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The eight Whiteparish manors
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A Whiteparish local history page from younsmere-frustfield.org.uk
This page introduces the eight manors that made up Whiteparish and the ninth that occupied the rest of Frustfield, and explains the boundary and name changes that resulted in what we now know as Cowesfield and Whiteparish. Apart from those above and in the footer to the page, the linked files on this page have not yet been uploaded to the public version of this website, but do ask me to upload any section you'd like to see.
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The Hundred of Frustfield contained nine manors, eight of which were and are within the parish of Whiteparish. Boundary changes since the late nineteenth century removed the detached part of Whiteparish, part of Alderstone manor that borders Melchet, and incorporated part of Downton parish that lay within Frustfield into a new parish of Redlynch, along with Newhouse, previously within Whiteparish.
The eight Whiteparish manors
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The three Cowesfield manors introduce a naming complication. With absent landlords renting out the land, the three separate manor names gradually ceased to be used. The manorial centre of Cowesfield Spilman moved to Cowesfield House and the farmhouse of Cowesfield Green Farm was renamed as Cowesfield manor, so that two of the manors were then known simply as Cowesfield, while the third name simply disappeared (Cowesfield Louveras), incorporated into the land used by the adjacent Broxmore House in Alderstone manor, again rented from the landowner. A further complication is that the houses of Cowesfield Gate are not within the Cowesfield manors, but part of Alderstone manor, the manor that includes All Saints Church. Today we think of this part of Alderstone as part of Cowesfield. A glance at the outlying part of Alderstone manor at the bottom right of the map above is probably sufficient to show how this came about.
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Modern parishes within Frustfield; the old Whiteparish boundary is in red on the right hand map
Below is an index to the eight Whiteparish manors and the other manor that was also part of Frustfield (Landford).
The parish boundaries shown are current best estimates and are regularly improved by finding old documents to refine detail in particular areas. With time there are plans to publish my fully detailed working maps.
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