The Manor of Manydown covered three parishes in northern Hampshire - Wootton St Lawrence, Baughurst and Hannington - and this current volume relates the histories of the various houses, buildings and lands within those parishes between 1650 and 1800.  It also describes in easily understood English the manorial system as it was operating at that time.  Naturally, it includes a great deal of data on the people who lived in that parish or held properties there.

The large parish of Wootton St Lawrence at that time comprised East Oakley, Manydown and Tangier Parks, Wootton St Lawrence village, Upper Wootton, and Ramsdell.  Baughurst was a tithing of the parish of that name, and included districts such as Browning Hill, Pound Green and Wolverton Town's End.  Hannington parish comprised Foscot, Hannington village (part), Freemantle and Sheardown Farms and the hamlet of Ibworth or Ebworth.  There are also included short accounts of the various other manors that existed in that district at that time.  This, the second volume of the histories of the properties in the Manor of Manydown, begins in 1650, at a time when England was a republic, and continues to 1800, when our nation was at war with the French, who had declared a republic for themselves.  A great deal of history had taken place in the meantime!  Over 300 pages.

Picture: Manydown House, 18th century