Lordship/Ladyship of Thorpe in County of Derbyshire
Price £10,000 Now £6,000
Brief Description:
The manor was in the crown when the Survey of Domesday was taken. Ralph de Hormanwell was seised of it in 1245. It was afterwards in the family of Wythen, from whom it passed to the Cokaines. John Cokaine, Esq., possessed it in 1359; his descendant sold it, about the latter end of Elizabeth’s reign, to John Milward, Esq., of Bradley-Ash, from whom it descended to Charles Bowyer Adderley, Esq., the present proprietor
Hunsdon or Hanson-grange in this parish, which had been given, in the reign of Henry III., by Roger de Huncyndon, to the monastery of Burton-on-Trent, was granted by Henry VIII. to Sir William Pagett, and conveyed by him, in 1546, to John Flackett, whose descendant sold it, in or about the year 1638, to Robert Boothby, Esq. Some time afterwards it was in the family of Borrow, of Castlefield near Derby, by whom the house and some of the lands were sold to Mr. William Gould, the present proprietor. A part of this estate was purchased by Matthew Baillie, M. D., and is now his property.
A Viking settlement since 900AD.
Family Names:
Following family names once held the Title, to mention a few:
- Hormanwell
- Cokaines
- Milward
- Bowyer
- Pegett
- Flackett
- Boothby
- Gould
Held by Royalty:
Once held by 10 Kings of England:
- William the Conqueror
- William Rufus
- Henry I
- Stephen
- Henry II
- Richard I
- John
- Henry III
- Edward I
- Henry VIII
