The Brockhampton Estate is a

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property in

Herefordshire Herefordshire () is a county in the West Midlands of England, governed by Herefordshire Council. It is bordered by Shropshire to the north, Worcestershire to the east, Gloucestershire to the south-east, and the Welsh counties of Monmouthsh ...

, England, and is to the north of the

A44 A44 may refer to : * A44 road (Great Britain), a road connecting Oxford, England and Aberystwyth, Wales * A44 motorway (Germany), a road connecting Aachen at the German-Belgian border and Kassel * A44 motorway (Netherlands), a motorway in the Nethe ...

Bromyard Bromyard is a town in Herefordshire, England, in the valley of the River Frome. It lies near the county border with Worcestershire on the A44 between Leominster and Worcester. Bromyard has a number of traditional half-timbered buildings, inc ...

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road, opposite the northern edge of

Bringsty Common Bringsty Common is a scattered settlement and of common land in Herefordshire, England, spanning the A44. It lies close to the Worcestershire border and within of the town of Bromyard. The area falls within the civil parish of Whitbourne. The ...

and east from the town of

. The significant aspect of the Estate is Lower Brockhampton, a

timber framed Timber framing (german: Holzfachwerk) and "post-and-beam" construction are traditional methods of building with heavy timbers, creating structures using squared-off and carefully fitted and joined timbers with joints secured by large wooden ...

manor house A manor house was historically the main residence of the lord of the manor. The house formed the administrative centre of a manor in the European feudal system; within its great hall were held the lord's manorial courts, communal meals w ...

that dates to the late 14th century, surrounded by a moat, and entered by a restored

gatehouse A gatehouse is a type of fortified gateway, an entry control point building, enclosing or accompanying a gateway for a town, religious house, castle, manor house, or other fortification building of importance. Gatehouses are typically the mo ...

at the front of the house. The house is surrounded by of

farmland Agricultural land is typically land ''devoted to'' agriculture, the systematic and controlled use of other forms of lifeparticularly the rearing of livestock and production of cropsto produce food for humans. It is generally synonymous with bo ...

, some of it parkland, with specimen trees and of

woodland A woodland () is, in the broad sense, land covered with trees, or in a narrow sense, synonymous with wood (or in the U.S., the ''plurale tantum'' woods), a low-density forest forming open habitats with plenty of sunlight and limited shade (se ...

. In 2010, the National Trust undertook a major restoration of the house using traditional

wattle and daub Wattle and daub is a composite building method used for making walls and buildings, in which a woven lattice of wooden strips called wattle is daubed with a sticky material usually made of some combination of wet soil, clay, sand, animal dung a ...

building methods. The Brockhampton Estate was bequeathed to the National Trust in 1946 by Colonel John Lutley, in whose family it had been for more than twenty generations, although the name of the family had changed several times through marriage. The site of the medieval village of Studmarsh is thought to be on the Estate; in 2012, an archaeological dig unearthed the foundations of two buildings that may have been part of the village.

Brockhampton and the Barneby family

Thomas Barneby, who was killed at the

battle of Towton The Battle of Towton took place on 29 March 1461 during the Wars of the Roses, near Towton in North Yorkshire, and "has the dubious distinction of being probably the largest and bloodiest battle on English soil". Fought for ten hours between ...

in 1461, married Isabella Whitgreave of

Bockleton Bockleton is a small village and civil parish (with a shared parish council with neighbouring Stoke Bliss and Kyre) in the Malvern Hills district of Worcestershire, England, south of Tenbury Wells. According to the 2001 census it had a populatio ...

, heiress of the Brockhampton estate. One of his descendants was William Barneby, Sheriff of Worcester in 1605, who married Amphylis Lyttleton, a daughter of Sir John Lyttelton (1519–1590). Amphylis Barneby's niece Bridget Marrow was a gentlewoman at the court of

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from 1603, and became keeper of her jewels. Amphylis wanted her nephew to join the household of

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. She wrote to her kinswoman, Meriel Lyttelton asking for advice. Lyttleton's reply was discouraging, saying that Amphylis's nephew Thomas Cornewall of Eastham and

Burford Burford () is a town on the River Windrush, in the Cotswold hills, in the West Oxfordshire district of Oxfordshire, England. It is often referred to as the 'gateway' to the Cotswolds. Burford is located west of Oxford and southeast of Che ...

had misinformed her. Cornewall had joined the Prince's household in 1603. However, when the time was right, Lyttleton's brother Henry Bromley of Holt would help her.

Henry Ellis Henry Ellis may refer to: * Henry Augustus Ellis (1861–1939), Irish Australian physician and federalist * Henry Ellis (diplomat) (1788–1855), British diplomat * Henry Ellis (governor) (1721–1806), explorer, author, and second colonial Gover ...

''Original Letters Illustrative of British History'', 2nd series vol. 3 (London, 1827), pp. 218-9
:

Mary Anne Everett Green Mary Anne Everett Green ( Wood; 19 July 1818 – 1 November 1895) was an English historian. After establishing a reputation for scholarship with two multi-volume books on royal ladies and noblewomen, she was invited to assist in preparing cale ...

, ''Calendar State Paper Domestic, Elizabeth, 1601-1603'' (London, 1870), p. 22:

Cecil Foljambe, 1st Earl of Liverpool Cecil George Savile Foljambe, 1st Earl of Liverpool, (7 November 1846 – 23 March 1907), known as The Lord Hawkesbury between 1893 and 1905, was a British Liberal politician. A great-nephew of Prime Minister Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liv ...

''The House of Cornewall'' (Hereford, 1908), pp. 217-8, 221
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References

External links

Brockhampton Estate information at the National Trust
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