HILL HOUSE FARM, HARTLEY WESPALL, HAMPSHIRE HOLDSHOTT MILL, HECKFIELD, HAMPSHIRE, MOOR PLACE, YATELEY, HAMPSHIRE, SILKS alias PIPERS, HOLDSHOTT, HAMPSHIRE AND OTHER FARMS COLLECTION

This material is held atMuseum of English Rural Life

Reference
- GB 7 FR HAN 7
Dates of Creation
- 1678-c1930
Name of Creator
- Charles Shaw-Lefevre, 1st Viscount Eversley
Language of Material
- English.
Physical Description
- 186 documents

Scope and Content

Contains: Correspondence relating to properties owned by Lord Eversley 1855-1907; bonds for the maintenance of mothers and children in Heckfield 1741-1791; sundry loose accounts 1708-1907; settlements certificates for Hampshire and Berkshire 1678-1805; leases for property in Holdshott, Heckfield, Hartley Westpall, Mattingley, Hampshire 1780-1890; sketch map of the common inclosure award for Heckfield, Hampshire 1861; map of parish of Heckfield c1930; notices to quit property in Hampshire 1855-1885; entries in the rate books for the parish of Heckfield 1741-1798; valuations of machinery and loose plant of Holdshott Mill, Heckfield 1869; extracts from valuation list of Heckfield and Mattingley, Hamphsire 1885; census of population and houses in Heckfield, Hampshire 1831; anonymous reminiscences of Mattingley, Hampshire during the Victorian period n.d.; summary of the acreage of various farms in Heckfield, Hampshire c1830

Administrative / Biographical History

The farm records refer chiefly to properties owned in the later 19th century by Viscount EVERSLEY of Heckfield Place, Hampshire. Moor Place, (to which the accounting records in HAN 7/2/22 appear to relate), was occupied from 1780 to 1822 by Thomas Bunch. He was succeeded in October 1822 by James Ellis. By about 1890 the farm had changed its name to Geale's Farm. The Crondall Manor Court at which copyholds were surrendered may have been not at Crondall [village] Hampshire, but at Crondall End, near Moor Place.