Z937/4

Pulloxhill - Manors of Pulloxhill and Beeches (or Upbury), and Piggot land in the Gravenhursts.

1664-1813

From: 1487 To: 1927

The Manors There were once at least three manors in Pulloxhill: Pulloxhill (& Greenfield); Upbury (or Beeches); and Kitchen End. By 1673 they were all in the hands of Thomas Neale who leased various parts of the manors separately, as discrete units. He leased the fields from behind Pulloxhill church down to Kitchen End to the Piggot family, and this lease descended from them through the Hale family to Heames. In 1693, Charles Nicholls negotiated the acquisition of the lease from Heames. The Neale link seems by then to have disappeared. Thomas Neale leased Upbury Manor to the Piggots in 1673 for 500 years, and sold the Lordship House of Pulloxhill Manor to the Piggots for 2000 in 1673. Although the house was sold at the same time and to the same people who were leasing other parts of the manor, it was treated as a separate unit. When Nicholls acquired the former manorial land behind the church, the lordship house was not included. Early Pulloxhill Enclosure Pulloxhill's nineteenth century enclosure award affects so little land it's clear the parish must have been through a much earlier enclosure. Until this collection was deposited there was no documentary evidence for it. Now, in item Z937/4/6 dated 1678, there are several references to newly-created closes which had been named "since the enclosure" so there is no doubt an earlier enclosure took place some time before that date.

sub-fonds

Pulloxhill Manor, PULLOXHILL, GRAVENHURST