House plots and land holdings in the Vill’ of Essesole as recorded in the 1501 Manor of Essesole rental roll.The Lord of the Manor at this time was the Abbot of St. Alban’s, who also held the adjoining manor recorded as Eswalt in the Domesday Book of 1086. It was around this time that the Abbey’s two […]
Month: July 2022
Anglo- Saxon Nuns and Nonington by Peter Hobbs
Peter Hobbs is the present owner of the old St. Alban’s Court manor house in Nonington. Peter has published numerous articles concerning the extensive, and still ongoing, archaeological investigations he has undertaken over the past twenty or more years in and around the old St. Alban’s Court manor house and on the nearby site of […]