Abenhall Manor House (General)
by acdymond 
, Tuesday, June 14, 2011, 19:39 (4915 days ago)
On 4th May 2011 Jefff posted:
“While researching these locations I was pleased to learn my first place of employment as a Rank Xerox apprentice in 1978, the old Wintle's Brewery, was built 110 years earlier from red sandstone from the Wilderness Quarry. Indeed, the original Abenhall Manor House of the late 1600s was at Court Farm which was also swallowed by Ranks warehousing re-development in the 70s, however these buildings were not preserved.”
I am anxious to know the origin of the information about the location of Abenhall Manor House at Court Farm.
Abenhall Manor House
by slowhands , proud of his ancient Dean Forest roots, Saturday, June 18, 2011, 06:35 (4911 days ago) @ acdymond
The manor house was recorded from 1301 (fn. 1) and the site may have included the hall mentioned in 1444 and 1471. (fn. 2)
In 1481 Thomas and AliceBaynham were licensed to have an oratory in thehouse. (fn. 3) The manor house was occupied
by a tenant by 1625, (fn. 4) and Thomas Dowle, a later farmer of the demesne, was assessed on two hearths in 1672. (fn. 5)
The house stood east of the church (fn. 6) and was demolished with its outbuildings in the mid 19th century. (fn. 7)
From: 'Abenhall', A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 5: Bledisloe Hundred, St. Briavels Hundred, The Forest of Dean (1996), pp. 93-101.
URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=23253 Date accessed: 18 June 2011.
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Abenhall Manor House
by acdymond , Monday, June 20, 2011, 09:01 (4909 days ago) @ slowhands
Thank you Slowhands. I already have this information; indeed the Tythe map of 1838 shows an unoccupied old house and gardens to the east of Abenhall church but I have no proof that this was Abenhall Manor House. My task is to try to find the exact location of the house, which is why I was intrigued by the assertion made by Jefff that it was at Court Farm at Mitcheldean.
Abenhall Manor House
by m p griffiths , Monday, June 20, 2011, 17:11 (4909 days ago) @ acdymond
If you contact the Gloucestershire Records Office - they appear to hold records on the Probyn family of Huntley and Newland -
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Title Deeds - Abenhall, Mitcheldean and Ruardean
'The manor of Abenhall and a third part of the manor Mitcheldean (1651) manors of Abenhall and Netherley, etc.etc. - Marriage Settlement Edmund PROBYN and Sophia DALTON, - the manor of Abenhall and lands (1757) messuage and lands in Abenhall (1794).
Family members - buried at Longhope (over 500 gravestones recorded on this website)
All Saints Church Longhope
Abenhall Manor House
by acdymond , Tuesday, June 21, 2011, 06:40 (4908 days ago) @ m p griffiths
Thank you m p griffiths.
Abenhall Manor House
by Jefff , West London, Middlesex, Thursday, June 23, 2011, 02:17 (4906 days ago) @ acdymond
Hi, acdymond,
sorry for not spotting your query earlier, as I could have saved you and other forum users the inconvenience. I must admit to not being expert in this matter, and my post was based partly on reading the splendid reference already mentioned, thanks Slowhands. However as I'm sure you are aware, my post contained a glaring error which I've now amended, I incorrectly typed Abenhall when I should have typed Mitcheldean !
I'm sorry for inadvertantly misleading you and wasting you good people's time.
My post was made while learning about the Wilderness Estate and John Ayleway, and it rather proves to me that reading and posting very late at night after long workdays is not wise on my part! Oddly enough, it's for this very reason I've been offline for a while, having realised that as fascinating as our local history is, it shouldnt keep us from our sleep !.
The text concerned, which I'm sure you know, was;
"An estate mostly comprising leasehold land in Mitcheldean and Abenhall belonged to William Bridgeman, who was given part of it, including a house in Mitcheldean, by his father John (d. 1548). William, who in 1549 purchased some land belonging to a chantry in Mitcheldean church, died in 1581 and his son and heir Thomas sold bits of the estate piecemeal to John Ayleway. John's purchases included much of the Wilderness, which was held from the Crown as of St. Briavels castle in free socage. John (d. 1607) was succeeded by his son John, who came of age in 1619. He died in 1626 and his brother and heir William sold the estate in 1630 to Nicholas Roberts, owner of part of Mitcheldean manor with which it descended. John Ayleway's house, which after his death in 1626 was occupied, sometimes only in part, by a tenant, came to be regarded as the manor house by the end of the century when Maynard Colchester held courts in it. The house, which was at Court Farm, immediately north-east of the town, was later used as a farmhouse and was rebuilt in the early 19th century. It was demolished c. 1970 to make way for an extension of the Rank Xerox factory.
From: 'Mitcheldean', A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 5: Bledisloe Hundred, St. Briavels Hundred, The Forest of Dean (1996), pp. 173-195.
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=23259&strquery=Ayleway