Map of LUXBOROUGH

[No title, surveyor or scale]

Scale c. 30" : 1 ml. O.S. 6" 47 NW.

Plan of Croydon Hill showing a disputed area of common, several landmarks named viz. Basse [Bats Castle] Marepoole, Lancombe Stone [Longcombe]. Graystone, North Burrow, Pycombes Corner. Adjoining landowners named together with gates on the west side of the common. Everards Ball named with crude elevation of the house. Stone piles indicated around the disputed area to which is added the note "Here hath benn tillage by Luxborow men, Mr. Syderven hath had the tythe as beloninge to Luxborow".

The map marks Sir John Wyndham's land and that of James Darch.

Maxwell Lyte - Historical Notes on some Somerset Manors (1931) - records that Sir John Wyndham the first bought land in the manor of Luxborough Everard in 1558. His son John died in 1572 and the purchaser died in 1573, the manor passing via his wife to his grandson Sir John Wyndham the second, who is mentioned as holding the land in 1601. This Sir John had been succeeded by his own son John by 1620.

In 1559 Robert Darch bought land in Luxborough Picot which was devised to his kinsman James Darch in 1575. In 1627 there is a reference to Thomas Darch, son of James.

Thus Sir John Wyndham the second and James Darch can have been holding land simultaneously only between 1575 and some time before 1620. The map is therefore to be dated circa 1600.