Clanna estate history (General)

by slowhands :-) , Monday, July 04, 2005, 11:52 (7088 days ago) @ cyberacct

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In 1806 John Parsons and the two Davis sisters sold the manorial rights with the house called CLANNA and a demesne farm of 242 a. to James Proctor Howell. Howell sold that estate in 1820 to William Middleton Noel (d. 1859), who devised it to his nephew Edward Andrew Noel. The Noels bought back some of the lands alienated from the manor at the beginning of the century, and bought land in adjoining parishes, (Footnote 2) and the estate comprised 654 a. in 1884 when E. A. Noel sold it to WalterBentley Marling, (Footnote 3) brother of Sir William Marling, owner of the adjoining Sedbury Park estate. (Footnote 4) W. B. Marling further enlarged the Clanna estate by adding farms in Hewelsfield and St. Briavels, and in Alvington, where he bought Glebe farm in 1898. (Footnote 5) In 1919, when he offered his estate for sale, it comprised 1,966 a. and included eight tenant farms. Some farms were sold separately, while Clanna and the bulk of the estate were bought in 1920 by Richard Pryce-Jenkin of Raglan (Mon.). (Footnote 6) Pryce-Jenkin died in 1951 (Footnote 7) and his estate was split up during the next few years. (Footnote 8)

From: 'Alvington', A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume V: Bledisloe Hundred, St. Briavels Hundred, The Forest of Dean (1996), pp. 5-14. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=23249. Date accessed: 03 July 2005.