Title deeds to estates in Ware and at Easneye Park, Stanstead Abbots, property of...

This collection comprises 18th and 19th century title deeds to estates centred on the parishes of Ware and Stanstead Abbots, but overlapping into the neighbouring parishes of Great Amwell and Thundridge. The chief properties in Ware were the manor and estate of Mardocks, with Moules Farm, Widbury Hill and Grumballs Farms, Noah's Ark Farm, Newhouse and Hales on the Hills Farms. In the 18th century they were largely in the hands of the Plumer and Hutchinson families, from whence they passed in the 19th century to the Ward, Proctor, Chuck and Wilkinson families: in the 1860's they were purchased by T F Buxton. The Stanstead Abbots' properties consisted mainly in maltings, cottages and small parcels of land, which were purchased in the 18th and 19th centuries by the Hankin family and sold to H C Wilkinson

<p>Manorial court rolls have been deposited for the manor of Waters alias Mardocks, for the years 1287-1739 [10808-10838], and a court book 1759-1828 [71460]</p>

[Accession 54]

Deposited 1943