The Manor of Papworth is located in the parish of
Send with Ripley, Surrey, England. It has also been known historically as the Manor of Papeworth, Paperworth, Paperworth Court, and Papeworth Cross, among other names. Its history is intricately connected with that of the manors of
Send, Dedswell, and West Clandon.
Origins
The history of the Manor of Papworth is intricately connected with that of the manors of Send, Dedswell and
West Clandon
West Clandon is a village in Surrey, EnglandOS Explorer map 145:Guildford and Farnham. Scale: 1:25 000. Publisher:Ordnance Survey – Southampton. within 1 mile of the A3. It is situated one mile north west of the much smaller separate villag ...
and the families that owned them. Like Dedswell, Papworth may be derived from the holding of Walter or Herbert recorded in the
Domesday Book in 1086, but the matter is uncertain. Papworth has had various names over the centuries, including the Manor of Papeworth, Paperworth, Paperworth Court, and Papeworth Cross.
[Molyneux-Child, J.W. (1987) ''The evolution of the English manorial system''. Lewes: The Book Guild. p. 122. ]
History of the manor
The first lord of the manor was
William de Weston
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[Molyneux-Child, pp. 160-161.] (died c. 1353),
[WESTON, William I (c.1351-c.1419), of West Clandon, Surr.]
The History of Parliament. Retrieved 1 November 2016. lord of West Clandon. The manor then passed through the Slyfelde family before returning to the Westons in the 1600s. It was then in the hands of the King family and subsequently the Onslows until 1984. The first Earl of Onslow acquired it in 1783 in exchange for the nearby
Manor of Wisley
Manor may refer to:
Land ownership
* Manorialism or "manor system", the method of land ownership (or "tenure") in parts of medieval Europe, notably England
* Lord of the manor, the owner of an agreed area of land (or "manor") under manorialism
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The 33rd lord of the manor was Lieutenant Colonel John Walter Molyneux-Child who acquired it by inheritance in 1984 with the neighbouring ]Manor of Dedswell
The Manor of Dedswell is located in the parish of Send with Ripley, Surrey, England. It has also been known historically as the Manor of Dodswell, Dadswell, and Dadswell Court. Its history is intricately connected with that of the manors of Send, ...
from the trustees of the 6th Earl of Onslow
William Arthur Bampfylde Onslow, 6th Earl of Onslow, (11 June 1913 – 3 June 1971), known as Viscount Cranley until 1945, was a British peer, politician and army officer.
Onslow was the eldest son of Richard William Alan Onslow, 5th Earl o ...
(died 1971), and in succession to the 7th Earl of Onslow (died 2011) who relinquished the titles in that year. Acquiring the manors kindled Molyneux-Child's interest in their history and in the history of the manorial system generally and he began to research the subject and wrote a book of his findings, ''The evolution of the English manorial system'', that was published in 1987. Molyneux-Child exercised his right as lord of the manor to appoint manorial officials such as ale taster
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s and hangmen which he combined with fund-raising for charity. Following Molyneux-Child's death in 2015, the manor passed to his eldest son Patrick Molyneux-Child.
Manor house
The Papworth manor house, now known as Papercourt Farm House, dates to the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries with a twentieth century extension, and is a grade II listed building with Historic England. It is on the edge of the River Wey floodplain and adjacent to Papercourt Lane. As far as is known, the only lord of the manor to occupy the house was William de Weston in 1331.[Molyneux-Child, p. 112.]
References
Further reading
*Molyneux-Child, J.W. (1987) ''The evolution of the English manorial system''. Lewes: The Book Guild. {{ISBN, 0863322581
Manors in Surrey
Borough of Guildford