry's son James, Earl of Marlborough (d. 1665) sold the manor in 1639–40 to
Henry, Earl of Danby (d. 1644). (fn. 11) On the death of
Danby, Westbury apparently passed to his brother
Sir John Danvers, the regicide, who in 1651 was
receiving the profits of the hundred. (fn. 12) Danvers died
in 1655 and his heirs were his two daughters, Elizabeth, wife of Robert Villiers, who assumed the name
Danvers, and Anne, wife of Sir Henry Lee. Anne
and Henry Lee had two daughters, Eleanor, wife
of James, Lord Norris, and Anne, wife of Thomas
Wharton (cr. Marquess of Wharton and Malmesbury 1714–15). (fn. 13) In 1670 a moiety of the manor
was settled on Robert and Elizabeth Danvers. (fn. 14)
Robert died c. 1675, and his widow, who assumed
the title Viscountess Purbeck, married John
Duvale. In 1681 they conveyed their share in the
manor to James, Lord Norris, (fn. 15) who had married
Eleanor, a daughter of Anne and Henry Lee. By a
conveyance of the same date the share belonging to
Anne and Thomas Wharton was apparently sold
to James and Eleanor Norris, (fn. 16) and in 1689 the
whole manor was settled on them. (fn. 17) James was
created Earl of Abingdon in 1682, (fn. 18) and Westbury
descended with the title until 1777 when a large
part of it was advertised for sale. (fn. 19) The Abingdon
lands were then sold in parts at sales held
in 1788, 1790, 1797, 1799, and 1808. (fn. 20) In 1810
the manorial rights were sold to Sir Manasseh
Massey Lopes, bt. (fn. 21) The manor then passed with
this title until c. 1904 when Sir Massey Lopes conveyed it to his nephew Henry Ludlow Lopes, Baron
Ludlow of Heywood (d. 1922). (fn. 22) In 1920 the lordship of the hundred and manor of Westbury were
sold to Mr. Frank Parsons, of Westbury. It was said
to be worth £3 a year. (fn. 23)
Until 1361 the estate which became the manor
of BROOK formed part of the capital manor of
Westbury. In 1216 when Ralph de Beauchamp
had the wardship of Walter Pavely this property
was described as Westbury and Brook, (fn. 24) and in
1256 Brook was named as one of the five estates,
or townships, which composed Walter Pavely's
manor of Westbury. (fn. 25) Brook was possibly the
principal residence of the Pavely family in the 14th
century, for Reynold Pavely is styled 'of Brook'. (fn. 26)
Brook was assigned to John St. Lo for his three
daughters on the death of Sir John Pavely in 1361, (fn. 27)
but on the second partition of Sir John's estates in
1368 the manor was allotted to his daughter Joan,
wife of Ralph Cheyney. (fn. 28) Sir Ralph Cheyney died
in 1400 holding the manor in right of his wife, and
in 1402 (fn. 29) his son, Sir William Cheyney, settled it
upon himself and his wife Cecily. (fn. 30) Cecily outlived
her husband and their eldest son, Edmund, who
had married Alice, daughter and coheir of Sir
Humphrey Stafford of Southwick (d. 1442), (fn. 31) and
on Cecily's death in 1430–1 her heirs were the three
daughters of Edmund, Elizabeth, Cecily, and
Anne. (fn. 32) The younger Cecily died shortly after her
grandmother, (fn. 33) and the manor was eventually
assigned to Anne, who married Sir John Willoughby. (fn. 34) In 1461 a general pardon was granted to Sir
John, who was presumably a Lancastrian, for all
offences and all forfeitures of lands. (fn. 35) His son Robert
also forfeited his lands for his adherence to the
Lancastrian cause, and in 1485 Brook was granted
to Edward Ratcliffe for his services against the
rebels. (fn. 36) Robert Willoughby's estates were restored
to him by Henry VII, under whom he held high
office, including those of lord steward and admiral
of the fleet, and by whom he was created in 1491
Baron Willoughby de Broke. (fn. 37) Brook was presumably the chief residence of Lord Willoughby de
Broke and, according to Leland, he rebuilt the
house there. On his death in 1502 the manor
passed to his son, Robert. (fn. 38) Robert died in 1521
leaving no son, and Brook was settled upon his
daughters by his second wife, Dorothy Grey. They
were Anne, later wife of Charles Blount, Lord
Mountjoy (d. 1544), and Elizabeth, later wife of
John Paulet, Marquess of Winchester (d. 1576). (fn. 39)
A claim to the manor by Sir Anthony Willoughby
of Goreley (Hants) was unsuccessful and in 1542
Anthony released his claim to Charles Blount and
John Paulet. (fn. 40) Charles Blount, Lord Mountjoy,
died in 1544. (fn. 41) His wife, Anne, then married
Richard Broke, (fn. 42) and after his death she apparently
married Sir John Bonham, (fn. 43) for in 1574 as Anne
Bonham, widow, she alienated her life interest in
her moiety of the manor to John Pavy and John
Goldwell. (fn. 44) In 1596–7 Lord Mountjoy (d. 1606),
grandson of Anne, and William, Marquess of Winchester (d. 1598), son and heir of Elizabeth Paulet,
obtained permission by Act of Parliament to divide
the property which had come to them from Robert
Willoughby, and Brook was allotted to Lord
Mountjoy. (fn. 45) On the death of Anne Bonham in
1582 (fn. 46) the park at Brook had been disparked and
made into several grounds and portions. (fn. 47) Closes
called Rush Lanes, Oxen Leaze, and Bushy Leaze,
comprising 45 a., were conveyed in 1599 by Lord
Mountjoy to Sir James Ley and thereafter descended as the capital manor. (fn. 48) Another part of the
manor was conveyed in 1599 by Lord Mountjoy to
Sir Edward Hungerford, (fn. 49) and at Sir Edward's
death in 1607 this estate was called the manor of
Brook. (fn. 50) The exact extent of the estate is not known,
but it seems to have excluded Brook House and
included Brook Farm, 'Storadge and Dowesfield',
three fulling mills, a grain mill, and Brook Marsh, as
well as land and common of pasture in the surrounding hamlets and townships. (fn. 51) It passed in
the Hungerford family until 1684 when Sir Edward
Hungerford sold it, apparently with the exception
of Storridge Pastures, to Sir Stephen Fox. Between
1692 and 1698 Sir Stephen's son, Charles, conveyed
it to Robert, Lord Lexinton. From Lord Lexinton
it passed in c. 1718 to Sir Edward Desbouverie
and descended in the Bouverie family of Longford
Castle. In 1785 Jacob Pleydell-Bouverie, Earl of
Radnor, sold much of the property to Gaisford
Gibbs and John Gawen. (fn. 52) The same year Brook
Farm was conveyed to Thomas Phipps of Chalford
(d. 1792), who was already lessee of Brook Mill,
a grist and fulling mill. (fn. 53) In 1794 Phipps's executors
sold the Brook Farm estate, comprising some 150 a.,
to William Aldridge Ballard of Bratton. (fn. 54) After
Ballard's death Brook Farm was sold in 1803 by
his executors to Thomas Henry Hele Phipps of
Leighton House (d. 1841). (fn. 55)
Storridge Pastures (see above), comprising 160 a.,
passed in 1688 from Sir Edward Hungerford to
John Hall of Bradford, (fn. 56) and descended with Hall's
other Wiltshire estates to the Duke of Kingston. (fn. 57)
In about 1745 Evelyn, Duke of Kingston, sold the
estate to Thomas Phipps (d. 1792), who on the
marriage of his son, Thomas Hele Phipps (d. 1790),
with Penelope Clutterbuck in 1788 made over the
property as part of her marriage settlement. On
Penelope's death in 1830 Storridge Pastures passed
to her son Thomas Henry Hele Phipps of Leighton
House (d. 1841). (fn. 58)
In 1599 Brook House with some land adjoining
was sold by Lord Mountjoy to William Jones of
Edington. (fn. 59) The estate comprised some 280 a. at this
time, of which 58 a. were leased to Peter Polden,
and 63 a. to Sir James Ley. (fn. 60) William was succeeded by his son Sefton Jones, (fn. 61) whose granddaughters Anne, wife of Peter Whatley of London,
and Elizabeth, wife of Henry Long, styled of Brook,
sold the estate in 1651 to Nicholas Greene of Brook,
who already had a life interest in the estate by his
marriage with the widow of Sefton Jones. (fn. 62) Part of
the estate was settled in 1662 by Nicholas Greene
upon his son, another Nicholas. Nicholas the younger died c. 1688 and his son, Richard Greene, sold
the house and estate in 1689 to Edward Lisle of
the Middle Temple, London. From Lisle it was
purchased in 1693 by Stephen Blatch of Westbury.
Blatch died childless and left Brook House by his
will dated 1718 to his brother John Blatch. From
John Blatch it passed to Richard Tuck of Rowdford whose mother was an aunt of the brothers
Stephen and John Blatch. In 1758, after the death
of Richard Tuck, the house, together with the
adjoining Lodgewood Farm, was sold to Henry
Hele, of Salisbury. Hele's daughter and heir, Jane,
brought the house into the Phipps family on her
marriage to Thomas Phipps of Chalford and after
his death in 1792 it passed to her grandson Thomas
Henry Hele Phipps (d. 1841), who also acquired
the Brook Farm estate in 1803 and Storridge
Pastures in 1830. (fn. 63)
When Leland visited Brook House in c. 1541
part of a much older manor house was still to be
seen, but the main building was that newly erected,
according to him, by the 1st Lord Willoughby de
Broke (d. 1502). The windows, Leland remarked,
were full of rudders, which he suggested were
Lord Willoughby de Broke's badge as admiral of
the fleet. (fn. 64) The park he described as fair, although
not large, and with a great number of fine-grained
oaks. (fn. 65) Aubrey, writing just over a hundred years
later, described the house as very large and stately.
The hall, which was large and open at that time,
contained, according to him, very old windows
with the coat of arms of the Pavelys. Other shields
of arms were then to be seen in windows in the
'canopie chamber', the dining room, the parlour,
and the chapel. Aubrey also records a tradition
that Edward III was at Brook, and that a bridge
there, called Kingbridge, was built at the time. (fn. 66)
In 1872 it was said that only one wing survived of
the 'newly erected' house which Leland saw. (fn. 67)
In 1960 this wing, which may well have been
built in the late 15th century by Lord Willoughby
de Broke (d. 1502), as suggested by Leland, was
used as a farm building and formed one side of a
farmyard. It is a two-storied structure of 7 bays
with stone-rubble walls with freestone dressings.
The west gable-end and south side have stepped
buttresses. On the south side there are 3 moulded
stone doorways with arched heads and several
two-light windows with uncusped arched lights.
The range was always two-storied and the upper
floor consisted of at least 3 rooms, each of which
had an external door in the north wall. The central
room has a blocked stone fireplace. The open roof
of the wing is of the arch-braced collarbeam type
with 3 tiers of wind braces. At right angles to this
wing, at its east end, a farmhouse was built in the
17th century, probably soon after Aubrey's visit
(see above). It is built of stone-rubble with mullioned and transomed windows, and has a steeply
pitched roof covered with stone slates. Early-19thcentury Gothic windows have been inserted in its
east front. The medieval hall, part of which Leland
saw, was probably demolished at the time of the
building of the farmhouse, but at the junction of
the house with the late-15th-century wing, a short
length of steeply pitched roof may have formed
part of this earlier hall. A fire at this point in 1958
has destroyed the old roof timbers. (fn. 68)
The 4½ hides held by William Scudet in Westbury
in 1086 possibly lay partly in Dilton and partly in
Bratton. (fn. 69) It was probably this estate, then comprising 4 carucates, which in 1210–12 William
Dauntsey held in chief, in Bratton and Dilton by
the serjeanty of keeping the king's larder. (fn. 70) William
died c. 1221 and was succeeded by his son Richard, (fn. 71)
who held 4½ hides in Bratton and Dilton in 1236
and 1242 in chief by service in the king's army. (fn. 72)
By 1250 Richard Dauntsey had alienated a number
of holdings in Bratton and Dilton to various persons, (fn. 73) but on his death that year 4 carucates in
those places passed to his heir, Richard, aged
twelve. (fn. 74) Richard (II) died c. 1266 and the wardship
of his heir, Giles, was granted to William de Aete. (fn. 75)
In 1288–9 the manor of DILTON was in the possession of Richard Dauntsey (III), (fn. 76) possibly a
brother of Giles, and identical with the Richard,
son of Richard Dauntsey, who died in 1315 holding
the manor of Dilton. (fn. 77) This he held by the service
of ½ knight's fee, and the payment of 10 marks
annually to the castle guard of Old Salisbury.
Richard (III)'s son, Richard (IV), died holding the
manors of Bratton and Dilton in 1348 and was
succeeded by his grandson, John Dauntsey. (fn. 78) On
John's death in 1355 the manor, at this time called
of Dilton only, together with one carucate in
Bratton, passed to his brother William, (fn. 79) and
William appears to have been succeeded before
1362 by another brother Walter. (fn. 80) Walter died
seised of the manor of Dilton in 1369, leaving as his
heirs his sister, Margaret, wife of Sir Ralph
Norton, and his nephew John St. Manifee, son of
his sister Joan. (fn. 81) St. Manifee conveyed his share
in the manor to trustees for Sir Ralph and Margaret. (fn. 82) Maud, wife of Thomas de Cantesangre, and
presumably widow of Walter Dauntsey, held a life
interest in a third of each share. (fn. 83) In 1380 the entire
manor was conveyed to the Rector and Bonhommes
of Edington. (fn. 84) In the following year the rector regranted to Sir Ralph Norton and Margaret and
their issue their share in the manor with reversion
to Edington. (fn. 85) Margaret died childless in 1388 and
the manor thus reverted to the Bonhommes, and
formed part of the property of that community
until the Dissolution. (fn. 86)
In 1540 the manor was granted to John
Bush, probably brother of Paul Bush, the last
Rector of Edington. (fn. 87) John's son, another John,
mortgaged it in 1566 for £500 to Jerome
Hawley, who ten years later entered into
possession. (fn. 88) Hawley then sold the manor in 1587
to Sir Walter Hungerford. (fn. 89) It descended in the
Hungerford family until 1684 when Sir Edward
Hungerford sold it to Sir Stephen Fox. (fn. 90) In 1689
Fox conveyed it to two persons, (fn. 91) presumably
trustees for Thomas Phipps and Bridget his wife,
who were in possession of the manor in 1693. (fn. 92)
Thomas Phipps died c. 1715 and in 1721–2 his
son, also called Thomas (d. 1724), conveyed the
manor to Paul Phipps of Chalford (d. 1722), and
to Paul's sons John (d. 1739), and Thomas (d. 1747). (fn. 93)
It passed from Paul's son Thomas (d. 1747) to his
son, another Thomas, who devised it in 1792 to
his younger grandson, Charles Lewis Phipps. (fn. 94)
Charles Lewis Phipps styled himself of Dilton
Court after the house which he built on the estate. (fn. 95)
From Charles Lewis, who died without issue in
1862, the estate passed to his nephew Paul Phipps. (fn. 96)
Paul Phipps sold it to a cousin, Charles Paul Phipps,
who also acquired Chalcot House and died in 1880. (fn. 97)
From then on the Dilton Court estate followed the
same descent as Chalcot House which became the
residence of this branch of the Phipps family.
Dilton Court later came to be called Chalcot Home
Farm. (fn. 98)
The manor of the RECTORY of Westbury, sometimes called the Parsonage or Chantry manor,
comprised in 1086 1½ hide of land held by the
church of Westbury. (fn. 99) Henry I gave the church
to Salisbury Cathedral and it came to be appropriated to the office of precentor. (fn. 1) A virgate of land
which had belonged to Richard Dauntsey was
added to the manor in the 13th century. (fn. 2) Apart
from a sale by the Parliamentary trustees in 1652, (fn. 3)
the manor was held by the precentors until 1842
when, on the death of the then precentor, it passed
under the Cathedrals and Ecclesiastical Commissioners Act (1840–1) to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. (fn. 4) Authority for the sale of the property was
given in 1863, (fn. 5) and the bulk of it was sold in 1899
to Lord Ludlow of Heywood (d. 1922). (fn. 6)
In 1574 William Benett, nephew of Thomas
Benett, Precentor of Salisbury (d. 1558), bequeathed
the lease of the rectory manor, which he had
presumably obtained from his uncle, to his son,
Thomas Benett. (fn. 7) Thomas died without issue in
1605, and the lease probably passed to his brother,
William Benett of Norton Bavant. It was renewed
to William's son, Thomas, in 1641, (fn. 8) and descended
in the same way as Norton Bavant to William
Benett who died without issue in 1781. (fn. 9) The Benetts'
connexion with the manor then ceased and it was
leased until the end of the 18th century by William
Parry. (fn. 10) In 1800 the lessees were Richard White, of
London, and John Gale, of Stert. (fn. 11) White also
leased the manor of Westbury Priory. (fn. 12) In 1851
Richard White was replaced by William White
and from this date until 1874 the Rectory Manor
was leased by William White in partnership with
two or three other lessees, who sub-let the property
to 'persons resident in the tithing of chantry'. (fn. 13)
The farmhouse and buildings of the rectory
manor lay just south of Westbury Church within
the tithing of Chantry. Much of the land of the
manor lay in Bratton. (fn. 14) In 1614 besides the 'mansion house' there were three pastures called Chantry
Lease (26 a.), a pasture called Parson's Croft (6 a.),
and 45 a. in the common fields. There were also
numerous other parcels of land all let out, including 28 a. in the arable fields of Bratton. (fn. 15) In 1642 the
estate was described as the 'manor of Westbury be
longing to the Rector', and included the Parsonage
House with Bittumes Close, the Chantry Leases,
Parsonage Croft, and a cottage adjoining the church
house. (fn. 16)
William Defuble gave 10 out of the 30 librates of
land in Westbury which he received from the
Empress Maud to the priory of Notre-Dame du
Pré (dép. Seine-Inférieur). (fn. 17) The grant was confirmed by Henry II. (fn. 18) When Defuble's property
was regranted by Henry to Joce de Dinan it must
have included the overlordship of the priory's
property, for in 1242–3 Walter Plucknet and Fulk
FitzWarin, to whom Defuble's property had
descended, (fn. 19) were the chief lords under the king. (fn. 20)
Nothing more of their overlordship is known.
The estate was known as the manor of WESTBURY PRIORY. Notre-Dame du Pré was one of
the French priories dependent in certain respects
upon the abbey of Bec (dép. Eure), (fn. 21) so that the
½ hide said to be held in Westbury by Bec in 1193–4
refers to the same holding. (fn. 22) In 1238 Thomas of
Clopton conveyed 5 a. in Westbury to the Prior of
Pré. (fn. 23) In 1242–3 the priory of Steventon (Berks.),
an English cell of Bec, assigned to the maintenance
of the monks of Pré, (fn. 24) held the land in Westbury. (fn. 25)
A final grant of land in Westbury to Bec was
made in 1248 when Henry III granted ½ a. of
assart in Selwood Forest. This had been assarted at
the instigation of William de Guineville, the Prior
of Ogbourne, the representative of the Abbot of
Bec in England. (fn. 26)
In 1389 the prior and convent of Le Pré conveyed to Hugh de Calvyley the holding in Westbury, then called 'a manor' and described as 'parcel
of the possessions of their priory of Steventon'. (fn. 27)
The grant was confirmed by the Abbot of Bec and
royal licence for the transaction was subsequently
obtained. (fn. 28) Hugh de Calvyley conveyed the manor
to Thomas Chalumley and others, who after
Hugh's death, granted it in 1394 to John Waltham,
Bishop of Salisbury, and Roger Walden. (fn. 29) Roger
Walden, consecrated Archbishop of Canterbury
in 1398, survived Waltham and sold the manor in
1399 to the king. (fn. 30) In the same year it was granted
by the king to Westminster Abbey with the same
liberties, including the return of royal writs, which
the abbey enjoyed on its other estates. (fn. 31) In 1400
John de Calvyley, as guardian of David de Calvyley,
heir of Hugh de Calvyley, claimed the estate then
described as a member of the manor of Steventon. (fn. 32)
The claim was unsuccessful and the Abbot of
Westminster obtained an exemplification of the
grant from Archbishop Walden to the king, and
the abbey remained in possession. (fn. 33)
After the Dissolution the manor was granted in
1542 with the former abbey's other possessions
to the newly created Dean and Chapter of Westminster. (fn. 34) During the Interregnum the manor was
sold by trustees in 1649 to John Sibley and John
West, (fn. 35) but it was returned to the chapter at the
Restoration and remained part of its property until
1869 when it was transferred to the Ecclesiastical
Commissioners. (fn. 36) The estate was then disposed of
bit by bit by the commissioners, the bulk of it being
sold in 1899 to Lord Ludlow of Heywood (d.
1922). (fn. 37)
In 1522–3 the manor was leased to William
Lovell, and later to John Whitaker, but in 1551
the chapter made another lease to Jerome Reynolds,
causing considerable friction between the lessees. (fn. 38)
In 1640 the manor was leased to William Wheler
of Westbury Leigh (fn. 39) and it continued to be leased
by members of the Wheler family until c. 1776. (fn. 40)
In 1778 Edward Moore held the manor court as
lord of the manor, and from 1792–1810 the courts
were held by Peter and Stephen Moore. (fn. 41) Between
1810 and c. 1848 the manor was leased to Richard
White, of London, and from c. 1848 until 1862 it
was leased to William White. (fn. 42)
The lands of this manor lay scattered all over
the area of the ancient parish. (fn. 43) In 1840 the demesne
lands, which lay north of Leigh Road near its
junction with Warminster Road, (fn. 44) comprised some
29 a. The rest of the manor, totalling just under
200 a., was made up of copyhold lands. (fn. 45) On the
demesne land there was a barn built of stone in
which the manorial courts were held. In 1840 this
had recently replaced an old building which had
fallen into decay. (fn. 46)
The 30 librates of land granted by the Empress
Maud to William Defuble (fn. 47) must have passed into
the hands of Henry II, who granted land, still
reckoned at 30 librates in 1274, to Joce de Dinan. (fn. 48)
Joce died c. 1166 leaving two daughters. One,
Sybil, married Hugh Plucknet, and received a
half share of the inheritance. (fn. 49) Of this, five librates
already formed half of the manor of Westbury
Priory. (fn. 50) The remainder had been subinfeudated
to the Pavely family, lords of the capital manor,
by 1210–12, when it was held by Ralph de Beauchamp, who had the wardship of the heir. (fn. 51) In
1242–3 it was held as ½ fee by Walter Pavely of
William Plucknet. (fn. 52) In 1280 Reynold Pavely held
the land of Jocelin Plucknet and it was said to be
worth £10. (fn. 53) No more is heard of the Plucknet
overlordship, and the land was probably merged
into the Pavely inheritance. (fn. 54)
Hawise, Joce de Dinan's other daughter, married
Fulk FitzWarin ( d. c. 1198). Her share of the inheritance also included the overlordship of half the
manor of Westbury Priory. She was still living in
1226; (fn. 55) before her death she is said to have given
the part of Westbury which she held herself to her
son Fulk. By c. 1219 he had given the land which his
mother gave him to his brother Eudo, who soon
after gave it to their sister Eugenia. She married
William Mauduit, lord of Warminster c. 1244–64, (fn. 56)
and took her Westbury property into that family,
from which it was called the manor of WESTBURY
MAUDUITS. A grant of free warren in his
demesne lands made in 1317 to Thomas Mauduit
described these as lying in Westbury, Westbury
Leigh, and Chalcot. (fn. 57) In 1562 Chalcot alone was
described as a manor. (fn. 58) But no evidence of any independent manorial organization has been found
and Chalcot was probably only a part of the
Mauduit lands in Westbury.
These lands followed the same descent as Warminster (fn. 59) until 1585 when George Tuchet, Lord
Audley (d. 1617), sold them to the brothers Henry
and Nicholas Phipps. (fn. 60) Henry and Nicholas
apparently conveyed some part of the property to
Sir James Ley (cr. Earl of Marlborough 1626), and
this became annexed to the earl's manor of Brook
under the name of Westbury Brook cum Mauduits. (fn. 61) Henry and Nicholas also added to their
estate by the purchase in 1599 of a fulling mill at
Westbury Leigh from Charles, Lord Mountjoy
(d. 1606), (fn. 62) and by lands bought at an unknown
date from Thomas Saunders. (fn. 63) Henry Phipps died
in 1600 leaving his house at Westbury, his mill at
Chalford, and his new house at the 'sheep-washing'
at Chalford to his nephew Henry, son of Nicholas,
with remainder to Nicholas in default of male
issue of Henry. (fn. 64) Nicholas Phipps died in 1615
seised of the manor of Westbury Mauduits, (fn. 65) which
presumably represented the bulk of the property
he and his brother had acquired from Lord Tuchet
(see above). Livery of this manor was made to
Nicholas's son Henry in 1618. (fn. 66)
Henry Phipps, the younger, died in 1620 leaving
an infant daughter Christine who later married
William Bishop of Mere. (fn. 67) In 1639–40 livery of the
manor of Westbury Mauduits was made to Christine
and her husband and to Margaret Phipps, Christine's sister. (fn. 68) In the same year these three with
Christine, widow of Henry Phipps, sold the manor
to John and Edward Ash. (fn. 69) It seems to have remained in the Ash family (fn. 70) until sold by them to
Zachary Bayly, a West India merchant, who
owned it in 1689 and 1713. (fn. 71) It passed from
Zachary to his son, another Zachary, who sold it
to his nephew Bryan Edwards, author of the
History of the British Colonies in the West Indies,
who married Maria, daughter of Thomas Phipps
of Leighton House (d. 1792). (fn. 72) Before his death in
1800 Edwards sold the estate to his younger brother,
Zachary Bayly Edwards, who also died in 1800,
and was succeeded by his son another Bryan
Edwards. (fn. 73) The estate was bought from Edwards
some time after 1842 (fn. 74) by Charles Paul Phipps
(d. 1880), who was the first member of the Phipps
family to be styled of Chalcot and Dilton Court. (fn. 75)
From Charles Paul the Chalcot estate passed to his
son Charles Nicholas Paul Phipps (d. 1913), and
from him to his son Charles Bathurst Hele Phipps
(d. 1960). (fn. 76)
Chalcot House is a mid-18th-century building
of 3 stories on the site of an earlier one, which
Hoare suggests may have been the manor house
of the manor of Westbury Mauduits. (fn. 77) Extensive
alterations were made in 1870, leaving only the
south-east front unaltered. This front has 5 bays
with pilasters flanking the windows. The first,
central, and fifth bays have panels with swag
ornaments. A central niche on the first floor contains a large urn.
The property at Chalford and Westbury, which
Henry Phipps (d. 1600) devised to his nephew
Henry (see above) passed on the death of the
younger Henry in 1620 without male issue to a
younger brother. (fn. 78) Paul Phipps (d. 1722), a descendant of this brother, added largely to the property which lay mostly in Chalford and Westbury
Leigh. (fn. 79) He probably did not, however, occupy
Leigh House, which at this date was leased from
the Earl of Abingdon, lord of the manor of Westbury, by Thomas Phipps of Heywood. (fn. 80) Thomas
Phipps of Heywood died in 1724 without issue and
the lease was assigned to John Phipps (d. 1739)
eldest son of the above Paul of Chalford and Westbury Leigh. (fn. 81) The house continued to be leased by
members of this branch of the family until 1791
when it was bought by Thomas Phipps (d. 1792),
grandson of Paul, from the Earl of Abingdon. (fn. 82)
By 1773 there was, besides Leigh House, another
house in Leighton Park to the north of the road
which cut the park in two and apparently somewhat to the west of the present Leighton House.
That year Leigh House was apparently occupied by
Thomas Phipps, and the one to the north by his
brother Paul. (fn. 83) Paul died in 1785 and Thomas in
1792, and the Leighton estate, to which Thomas
had added much property, (fn. 84) descended to Thomas's
grandson. This was Thomas Henry Hele Phipps,
who abandoned Leigh House for a new one which
he built in 1800 in the northern part of the park. (fn. 85)
Thomas Henry Hele Phipps died in 1841 and was
succeeded by his son of the same name. This
Thomas Henry Hele Phipps died in 1847 leaving
a son Thomas Henry Leckonby Phipps who died
without issue. His uncle, John Lewis Phipps, succeeded to the estate and died in 1870. Richard
Leckonby Hothersall Phipps, son and heir of John
Lewis, sold the house and estate in 1888 to William
Henry Laverton (d. 1925). (fn. 86) In 1911 some 1,700 a.
of the estate including Storridge, Brook House,
Hawkeridge, and Lodge Wood farms were sold in
lots, (fn. 87) and in 1921 Laverton sold the rest of the
estate, including Leighton House, Madbrook,
Beresmere, and Skye or Hill farms. (fn. 88) Leighton
House was sold to the proprietors of a school for
boys called Victoria College. (fn. 89) The school closed in
1936 (fn. 90) and about three years later the property was
taken over by the War Department. Since then it
has been the headquarters of the Permanent Commissions Board.
Leighton House as built in 1800 by Thomas
Henry Hele Phipps comprised 3 stories and 5 bays.
It was built of stone ashlar and had a central Roman
Doric porch. In 1888 the house was bought by
William Henry Laverton and was altered and extended in the taste of that time. A wing was added
to the east, a conservatory to the west, and a billiard
room to the north. The interior was remodelled
and completely redecorated. The architect for these
alterations was Frank Willis of Bristol. (fn. 91) A threesided stable block approached by a bridge over the
Warminster road dates from c. 1800. A coat of arms
and a bell cupola, which form the central features,
were added in the late 19th century. Nearby is an
avenue of araucaria trees. William Henry Laverton
also built a private theatre in the park and made a
cricket pitch there.
In 1274 it was said that the land given by the Empress Maud to William Defuble amounted to 30
librates. (fn. 92) The descent of these has been described
above; 10 formed the holding of the Prior of Le
Pré and 10 that of the Mauduit family, and the
remaining 10 seem to have been merged into the
capital manor. (fn. 93) It appears, however, that Defuble's
holding was larger than the 30 librates assigned to
it in 1274, and in 1210–12 it was definitely said to
amount to 50 librates. Of this, part was clearly the
land held by the heirs of Joce de Dinan, to whom
Defuble's land had been regranted by Henry II.
The remainder, presumably 20 librates, was held
by Ralph de Lanvaley and William de Lanvaley. (fn. 94)
This family was associated with a holding of Joce
de Dinan at Lambourn (Berks.) (fn. 95) and he may have
given land at Westbury to it before his death. The
first member of the family certainly holding land
here was Thomas de Lanvaley, whose estate at
Leigh was in the hands of the sheriff in 1190. (fn. 96)
His relationship to the later members of the family
is not known, but he evidently was related to the
family that held land at Lambourn, and the
honor of Walkern (Herts.). William de Lanvaley of
that family died c. 1215, leaving a daughter and heir
Hawise, who married John de Burgh (d. 1275). (fn. 97)
He was overlord of land at Westbury in 1274, (fn. 98)
the last time the overlordship of the Lanvaley
estates is mentioned.
The fragmentation of those estates by subinfeudation began in 1204 with the gift of land at Leigh
from Ralph de Lanvaley to the priory of Monkton
Farleigh, in return for a life pension of 2 marks. (fn. 99)
This formed the largest part of the manor of
LEIGH PRIORS. In 1242–3 it was said to be held
in chief, (fn. 1) and in 1274 it was reckoned at ½ fee. (fn. 2)
Subsequent acquisitions show the priory following a policy of augmenting and consolidating its
property in Westbury Leigh. In 1226 Henry III
confirmed among the other possessions of the house
in Westbury, half the vill of Westbury Leigh and a
tenement (mansura) there. (fn. 3) In 1249 the prior exchanged with William and Eve Mauduit the wood
of Holt for 15 a. in Westbury Leigh next to the
wood which Walter of Brookway held. (fn. 4) Another
exchange was made by the prior in 1285 with
Stephen the tanner of land in 'Buricrofta' and
'Cumputte' in Westbury Leigh for other land in the
same place. (fn. 5) More land was acquired in Leigh and
Westbury in 1320–1 by an exchange with Walter
Pavely. (fn. 6) In 1294 the Westbury Leigh estate along
with the priory's other possessions was temporarily
taken into the king's hands. (fn. 7) In 1331 the manor was
leased to John Bradford, parson of the church at
Bishopstrow, and Thomas de Croume for their
lives. In 1368 licence was granted for John Mareys
and Thomas Jordan to grant some 50 a., which
they held of the Prior of Farleigh in Westbury
Leigh, to the Bonhommes of Edington. (fn. 8) The
manor, then leased out, was among the property of
Monkton Farleigh when the priory was dissolved in
1536. (fn. 9)
In 1545 the manor, with its capital messuage,
and the lands leased with it to John Whatley, Leigh
Common, and all appurtenances were conveyed to
John Adlam, clothier, of Westbury, who also
received other rents due to the priory from lands
in Westbury. (fn. 10) John died seised of the manor in the
same year leaving as his heirs his daughters Edith,
wife of John Lambe, and Alice, wife of Robert
Cogswell. (fn. 11) Edith married secondly John Westwell,
who, after Edith's death in 1577, held the manor
for life. (fn. 12) It then passed to John Lambe, Edith's
son by her first marriage. (fn. 13) John Lambe died in 1615
holding half the manor and was succeeded by his
son, John. (fn. 14) This John sold his half of the manor to
Sir James Ley (cr. Earl of Marlborough 1626) in
1615. (fn. 15) The other half, which passed on the death
of Alice Cogswell in 1606 to her grandson, Roger, (fn. 16)
had been sold by him to Sir James Ley in 1611. (fn. 17)
Ley thus acquired the entire manor of Leigh Priors,
which thenceforth followed the same descent as
the capital manor.
The half of the township of Leigh which remained
after the grant to the priory of Monkton Farleigh
in 1204 was by 1242–3 divided into two parts, each
reckoned at 1/6 fee. (fn. 18) Robert de Maners held one
directly of the heirs of William de Lanvaley, but
the other had been three times subinfeudated, and
was held by Eve de Bassingburn of Eve de Tracy of
Fulk FitzWarin of the heirs of de Lanvaley. (fn. 19) Eve
de Bassingburn had acquired her part of Eve de
Tracy in 1241. (fn. 20) By 1274 the two parts had been
united, for John de Maners held ¼ fee directly of
the tenant-in-chief. (fn. 21) John probably subinfeudated
it before the Statute of 1290. By 1316 it was held
by John Rous; (fn. 22) at his death in 1330 Rous was said
to hold it jointly with his wife Ela of Robert de
Maners by the gift of John of Lavington. (fn. 23) It descended in the Rous family in the same way as the
manor of Baynton in Edington (fn. 24) to John Rous, who
was holding it in 1412. (fn. 25)
The descent of this estate during the next 50
years cannot be traced. By 1464 it had passed to
Robert and Agnes Leversage, for that year they
were sued by the Chaplain of Baynton for a rent
of 40s., (fn. 26) which Richard Rous had granted him from
his land in Leigh. (fn. 27) Agnes was the daughter of
William of Westbury (d. 1482) and among the
estates which went to make up the manor of WESTBURY LEVERSAGE were lands which she inherited from her father in Heywood, Hawkeridge,
and Westbury Leigh. (fn. 28) Agnes's lands passed by a
settlement of 1475 to her heirs Edmund and John
Leversage. (fn. 29) Edmund died seised of the property in
1469 and was succeeded by his nephew, Edmund,
son of William Leversage. (fn. 30) At this date the Leversage estate in Westbury was called the manor of
Heywood and it is not known whether the land
in Westbury Leigh still formed part of it. The
younger Edmund died in 1508 and was succeeded
by his son Robert. (fn. 31) Robert died in 1549 (fn. 32) and was
followed by his son William who died in 1582, at
which date the estate was sometimes called the
manor of Westbury Leversage. (fn. 33) Grace, widow of
William Leversage, married secondly Anthony
Williams, (fn. 34) and in 1612–13 they conveyed the
manor, then called Westbury Heywood, to Sir
James Ley (cr. Earl of Marlborough in 1626). (fn. 35)
From this time the Leversage manor followed the
same descent as the capital manor of Westbury,
with which it became merged. (fn. 36)
The manor of BREMERIDGE is represented in
modern times by Bremeridge Farm lying some
three miles to the south-west of Westbury. The
estate probably originated in the grant to Philip
Marmium by Joce de Dinan (d. c. 1166) of 3 hides
out of the land which the king had granted Joce in
Westbury. (fn. 37) The grant was confirmed to Marmium's son, Roger, by Walter Pavely, by then lord
of the manor of Westbury. (fn. 38) In c. 1276 Philip Marmium, possibly Roger's son, died seised of a virgate
held of Richard Dauntsey in Bratton and Dilton,
12 virgates in the manor of Westbury, of which 6
were held of Reynold Pavely, lord of the capital
manor, and 6 of Thomas Mauduit, lord of the
manor of Westbury Mauduits, 11 librates in Bremeridge, as well as other smaller holdings in Westbury, Brook, and Bremeridge. For all these lands
he seems to have held a single court. (fn. 39) Philip Marmium was succeeded by a grandson, Roger, whose
legitimacy was questioned by his aunt Eve, elder
daughter of Philip Marmium. (fn. 40) This was apparently
of no avail, and Roger added to his holding a wood
called Huddesgrove acquired from John of Leigh, (fn. 41)
and a rent from a tenement in Leigh together with
the advowson of the chantry of Heywood, which
were granted him by Reynold Pavely. (fn. 42) In 1335–6
he settled his entire estate upon himself and his
wife Maud. Roger was succeeded by his grandson,
William, (fn. 43) who in 1350–1 conveyed a messuage and
two carucates of land in Bremeridge to his grand
mother, Maud, and her second husband William
FitzWarin. (fn. 44) This seems to have been a settlement
of the manor upon the heirs of Maud and FitzWarin,
for it passed to Sir Philip FitzWarin of Great
Chalfield, (fn. 45) who in 1366, with his wife Constance,
exchanged Bremeridge with the Bonhommes of
Edington for the manor of Highway. (fn. 46) The manor
of Bremeridge was at this date held of Gillian
Mauduit as of her manor of Westbury by the service
of a knight's fee. (fn. 47) The manor remained among the
possessions of Edington until the dissolution of
that house in 1539. (fn. 48)
In 1541 the manor was leased by the Crown to
Thomas Charde, and in 1543 the reversion after
the expiry of this lease was granted to Charles
Blount, Lord Mountjoy (d. 1544). (fn. 49) James Blount,
Lord Mountjoy (d. 1581), son of Charles Blount,
conveyed it in 1574 to the queen. (fn. 50) In 1609–10
James I sold the manor to John Eldred, James
Collymore, and others, (fn. 51) but the sale was apparently
ineffective, for the following year the king sold it
to George and Thomas Whitmore of London. (fn. 52)
George and Thomas Whitmore sold Bremeridge in
1612 to Sir James Ley (cr. Earl of Marlborough
1626), (fn. 53) and it thus became part of the large estate
in Westbury, which Ley was acquiring during the
first quarter of the 17th century. (fn. 54)
In 1631 Henry Ley, Earl of Marlborough (d.
1638), son of Sir James Ley, and lord of the manor
of Westbury, sold the capital messuage and farm
of Bremeridge with 'Rookesgrove' and 'Knawbone' to Edward Windover, but not, apparently,
the manorial rights which remained with the lords
of the manor of Westbury. (fn. 55) The earl retained
certain hunting rights on the estate, and Windover
was bound to do suit at the court of the manor of
Bremeridge. (fn. 56) No more is known of this estate until
1655 when it was sold by John Stedman to William
Lant. (fn. 57) Lant, a London merchant, died in 1671, and
his widow Anne remarried Sir Edward Bromfield,
and held Bremeridge until her death in 1696. She
was succeeded by her son Thomas Lant, (fn. 58) who
held the farm in 1709, but by 1727 it was the freehold property and residence of John Watts. (fn. 59) After
the death of Watts and his wife it passed to a son
also called John. The Revd. John Watts, son of the
second named John, died unmarried, and the farm
passed to the children of his sister, the Thrings of
Sutton Veny. (fn. 60) They sold the estate in 1825 to
Frederick Seagram of Warminster. In 1830 it was
bound to pay 'lord's rent' to Sir Manasseh Massey
Lopes, lord of the capital manor of Westbury. (fn. 61)
Subsequently the farm passed into the possession
of Charles Paul Phipps of Chalcot House and
Dilton Court (d. 1880). (fn. 62)
The farmhouse dates largely from the 19th
century, but there are indications, such as a 17thcentury doorway, that there may have been an
earlier house on the site. A hoard of gold coins of
the time of Edward III and Richard II was found
buried outside the backdoor in 1877. (fn. 63)
In the 12th century two members of a family
calling themselves of Leigh (de Lya), and thus
presumably holding land there, (fn. 64) were wardens of
Selwood Forest, within which Leigh then lay:
Walter in 1189, and his son, Philip, in 1193–4. (fn. 65)
In 1210–12 Philip of Leigh held land in Westbury
valued at 10s. by the serjeanty of supplying one
archer for the royal service. (fn. 66) Philip died c. 1226
when his son and heir, James, paid homage for
his holding, which he held in chief of the king. (fn. 67)
John of Leigh, possibly son of James, was holding
a virgate in Westbury in 1274–5, (fn. 68) and in 1349–50
John Mauduit conveyed a mill, tenement, and
garden in Leigh to Joan Huggin to hold during the
minority of Thomas, son of John of Leigh. (fn. 69)
The estate in WESTBURY LEIGH descended
in the family of Leigh until the death of Robert
Leigh in 1525–6 when it was divided between his
daughters. (fn. 70) One of these, Margaret Harvey, died
in 1527 (fn. 71) and her son and heir, Nicholas, sold his
share in the manor of Westbury Leigh to Thomas
Webb. (fn. 72) Robert Webb, son of Thomas, sold his
share in the manor to Alexander Staples of Yate
(Glos.), (fn. 73) who died seised of it the same year having
devised it to his younger son Thomas. (fn. 74) In 1631–2
Thomas Staples sold the manor to Humphrey
Lee, (fn. 75) and six years later Lee sold it to William
Wheler. (fn. 76)
From Henry Hussey and Cecily, another daughter of Robert Leigh, part of the manor of Westbury Leigh passed to John Hussey and from him
in 1581 to his son, Thomas Hussey. (fn. 77) In the following year Thomas Hussey sold his half of the
manor to James Powton, (fn. 78) of whom it was purchased
in 1591–2 by Edward and Jeremy Horton. (fn. 79) The
capital messuage of the estate was Ludborne
House. (fn. 80) In 1639–40 the estate was sold by Sir John
Horton, son of Jeremy Horton to William Wheler,
who thus acquired both parts of the manor. (fn. 81) By
his will proved in 1667 Sir William Wheler devised
the manor to his wife Elizabeth with remainder to
George, son of Charles Wheler of Charing (Kent).
George Wheler died in 1723, one year before his
eldest son, and the estate passed first to his second
son Granville Wheler, and on Granville's death in
1770 to Granville's son of the same name. (fn. 82) In
1772 some land within the manor was sold to
Thomas Phipps, (fn. 83) and the rest was sold to Thomas,
Viscount Weymouth. (fn. 84) This descended to the
Marquesses of Bath, and was sold by Lord Bath
sometime between the two world wars. (fn. 85)
Another share in Robert Leigh's manor (see
above) passed to his daughter Anne, wife of William Beckett, and this estate became known as
Leigh Becketts. It belonged in 1558 to Henry
Beckett, (fn. 86) and appears to have descended in the
family until 1612–13 when William Beckett and
his wife Elizabeth sold it to Sir James Ley (cr. Earl
of Marlborough 1626), lord of the capital manor of
Westbury. (fn. 87)
Land in Westbury held by William Burnel had
escheated to the Crown in 1168. (fn. 88) It was probably
another William Burnel who in 1194 paid 2 marks
to have seisin of 1½ hide of land there. (fn. 89) From that
time until at least 1214 he paid a yearly farm for it
to the king. (fn. 90) At first the farm was 30s. but from
1200 he began to pay only 10s. out of the 30s.
charged on him, and from 1207 his farm was reduced to 10s. at the Exchequer. (fn. 91) This was a
belated recognition of the fact that the Prior of
Monkton Farleigh was overlord of 2/3 of Burnel's
fee. He put forward his claim in 1194, (fn. 92) when the
land was first said to lie in PENLEIGH, and by
1199 it had been established that 2/3 of Burnel's
rent should be paid to the prior. (fn. 93) The overlordship of Farleigh is regularly mentioned thereafter, (fn. 94)
and the 20s. rent was still paid at the Dissolution. (fn. 95)
In 1236 William Haket held the land de elemosina
domini regis, paying the rents to the prior and the
king, (fn. 96) but by 1242–3 Eudo Burnel held it by the
same rents. (fn. 97) Eudo was succeeded by his brother
William in c. 1243. (fn. 98) William's heir was William
the chaplain, (fn. 99) and it seems likely that he relinquished his right in Penleigh, for no more is heard
of the Burnel overlordship.
William Burnel had subinfeudated his land
before his death. In 1256 Walter Pavely was holding
land in Penleigh of him by a rent of 10s. (fn. 1) Walter's
son, Reynold, held it in 1274, when it was said to
be ⅓ of the Burnel fee, (fn. 2) but by 1288–9 it was described as ⅓ of Penleigh held directly of the king. (fn. 3)
This land probably became merged into the larger
Pavely estate, and is not heard of again. The other
part of the Burnel fee, held of the monks of Farleigh, was perhaps subinfeudated by 1243, when
Alan FitzWarin seems to have exerted some claim
to part of it. (fn. 4) In 1260 Eudo FitzAlan, presumably
his son, granted the land which Alan had held to
Thomas de Tetteburn and Joan his wife for their
lives. (fn. 5) They still held it in 1274, (fn. 6) but by 1288–9
it had reverted to Peter FitzWarin. (fn. 7) It was held
by William FitzWarin who forfeited it as a rebel
in 1322; (fn. 8) it was soon restored to his widow Joan
and their son William, who were in possession in
1327. (fn. 9)
By 1340 Penleigh had passed to Sir Adam de
Shareshull and Alice his wife, for that year these
two settled it upon themselves and their heirs. (fn. 10)
How it came to them is not clear; Alice may have
been the heir of the FitzWarins. Ten years later
they conveyed it for life to Sir Thomas, son of
Maurice Berkeley, and his wife Katharine, with
remainder to John de Veel and his sister Joan,
children of Katharine by her first husband Sir
Peter de Veel. (fn. 11) John de Veel died without issue
and Katharine's heir was Sir John Moigne, son of
Joan de Veel. (fn. 12) From Sir John Moigne the manor
passed to his daughter, Elizabeth, who married
William Stourton. Their son, John (cr. Baron
Stourton 1448), (fn. 13) died seised of the manor in 1462. (fn. 14)
William Stourton (d. 1477) succeeded his father
and married Margaret, daughter of Sir John Chidiock, and in her right became possessed of part
of the capital manor of Westbury. Penleigh thenceforth followed the same descent as the part of the
capital manor called Westbury Stourton until it was
forfeited in 1557 by Charles, Lord Stourton. (fn. 15) In
1580 Penleigh was granted by Elizabeth I to Lord
Burleigh and others. (fn. 16) This grant was apparently
made with the purpose of restoring it to John,
Lord Stourton, son of Charles, for that year he
conveyed it to the same grantees for a settlement
upon himself and his wife, Frances, and their issue,
with remainder to the heirs of his grandfather,
William, Lord Stourton. (fn. 17) The manor descended
with the title until c. 1704 when Lord Stourton sold
it to George Turner, on whose death it passed
under his will to his widow Martha Turner. (fn. 18)
Martha Turner left it to her nephew, Gilbert
Trowe Beckett, who was in possession in 1791. (fn. 19)
He afterwards assumed the name Turner, and it
passed from him to his brother, the Revd. Thomas
À Beckett Turner, incumbent of Wootton Underwood (Bucks.). (fn. 20) The estate remained in the a
Beckett Turner family until the last decade of the
19th century. (fn. 21) Since the beginning of the 20th
century Penleigh House has had various occupiers.
Penleigh House faces east and consists of two
ranges of different heights. That on the south has
stone mullioned and transomed windows and may
be the older of the two. The other, and higher
range has a two-storied front of 7 bays. This front
has a deep parapet surmounted by four vases and
the roof has a central bell-turret with a weather
cock. In the gable-end is a stone inscribed '1710
G.T.'. The sash windows in this portion of the
house are not the original ones and other alterations,
such as the addition of a central porch, seem to have
been made. The central stone doorway, surmounted
by a broken pediment and a shield of arms, possibly
those of the Turner family, may be original, or
alternatively the stone doorway which now forms
the gateway in the garden wall may have been
transferred from the house. The walls of the house
are cement-rendered giving the appearance of
ashlar, but they were originally wholly or in part
of brick. The house contains two staircases of c.
1710. The principal one is lit by a Venetian window.
A red-brick stable block to the west is of much the
same date as the house, and the farmhouse to the
north is of red brick with stone mullioned and
transomed windows and has the inscription '1716
Ernulf de Mandeville, the disinherited eldest son
of Geoffrey de Mandeville, Earl of Essex, had
received land in Wiltshire by royal grant as early as
1156, and it is quite possible that he had been given
it by the Empress Maud. (fn. 22) He was apparently dead
by 1178, when the sheriff accounted for £3 9s. 9d.
for the farm of his lands for half a year. (fn. 23) Ernulf
was succeeded by his eldest son Geoffrey. (fn. 24) In
1201 and in 1210–12 a Geoffrey de Mandeville,
probably this son, was holding land in BRATTON. (fn. 25)
Either this Geoffrey, or his son of the same name, (fn. 26)
borrowed money from Jews, and the property of the
de Mandevilles in Highworth and Bratton was
seized for payment of the debt. In 1232 the justices
dealing with matters relating to the Jews were
ordered to make reasonable terms for Geoffrey de
Mandeville for debts owed by him to three Jews.
Part of the profits from the two manors was to be
assigned every year for payment of the debts, and
the rest was to provide for the maintenance of
Geoffrey, his wife and children. (fn. 27) In 1236 Geoffrey
de Mandeville held one fee in Bratton and Highworth. (fn. 28) In 1242–3 he held ⅓ knight's fee in
Bratton by castle-guard service to Devizes Castle. (fn. 29)
Geoffrey de Mandeville, grandson of Ernulf, died
in 1246 and was succeeded by his son Ralph. (fn. 30)
Ralph died in 1280 holding 20 librates of land in
Bratton and Highworth of the king in chief. For
this he paid £1 a year to Devizes Castle in time of
peace, and in time of war owed 40 days service
there for himself and a horseman. (fn. 31) Thomas, son
and heir of Ralph, apparently died soon after his
father, for in 1288–9 Amice, widow of Ralph de
Mandeville, and wife of Robert de Saucey, was
holding part of the estate in dower, of the heritage
of Robert de Mandeville. (fn. 32) Robert may have been
a younger brother of Thomas. He appears to have
been succeeded by another Ralph de Mandeville,
for in 1299 William de Mandeville was holding the
inheritance of Ralph his father in Bratton. (fn. 33)
William died in 1333, when the estate passed to his
brother John. (fn. 34) John died c. 1336, and Bratton was
settled on his widow Benedicta. (fn. 35) In 1361 she conveyed her interest in it to the house of Bonhommes
at Edington. (fn. 36) This grant was confirmed in 1362
by Nicholas atte Hoke and Joan his wife, kinswoman
and heir of John de Mandeville, (fn. 37) and in 1372 by
Walter Maryner de Langecote and Isabel his wife, (fn. 38)
possibly another heir of John de Mandeville.
A number of lesser estates in Bratton were also
acquired by the Bonhommes soon after the foundation of the house in 1358. (fn. 39) In 1401 the property
belonging to the community in Bratton and Dilton
was described as ½ knight's fee in Bratton late belonging to Walter Dauntsey. (fn. 40) Bratton continued
to form part of the Edington lands until the Dissolution.
In 1543 Bratton was granted to Sir Thomas
Seymour of Sudeley Castle (Glos.), brother of the
Protector, who had already acquired the bulk of
the Edington property. (fn. 41) After Seymour's execution in 1548–9, (fn. 42) Bratton appears to have remained
with the Crown until 1591 when it was granted by
the queen to Richard Knollis and Richard Swale. (fn. 43)
In the same year these grantees sold it to Sir
Christopher Hatton, the Lord Chancellor. (fn. 44) Sir
Christopher died seised of it in 1591, leaving as his
heir Sir William Newport, son of his sister Dorothy,
who had married Sir John Newport. (fn. 45) Sir William
assumed the name Hatton and in 1595 he and his
wife Elizabeth conveyed the manor with four
watermills to Richard Beconsawe and Francis
Shrimpton. (fn. 46) Four years later in 1599 it passed
from Gerard Fleetwood and Jane his wife to William Lambert. (fn. 47) Shortly after this it passed to
William Paulet, Marquess of Winchester (d.
1628/9), who already held the Bratton Grange or
Farm estate, (fn. 48) and in 1620 Paulet sold it to Sir
James Ley (cr. Earl of Marlborough 1626), (fn. 49) in
whose possession it was at the time of his death in
1629. (fn. 50) The manor then presumably descended for
a time with the capital manor of Westbury but
shortly after the death of James Ley, 3rd Earl of
Marlborough, in 1665, it apparently passed to
William Bromwich, owner of the grange and
farm, for he was admitting tenants on the manor in
1667. (fn. 51) In 1669 Arthur Bromwich sold the manor
to Sir James Thynne, (fn. 52) from whom it eventually
descended to the Marquesses of Bath. Shortly
before the Second World War Lord Bath sold his
estate in Bratton. (fn. 53)
Members of the Whitaker family, who leased
most of the Bratton Grange estate, (fn. 54) were also
leasing lands in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries
on this manor. (fn. 55)
The 'mansion' house of Bratton is described in a
17th-century survey as a good, tiled house consisting
of kitchen, hall, 2 parlours, a pantry, a cellar, brewhouse, and other offices. There was also a tiled barn,
stables, outhouses, gardens, orchards, and a homeclose comprising in all about 4 a. (fn. 56) It is not possible
to identify this house with any in Bratton now.
Grange Farm, in Lower Road, the farmhouse of
Lord Bath's former estate in Bratton, dates from
1739 and later. (fn. 57) .
After the execution of Sir Thomas Seymour, lord
of the manor of Bratton, an estate known as BRATTON GRANGE, or FARM, was conveyed in 1550
to Sir William Paulet (cr. Marquess of Winchester
1551, d. 1571). This estate comprised some 346 a.
of arable and 62 a. of meadow or pasture with lands
called Little Broadmead, Broadmead, Opencrofts,
and Great Opencrofts, and lay in the south of the
parish. (fn. 58) It passed with the Winchester title (fn. 59) until
1600 when William Paulet, Marquess of Winchester
(d. 1628/9), mortgaged the estate for 1,000 years
to mortgagees, who sold the lease to Thomas
Hutchins and William Bower. After the death of
Hutchins in 1607 the reversion was granted by the
marquess to Sefton Bromwich, who probably
redeemed the mortgage. (fn. 60) Sefton Bromwich died
a few months later and was succeeded by his son
William, a minor, to whom livery was made in
1629. (fn. 61) William Bromwich, Rachel, his wife, and
Arthur Bromwich sold the Grange to Sir Walter
Ernley of Etchilhampton. (fn. 62) In 1695 it was settled
upon Anne, widow of Edward Ernley, son of Sir
Walter Ernley, with remainder to her second son
Sir Edward Ernley. (fn. 63) Elizabeth, the only daughter
and heir of Sir Edward Ernley, married Henry Drax
in 1720 and died in 1759. She was succeeded by her
eldest son Thomas Erle Drax, on whose death in
1789 the property passed to his brother Edward.
Sarah Frances Drax, daughter and heir of Edward,
married Richard Grosvenor, who assumed the
name of Erle Drax. (fn. 64) Richard Erle Drax Grosvenor
died in 1819 and his widow in 1822. In 1829 the
whole estate was sold in lots. (fn. 65) The manor house
and a part of the estate were bought by George
Watson-Taylor of Erlestoke Park. (fn. 66) This still
belonged to Watson-Taylor in 1842, (fn. 67) but before
the end of the 19th century it had passed to Charles
Nicholas Paul Phipps. (fn. 68)
In 1815 part of the estate, comprising nearly
1,000 a., and including Lower and Upper Garston,
and Garston Orchard was leased by Richard Erle
Drax Grosvenor to Philip Whitaker. (fn. 69) In 1842 the
same Philip Whitaker occupied the manor house
and another part of the estate was leased to his son,
Joshua Whitaker. (fn. 70) Members of the Whitaker
family continued to farm the estate until well on
into the 20th century. When John Saffery Whitaker
retired in 1913 Grant's Farm, lying on Salisbury
Plain, and the largest farm on the estate, had been
farmed by the Whitaker family for some two
hundred years. (fn. 71)
The manor house of this estate, and still called
the Manor House in 1960, stands at the corner of
Court Lane and the high road to Westbury. It is
partly of the late 17th century and has stone mullioned windows with drip moulds and a stone slated
In the Middle Ages this manor was usually called
GODSWELL. Later it became known as GODSWELL AND CHAPMANSLADE and eventually
as Chapmanslade only. The name Godswell survives in Godswell Grove Farm, a small 19th-century
farmhouse, about ¾ mile north-east of Chapmanslade village. During the 12th and early 13th centuries Stanley Abbey received a number of grants
of land in Godswell and Chapmanslade: land at
Godswell was granted by Hugh Plucknet, one of
the abbey's earliest benefactors; (fn. 72) Walter of Brookway and Peter of Scudamore also granted lands in
the same place; (fn. 73) among the gifts of Hugh of Raden
was pasture for 400 sheep at Godswell; (fn. 74) Philip
Marmium granted land there formerly held by
Edric, and some land once belonging to Bartholomew his father, lying between 'bellus quercus' and
the Brookway; (fn. 75) Thomas de Lanvaley granted 2 a.
of land in Chapmanslade and some land once held
by Alfric Ches; (fn. 76) a holding in Chapmanslade belonging to the Prioress of Studley (Oxon.) was at an
unknown date conveyed to Stanley. (fn. 77)
In 1242–3 the estate belonging to Stanley in
Godswell comprised a carucate held in free alms. (fn. 78)
Licence was granted in 1324 for the manor to be
leased for 20 years. (fn. 79) It remained among the possessions of Stanley Abbey until that house was dissolved in 1536, by which time the manor of Godswell seems to have been annexed to Heywood,
another Stanley Abbey estate. (fn. 80)
After the Dissolution the manor, then described
as Godswell near Chapmanslade, alias Godswell
and Chapmanslade, was granted with Heywood
and most of the rest of the Stanley Abbey property
to Sir Edward Baynton, of Bromham. (fn. 81) Sir Edward
died in 1545 (fn. 82) and the following year his son,
Andrew, conveyed the manor to his brother,
Edward. (fn. 83) In 1561 Edward Baynton conveyed it to
Thomas Long. (fn. 84) Thomas Long died in 1562 and
his heirs were his nieces Martha, wife of William
Meredith, and Magdalen, wife of Roger Sadler,
daughters of his brother Robert Long, and his
great-nephew Henry, son of Henry Viner and
Mary, a third daughter of Robert Long. (fn. 85) William
and Martha Meredith sold their ⅓ of the manor in
c. 1578 to Lionel Duckett, (fn. 86) and in 1579 John, son
of Roger and Magdalen Sadler, conveyed his
⅓ to Lionel Duckett's nephew Stephen. (fn. 87) Henry
Viner, however, appears to have acquired these
2/3 from the Ducketts, for on his death in 1626
he was seised of the manor of Chapmanslade and Godswell. (fn. 88) Richard Viner, Henry's son
and heir, died childless in 1649, and his heirs were
the daughters of his sister Mary, Mary, wife of
John Minshull, and Anne, wife of the Revd.
Oliver Chivers. (fn. 89) Mary Minshull died without
issue and her share in the manor passed to the
daughters of her sister, Anne Chivers, Susan, wife
of John Lewis, and Mary, wife of Thomas Bythesea. (fn. 90) By a partition of 1667 the manor of Chapmanslade was assigned to Susan, (fn. 91) who apparently
married secondly George Morgan, (fn. 92) while Mary
Bythesea received Wyke House, Trowbridge. (fn. 93)
Susan died childless, and the manor passed to her
nephew John, son of Thomas and Mary Bythesea. (fn. 94)
John Bythesea was succeeded in 1747 by his son,
another John. (fn. 95) This John died in 1782 and
Chapmanslade passed to his third son, William. (fn. 96)
In c. 1801 the manor was sold either by William
Bythesea or his son George, to Thomas Thynne,
Viscount Weymouth, (fn. 97) and it then descended
in the family of the Marquess of Bath until sold by
Lord Bath just after the Second World War. (fn. 98)
The manor of HEYWOOD originated in a grant
of 1½ virgate of land by Geoffrey Burnel to Stanley
Abbey some time about the beginning of the 13th
century. (fn. 99) Geoffrey had acquired the land by gift of
Hugh Plucknet, (fn. 1) and in 1224–5 William Burnel
confirmed the grant of his uncle Geoffrey to the
abbey. (fn. 2) Another virgate in Heywood was granted
to the abbey by Hawise Pavely, and confirmed by
her son Walter in 1240–1. (fn. 3) The estate in Heywood
belonging to the abbey was leased c. 1327 to Peter
of Berwick, and Joan de Bouches, and to John and
Simon, Joan's sons, for their lives. (fn. 4) In 1451
Heywood Grange, which probably represented the
whole estate, was let for 20 years at £3 a year. (fn. 5) A
rent derived in part from Heywood was granted
by the abbey in 1460–1 to the chaplain of the
chantry of St. Nicholas in Highworth church. (fn. 6) At
the Dissolution Heywood, still held by Stanley,
seems to have been annexed to Godswell, later
called Chapmanslade, another of the abbey's
manors. (fn. 7) It was acquired by Sir Edward Baynton
in 1537 along with much of the rest of the Stanley
Abbey property. (fn. 8) Sir Edward was succeeded in 1545
by his son Andrew, who conveyed the manor, then
called Heywood, alias Temmys Leys, to Henry
Long. (fn. 9) From Henry Long it descended to his son,
Thomas, who died seised of it in 1592–3 and was
succeeded by his son Edward. (fn. 10) Edward sold the
manor, which included other land in Heywood
to James Ley (cr. Earl of Marlborough 1626),
and upon 'Temes Leaze' the earl built a new
residence for himself. (fn. 11) The manor of Heywood
descended to James's son and heir, Henry,
Earl of Marlborough (d. 1638), (fn. 12) but was sold,
as was most of the earl's property in Westbury,
in 1639–40 by Henry's son James, Earl of
Marlborough (d. 1665) to Henry, Earl of Danby
(d. 1644). (fn. 13) Henceforward it descended with the
capital manor of Westbury. (fn. 14)
Some time in the later 17th century Heywood
House was acquired by the Ash family, and in c.
1700 it passed to Thomas Phipps, mercer (d.
c. 1715), who acquired the manor of Dilton in c.
1693. (fn. 15) The son of Thomas Phipps, another
Thomas, died in 1724 without issue and left
Heywood by his will to his mother, Bridget, for
life, and after her death to his brother William. (fn. 16)
William Phipps, Governor of Bombay, died at
Heywood House in 1748 and was succeeded by
his son Thomas. (fn. 7) Thomas's son, Thomas Peckham
Phipps, sold the house in 1789 to the clothier
Gaisford Gibbs. (fn. 18) Gaisford Gibbs died two years
later and his widow, Elizabeth, daughter of William
Matravers, another Westbury clothier, married
secondly Abraham Ludlow, M.D., of Bristol.
Susan, daughter and heir of Gaisford Gibbs, then
married the son of Abraham Ludlow, also called
Abraham, and brought to him her father's property,
including Heywood House. (fn. 19) Abraham Ludlow,
the younger, died in 1822, and his son Henry
Gaisford Gibbs Ludlow succeeded him at Heywood
House. (fn. 20) Susan, daughter of Abraham and Susan
and sister of Henry Gaisford Gibbs Ludlow,
married Ralph Franco, nephew of Sir Manasseh
Massey Lopes, who bought the manor of Westbury in 1810. (fn. 21) On the death of his uncle (Sir Manasseh Massey Lopes) in 1831, Ralph Franco assumed
the name of Lopes and succeeded to the baronetcy
as Sir Ralph Lopes, and to the lordship of the manor
of Westbury. (fn. 22) On the death of Henry Gaisford
Gibbs Ludlow in 1876, Heywood House passed
to the third son of Sir Ralph Lopes. (fn. 23) This was
Henry Charles Lopes, who was created Baron
Ludlow of Heywood in 1897. (fn. 24) A life interest in
part of the estate was also devised by H. G. G.
Ludlow to his sister's son, Endymion Porter. (fn. 25) Lord
Ludlow died in 1899, (fn. 26) and was succeeded by his
son Henry Ludlow Lopes, who acquired the manor
of Westbury in c. 1904 from his uncle Sir Massey
Lopes (d. 1908), eldest son of Sir Ralph Lopes. (fn. 27)
Henry Ludlow Lopes, Lord Ludlow of Heywood,
died in 1922 when the peerage became extinct. (fn. 28)
Since then Heywood House has had a number of
Heywood House was built in Jacobean style by
Henry Gaisford Gibbs Ludlow in the mid-19th
century. (fn. 29) It possibly stands on or near the site of
the house built by Sir James Ley in the early 17th
century (see above). The present house stands on
the east side of the main Westbury-Trowbridge
road and commands a wide view over the park and
lake towards the northern escarpment of Salisbury
Plain. There are two lodges to the park in Yoad
Lane dated 1896. Two more on the main road and
the stable block near the house are probably of
early-19th-century date.
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Magnitude 6.4 NEAR NORTH COAST OF MOROCCO
2004 February 24 02:27:48 UTC
Preliminary Earthquake Report
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World Data Center for Seismology, Denver
This earthquake occurred near the eastern end of the Rif mountain belt, which is part of the diffuse boundary between the African and Eurasian plates. The epicentral region is the most seismically active area in Morocco. The geologically prominent Nekor fault lies about 30 km to the southeast of the February 24 earthquake. Numerous northeast-southwest trending faults occur in the epicentral region, and the preliminary determination of the earthquake's focal mechanism is consistent with the earthquake having occurred as slip on one of these faults. The February 24, 2004, quake occurred near the epicenter of the May 26, 1994, magnitude 6.0 Al Hoceima earthquake that injured one person and caused significant damaged to adobe buildings.
The most deadly Moroccan earthquake in the 20th century was the 1960 magnitude 5.7 Agadir earthquake that killed 12,000 people and injured 25,000. Agadir is in western Morocco, about 750 km southwest of the February 24, 2004, earthquake.

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Olympics is not our cup of tea. let us realize this. sooner the better. let us concentrate on cricket. it gives us at least some moments to cheer .....!!!
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Not like that but we should reduce our participation to games like Shooting, Tennis, Badminton & Boxing. We shouldn't waste money by sending our athletes to the Olympics. Asiad & Commonwealth is enough for them.Answered by Gypsy, 06 Aug '12 10:19 am
Very well said .......still if few feel disheartened , they can see the movie " chak de India " once in a month for pseudo satisfaction :))Answered by PARTHA PATHAK, 06 Aug '12 10:22 am
Because of so much ignorance we are performing like this in the Olympic , we are just and just concentrating on Cricket, we have to change our mind, and concentrate on other sports also, why we always remember this type of sprots only in Olympics and why not alwaysAnswered by Psycho, 06 Aug '12 10:19 am


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Tourism idiomatic in Bariloche
Posteado el Mayo 15, 2010 - Categorizado en Hotels in San Carlos de Bariloche
San Carlos de Bariloche has become one of the cities more required in recent years by its positioning both as a tourist destination and his offer academic. Within this last, we can find what has been called "tourism idiomatic" which combines the tourism with the study of Spanish as a second language for foreigners.
The growth of this type of tourism depends on the combination of the study of a second language and recreational activities. Another advantage of the city of Bariloche to promote these programs of study is the attractive offer and hotel accommodations in general that can be found.
Hotels to stay in Bariloche for this high season 2010
Posteado el Mayo 13, 2010 - Categorizado en Hotels in San Carlos de Bariloche
Do not expect to reach the winter holidays for newly plan what is going to be its destiny to rest in this season. Mainly if you are planning to somewhere in high season as is the case of San Carlos de Bariloche, don't let be because the hotels are receiving the reservation. Around the Avenue also are hotels where you can stay in his visit to the city of Buenos Aires.
In this city, the accommodation options are as varied as the activities of recreation and amusement that you can enjoy his visit. Also Take promotions that often launch the various hotels of the city of San Carlos de Bariloche for this time.
Hotels near the main centers of ski de San Carlos de Bariloche
Posteado el Mayo 12, 2010 - Categorizado en Hotels in San Carlos de Bariloche
With the arrival of the winter holidays, lovers of the winter sports begin to search which will be your next track for visiting. Bariloche offers an attractive offer in terms of ski centers and hotels near the place to stay.
The Cerro Catedral located in the vicinity of the city of San Carlos de Bariloche is one of the most important of the country by its infrastructure, as it has 50 tracks and the enviable number of 33 lifts which carry a large amount of skiers per hour (25,000). It is important to take into account in this ski center, that there is a large number of young people, because San Carlos de Bariloche is the city chosen by the students to celebrate the end of course.
Tournament of poker in Bariloche
Posteado el Mayo 11, 2010 - Categorizado en Hotels in San Carlos de Bariloche
The next 14, 15 and May 16 will the tenth tournament Poker Texas Hold'em in the casino of San Carlos de Bariloche, Av San Martin 535. In the first two days the tournament will have dinner at the casino; in addition, will have a quota of 120 participants and a pit estimated $120,000; the Buy-In will be $800 and there will also be an Add-On and two Re-Buy $500.
Hotels with optional excursions in Bariloche
Posteado el Abril 17, 2010 - Categorizado en Hotels in San Carlos de Bariloche
If you are looking for in their holidays is adventure and fun, not forgetting obviously rest and relaxation, visit San Carlos de Bariloche and enjoyment of varied excursions in the hotels located here and enjoyment with your family or friends.
Not miss this opportunity and stay in hotels that include these excursions and in this way may hear and browse the places more fabulous, attractive, bars, restaurants, shopping centers, parks and museums of the city and bring the best memory.
Enjoy the ski season 2010 staying in hotels of Bariloche
Posteado el Abril 16, 2010 - Categorizado en Hotels in San Carlos de Bariloche
Autumn is a beautiful station and already arrived in the Cerro Catedral to open the season for skiing and snowboarding 2010. If you are looking is something different, make reservations at some hotel San Carlos de Bariloche to visit during the season autumn/winter and thus able to enjoy this beautiful destination and the Cerro Catedral.
It can enjoy activities for each day where intervene adrenaline to the rest and to turn beautiful landscapes in the Andes Argentine: Lagos, Ski, rich chocolates and gastronomy that will make your trip unforgettable. This opportunity is formidable and ideal for travel in family and find for all tastes, for little ones and adults.
Hotels near agencies rent-a-car in Bariloche
Posteado el Abril 15, 2010 - Categorizado en Hotels in San Carlos de Bariloche
If you want to travel to San Carlos de Bariloche and his idea is to walk in order to get to know each place that has this beautiful city but not wine in his vehicle don't worry. There are rent-a-car agencies that you solve this problem and can rent the car you like it.
Most of the hotels have the possibility of recruiting this service for you and all for greater comfort. The routes around Bariloche are mostly in a very good condition; even the paths to the Bolson, Villa La Angostura or San Martin de los Andes. In this way, rent a car can be very helpful. It also recommends taking precautions in times of heavy snowfalls and heavy rains.
Hotels near the Cathedral of San Carlos de Bariloche
Posteado el Abril 13, 2010 - Categorizado en Hotels in San Carlos de Bariloche
In San Carlos de Bariloche may visit the main catholic church of the city, The Cathedral of San Carlos de Bariloche, "Our Lady of Nahuel Huapi". Is located at the intersection of the streets Admiral O'Connor and Beschtedt and its surroundings can enjoy two seats with beautiful gardens that relate to the Diocese of Bariloche, suffragan of the Archdiocese of Bahia Blanca.
The cathedral has been established on 22 July 1993 by the bula "In hac beati" of John Paul II. The departments of Bariloche, Ñorquinco, Pilcaniyeu, May 25 and July 9 of the Rio Negro province. At the time to choose the hotel where staying see if it is near this attraction and not lose the opportunity to know
Come to Bariloche and add to the celebrations by the World Day of the Dance
Posteado el Abril 10, 2010 - Categorizado en Hotels in San Carlos de Bariloche
On April 29 inn the City of Bariloche, is celebrated World Day of the Dance and for the third time, this destination will be participant of the celebrations. Since early morning hours and at different points of the country, you can enjoy the performances. If you want to join them, must now reserve same any of the hotels that are in the city of Bariloche.
You can also enjoy hundreds of performances that are based especially to celebrate this day as classes open, testing outdoors, conferences, popular dances, exhibitions, publications in newspapers and magazines, programs on radio and TV shows, street, etc.
Restaurants with letter drinks with hotels in Bariloche
Posteado el Marzo 16, 2010 - Categorizado en Hotels in San Carlos de Bariloche
If there is something that should not miss in a gourmet menu is the correct choice of the beverage to accompany the dish that you have chosen. The majority of the hotel restaurants of San Carlos de Bariloche have letters of beverages that are chosen and designed for your usual public. The wines Malbec are those who possess the strains with higher variants and above all a presence above the rest.
There are also letters of lead in relates to cocktails, with unique mixtures that create drinks classics or own the place. And in addition to all this, a good selection of whiskies domestic and imported.


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