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Advert in Sussex Advertiser - Monday 06 July 1835

Valuable Freehold Landed Estates, with Mansion, Manors, Park and Farm. Situate in the Parishes East Peckham, Wateringbury, and Nettlested, in the finest part of the county Kent; containing about 546 Acres capital Arable, Meadow, Pasture, Hop Grounds, and Wood Land¹, lying within a ring fence.

TO SOLD BY AUCTION,

BY MR. HOGGART,

At the Mart, London, Friday, July 17, at Twelve, in One Lot, without reserve, by direction of the Trustees of the late Sir Wiliam Jarvis Twysden, Bart.², and pursuant his will,

ROYDON HALL, for many years the residence of the !ate Sir W. J. Twysden, with the Manors Eastmere, Albans, and Lomewood, extending over a large tract of land, rights of free warren, heriots, quit rents, etc; a finely timbered park, capital farms, farm houses and buildings, situate in the parishes East Peckham, Wateringbury, and Nettlested, the most fertile part of the county Kent, and consisting the Mansion, which is beautifully placed within the Park, commanding the most magnificent views of the country, contains nine principal bedchambers, six secondary chambers, spacious entrance hall, dining and drawing rooms of good dimensions, morning room, picture gallery, 38 feet in length; housekeeper and steward's rooms, servants offices of every description, with excellent cellaring; a court-yard, with stall stabling for seven horses, coach-horses, cart horse stable, and various farm buildings; a capital kitchen garden, shrubberies, walks and pleasure grounds of nearly five acres; gamekeeper's cottage, with approach to the mansion; meadow lands, and about 174 acres thriving wood land, at present in hand: a cottage residence a short distance from the mansion, with about 13 acres of land, in occupation of F. Twysden, Esq. The Warren let to William Beadle; Wateringbury Farm³, with 161 acres of land, let to Mr. Ellis⁴, on lease, at a rental of £381 14s. per annum; the Home Farm, with 170 acres of land, forming part of the Park, let to Mr. Hatch, at rental £275 per annum; and lands let to Mr. Henham others. The whole of this beautiful estate contains 545a. 3r. 28p. fine, rich arable, meadow, pasture, hop grounds, and wood land, lying together ring fence, and of the value upwards £1,100 per annum. There is also a stone quarry on the estate, which yields about £50 per annum.

May be viewed tickets, which with particulars, may be had of Mr. Hoggart, 62, Old Broad street, Royal Exchange; particulars also John Dudlow, Esq., Town Malling; of Messrs. Hastings and Sheringham, no. 3, Harpur street, Red Lion square; at the Bell Inn, Maidstone; Rose and Crown, Tunbridge; Kentish Hotel, Tunhridge Wells; Crown, Rochester; Fountain, Canterbury; and at the Auction Mart, London.

South Eastern Gazette - Tuesday 10 June 1834

The Roydon Hall Estate,

Within 8 miles Maidstone, 6 of Tonbridge, and 30 of London,

with the Park and Demesne Lands, Manors, Grant of Free Warren, Rights Royalties, etc.

To be Sold by Auctlon, BY MESSRS. MORRIS, At the Mart. London, on Wednesday, the 2nd July, 1834, at Twelve o'Clock, in one Lot.

by order of the Devisees for Sale of the late William Jarvis Twysden, Bart. deceased

THE ANCIENT MANSION, called Roydon Hall, more than three centuries the property and residence the Twysden Family, and last occupied by Sir W. J. Twysden², Bart, deceased, with the gardens shrubberies, etc. adjoining, containing about 5 Acres, and the contiguous Park, commanding from several points extensive and picturesque views over the most fertile and highly-cultivated portion of Kent. The Estate is Freehold, and comprises in the whole by a recent admeasurement.

FIVE HUNDRED AND NINETY-FOUR ACRES

of Hops, Arable, Meadow, Pasture, and Wood, in the several Parishes of East Peckham, Wateringbury. and Nettlested. Part of the Land, including about 178 Acres of highly valuable Woodland, is in hand, the remainder let to most respectable tenants and the annual rent or value upon a reasonable estimate exceeds

ONE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED POUNDS.

Also the Freehold Manors Chart, Eastmere, Albans, Westburyes, and Lomewood, with the Heriots, Quit Rents, and other services, incident to them, together with the right of Free Warren granted to Sir William Twysden. Knight and Baronet, in the 15th year of the reign of James the First. It would be superfluous to enlarge upon the value and advantages of this Estate, either as residence or for investment. The whole is in high state of cultivation. The hop grounds in Wateringbury particularly possess a distinguishing feature, that in blighting years they have generally been found to escape the attack in other grounds, thus rendering the produce doubly valuable. The property is in the most fertile part of the highly favored County of Kent, surrounded by good roads, at an easy distance from the County Town, the fashionable retort of Tonbridge Wells and the Metropolis. It may be viewed by application at Roydon Hall, more detailed particulars, and lithograph plate of the Estate may he had 14 days prior to the sale; also at the Rose and Crown, Tonbridge; Crown, Rochester; Fountain, Canterbury;of John Sheringham, Esq. Raymond Buildings, Gray's Inn; of John Dudlow, Esq. Town Malling; the Auction Mart; and of Messrs. Morris, Surveyors and Land Agents, Maidstone.

Notes:

1. Woodland: the value of wood had declined with the use of iron for shipbuilding and the decline of charcoal burning in the Weald (see A Manor through Four Centuries by A.R. Cook -O.U.P. 1938 p.151). The woodland around Roydon had been the subject of a long running tithe dispute with the Wateringbury vicar and had been severely depleted during the Civil War during the sequestration of the estate.

3. Wateringbury Farm: is not a name commonly used but the reference must be to Westbury Farm (now Manor Farm). In the tithe schedule of 1839 James Ellis is shown as the tenant of Westbury Farm (owner W. Cook, by then the owner of Roydon Hall) with a size of 147 acres.

When Sir W.J. Twysden died the mortgage on the estate was held by William Cook (1784-1869) who finally agreed to take over the property in full satisfaction and in 1837 moved there himself with his family.

4. Mr. Ellis: James Ellis also "occupied" at the time of the tithe surveys farms in West Barming (80 acres of which 27 acres were hops); East Barming (2 farms of 76 acres and 30 acres of which 46 and 11 acres were arable/hops); East Farleigh (Court Lodge farm of 264 acres of which 125 acres of hops). He owned Farleigh Bridge House with 10 acres of which 4 acres under hops. See Hopping (1817), Hopping (1824) and Inquest (1836)