Cookys or Cooks. The Cookys farm house was the present Holt Street Cottage, which is just above the Holt Street cross-roads, and the accompanying land seems to have originally been some 14 or so acres to the rear of the house, and some 14 or more acres of the large field across the Snowdown Road, which is […]
Category: Farms and manors
The Manor of Oesewalum (also Oeswalum and Osuualun)
This is a revision of the first part of the Oesewalum web-page. Please go to https://nonington.org.uk/?page_id=1511 to read the complete illustrated article. A large part of the centre of the old parish of Nonington was made up of the Manor of Oesewalum (also Oeswalum and Osuualun) which was held by abbesses of Minster-in-Thanet (sometimes referred to in documents as Suthmynstre,which is now believed by […]
Estretling, now Old Court
A few hundred yards further east of Ratling Court is the apparent site of Estretling manor house, the present Old Court Farm. There are still records of the manorial courts that were held into the 19th. The windows of the present Old Court farmhouse and some brick work with blue headers indicate a date of construction of […]
The Quadryng family of Fredville
John de Say, fourth and last Baron Say, died in 1382 aged about 12 years old without a male heir, subsequently for the next two decades the manor, as part of the Barony of de Say, passed by a complicated chain of inheritance to various surviving sisters of the third baron and their heirs. The […]
Aylesham
1367 Elisham; 1405 Eylsham; 1418 Aylsham; 1445 Haylesham; 1604 Aylesham. The name is said to derive from O.E. Aegeles ham; Aegel’s homestead. Aylesham now refers to the actual mining village, but before the village was built there were references to Aylesham, or variations thereof, corner, wood and farm. Aylesham was part of the manor of Ackholt, […]