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Cholesbury Manor House
Manor House, Cholesbury
Cholesbury Manor House is located in Buckinghamshire
Cholesbury Manor House
Location within Buckinghamshire
General information
Architectural styleTudor
Town or cityCholesbury, Buckinghamshire
CountryEngland
Coordinates51°45′18″N 0°39′17″W / 51.754997°N 0.654824°W / 51.754997; -0.654824
Construction startedc.1590

Cholesbury Manor House which is close to the centre of

Lord of the Manor
held his Court periodically between 1599 and 1607. The building dates back to the end of the 16th century. It is a Grade II Listed Building.

Description

The

Grade II listed building. Originally constructed of wood, it has retained its timber framework but acquired a brick casing in the 18th century. It is suggested by English Heritage
that the original building was much larger than it is today, consisting probably only the cross-wing of a once much larger house.

The house was built on an area previously occupied by a section or rampart which formed part of the ringwork of Cholesbury Camp, an Iron Age hillfort. Also, close by the house and within the boundary of the hillfort is St Lawrences Church.

Today the house still retains much of the original roof structures and timber interior structure, an older thin brick chimney stack at the west end of the building and a much more modern chimney at the east end. Major refurbishment work in 2011 has retained the extant original features and removed or renovated the more modern additions.[1]

Occupants

The building has not been used as a Manor House on a continuous basis since the 17th century. The

royal marine who fought at the Battle of Trafalgar. In the early part of the 20th century it was lived in by Thomas Robinson, the retired miller of Cholesbury Windmill
.

Lords of the Manor

The manor of Cholesbury is not recorded in the Domesday Book and was first recorded in the 13th century as Chelwardisbyry. In 1086 it was, most likely, included within the manor of Draitone (Drayton Beauchamp), which according to the Victoria County History for Buckinghamshire was under the control of Magno le Breton and was assessed at 6 hides, and 3 virgates.[3]

Prior to the Conquest the manor which contained the lands known then as Chelwardisbyry had been overseen by Aluric a

King William I and those that succeeded him to the Crown of England for almost two hundred years. The manor of Cholesbury was first recorded in a conveyances of 1248 and another in 1251 to Hughle le Breton who was living in Wolverton. Thomas Perot was keeper of the manor in 1330. His name lives on to this day as Parrott's Farm. The next mention was in 1362 certifying it was in the hands of Mary the Dowager Countess of Norfolk
.

Thomas was the first of several in the Cheyne family who resided nearby at

Second World War in 1948 and it was purchased from him by John Randall in 1953. After his death in 1979 Elma Randall became the first female Lord of the Manor before it was bought by Dennis Smith in 1982. From 1987 the Lordship was held jointly by Michael Smith and Christine Stott, and from 1996 solely by Christine Stott.[4]

References

  1. ^ Historic England. "The Manor House Cholesbury (1124868)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 8 July 2011.
  2. ^ The Vestry of Cholesbury 1820-1894 Author: Arnold Baines Record of Buckinghamshire Archarelogical Society 1961 Volume 17, Part 1 pp57-71, Retrieved 8 July 2011
  3. ^ A History of the County of Buckingham: Volume 3 (1925), pp. 334-335., Date Retrieved 8 August 2011
  4. ^ Local Heritage Study Hawridge and Cholesbury Commons - Appendix VII List of all known Lords of the Manors, Editor Lindsay Griffin Archived 26 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine Date Retrieved 8 July 2011
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