Old Park and Park Farm cannot be clearly associated with any manor. The earliest record of what is thought to be this Old Park, associates it with the manor of Greenwich - a holding manor for monastic property seized by the crown following the dissolution. In 1619 an Old Park, conceivably the same place, is recorded in the Sackville manor of Allington (48). It is possible that it was former monastic land acquired by the Sackvilles following the dissolution. The Park abuts outliers of the manor of Allington on three sides and clearly it would have been convenient to administer it as a tenement of that manor, although, apart from that one mention, it cannot be traced in the manorial records.

Gipp's Farm was once part of a substantial estate held here by the Michelbourne family in 1565 'Jeppes Longford and Stoners croftes, messuage 106 acres; tenement halfyard or ferling; The Downe a parcel of land; messuage, halfyard and ferlinge, sometimes Wyrgars 102 acres - free £1 2s 9½d' The land associated with that tenement encompassed what is now Bradness, Longford and Down Coppice. In addition the Michelbournes also held a substantial part of what is now Sutton Hall and Vuggles.

Free tenements are not well recorded in the court books so precise dates are sometimes uncertain, but the key tenements were all in the hands of Christopher Mansell of Newick Park by 1734.

Tithe Data

Seven Acres

1841 Census

Tenement Analysis

Buildings

Archaeology

Old Maps

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