10 Jul Lordship Title of Langford ID1169
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There are at the present day three manors in Langford, of which two—the manors of Holme with Langford and Langford Rectory—may be termed offshoots of the principal manor of LANGFORD. At the date of the Domesday Survey this manor, assessed at ten hides and originally held by Lewin, a thegn of Edward the Confessor, was in the possession of Walter Fleming, founder of the Wahull family. This family continued to hold the manor in chief in an almost direct line of succession till the later half of the sixteenth century. Simon, grandson of Walter the Fleming, was succeeded by a son Walter, who died without issue, and whose nephew Saer, son of his brother Simon, was lord of Wahull at his death in 1250. Walter, son of Saer, succeeded his father, and the succession of father and son was maintained unbroken from this time till the death of Nicholas de Wahull in 1367. He left two infant daughters, Elizabeth and Eleanor, to succeed him, who both died before 1377, and the manor therefore reverted to Nicholas de Wahull their great uncle. Again for more than a century and a half the manor continued in the direct male line, till the death of Anthony Wahull, in 1541, when it passed to his daughter Agnes, seventeen days old at the time of his death. She married twice, first Richard Chetewood, and secondly Sir George Calverly, and on her death in 1576 her son Richard Chetewood succeeded her. He married Anne daughter of Sir Valentine Knightley, and by his alienation of the manor to Charles Nodes in 1628, it finally passed from the family in whose hands it had remained since the Conquest. The Nodes were still holding the manor in 1704, in which year George Nodes transferred it to John Draper, who in 1716 conveyed it to Thomas Browne, and from that date until the beginning of the nineteenth century its descent is the same as that of Etonbury manor in the parish of Arlesey (q.v.). The present lord of the manor is Mr. Gurney.
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