10 Jul Lordship Title of Holwell Bury ID5582
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The manor of HOLWELL BURY appears to have originated in the 3½ hides of land which the abbot of Ramsey held in Holwell at the time of Domesday (1086), though no mention of it as a manor is found until the fifteenth century. About 1255 William de Holwell held 2 hides of the abbot, for which he gave 10s. per annum and suit at the courts of Broughton and Shillington. In 1302 one of the same name was holding by feudal service of the abbot in Little Holwell, as also in 1346. Thomas Hobard in 1513 enfeoffed Edmund Jenney and other trustees of Holwell Bury manor to the use of George Ashfield and Margery his wife (probably daughter of Thomas). Margery Ashfield died in 1525, leaving a son Robert as heir, who in 1553 sold Holwell Bury to Thomas Snagge for £530, and his son Thomas sold the manor in 1576 to John St. John of Bletsoe. Oliver St. John, his son, again sold it in 1601 for £1,800 to Richard Hale, who held it till his death in 1620, being followed by his son William and his grandson, another William, the latter holding Holwell Bury in 1670. The Hales continued to hold this property until the middle of the nineteenth century, when it was purchased by Mr. Dodwell. The property has since been dispersed, and that portion which includes the old farm-house and buildings has been purchased by Mr. Hartley of Liverpool, and is now used as a fruit-growing farm.
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