Stotfold Manor

Information taken from Victoria County History, Vol. II, 1908.

Part of the fifteen hides which Hugh de Beauchamp held in Stotfold at the time of the Survey went towards the formation of a subordinate STOTFOLD MANOR, which belonged to the priory of Chicksands. Simon de Beauchamp (c. 1190) granted the church of Stotfold with all its appurtenances to Chicksands, and in 1276 the prior held two carucates of land in Stotfold, and also claimed view of frankpledge in his manor there. At the Dissolution this manor was granted by the crown to Trinity College, Cambridge. The grant was confirmed by James I owing to some question of the validity of the original grant having arisen, and Trinity College is still in possession

List of sources at Bedfordshire Archives: 

• HA500-511: Court Rolls
• X195: Manor Court Books of the Manor of Stotfold, 1698-1934