A HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE 



FARLEIGH WALLOP 



Ferleye (Domesday) ; Farley, Farlega (xiii cent.) ; 

 Farlegh (xiv cent.) ; Farlegh Mortymer, Farle 

 Mortymere, Farley Mortimer (xiv cent. ; xv cent. ; 

 rvi cent.) ; Farley Wallop (xvii cent.). 



The small parish of Farleigh Wallop contains 1,725 

 acres of hill country which reaches its greatest height, 

 of over 680 ft. above the ordnance datum, in the 

 centre of the parish, where the main road which 

 climbs up north from the Candovers meets the branch 

 road which cuts across from the north-west of the 

 parish and runs east by the lodge and grounds of 

 Farleigh Park to the village. From here, after rising 

 again by Broadmere, the ground gradually falls away 

 towards the north of the parish, reaching only a 

 height of about 400 ft. as the main road leaves 

 Farleigh and enters Cliddesden. 



Farleigh House, the residence of Mrs. Routh, 

 with its wide stretching grounds and park, occu- 

 pies most of the south-west corner of the parish. 

 The house itself lies immediately south of the village, 

 the out-buildings and stables becoming part of the 

 village, and the high garden wall running along the 

 south side of the village street. The village itself, 

 lying on high ground, consists only of a few farm- 

 houses and buildings with one good thatched house, 

 and one or two cottages which stand lower than the 

 road as the ground slopes away on the north side. 

 At the east end of the village, near Park Farm, which, 

 with its thatched out-buildings and farm-yard, in 

 which is a gigantic horse-chestnut tree, stands on the 

 left, a narrow lane known as Pigeon House Lane 

 leads sharply downhill to the north. From here over 

 the meadows to the north can be seen the church of 

 St. Andrew, lying away at the top of a rising field, 

 about a quarter of a mile from the village. It is served 

 by the rector of the neighbouring church of Cliddesden. 



The soil of the parish is clay with a subsoil of 

 chalk, on which the ordinary green crops and wheat, 



barley, and oats are grown on the 708 J acres of arable 

 land. There are 286 acres of permanent grass in 

 the parish and 270 acres of woodland. The latter is 

 almost wholly in the south of the parish, where in 

 the south-east the Great Wood stretches south of 

 Farleigh Park ; and in the south-west Inwood Copse 

 sweeps away to the west of the main road, covering 

 the track of country that lies between the main road 

 and that leading from the parish of Dummer. 



The overlordship of FARLEIGH 

 MANOR WALLOP was held at the Conquest by 

 the king,' and in the fifteenth and sixteenth 

 centuries by the prior of St. Mary of Southwick ; * 

 after the Dissolution it appears to have been held of 

 the crown as of the hundred of Basingstoke. 3 



In the time of the Saxon king Edward, Ulvera or 

 Wulfgifu held Farleigh, 4 her successor after the Con- 

 quest being Siric, the chamberlain, who held of the 

 king. 5 Farleigh was subsequently held by a family 

 who took their surname from the place. Henry de 

 Farley, in the reign of Edward I, is found alienating 

 his manor of Farleigh to Robert 8 de Mortimer and 

 Joyce 7 his wife, at whose death it passed to his son, 

 Hugh de Mortimer of Richard's Castle, son of this 

 Robert (or Roger as he is sometimes called). 8 He 

 died without male heir in 1 304, leaving Joan and 

 Margaret, daughters and co-heiresses. In 1316 Roger 

 de Mortimer of Richard's Castle held the vill of Far- 

 leigh 9 and in 1328 made settlement of the manor on 

 William de la Zouche, of Assheby. 10 Robert son of 

 William de la Zouche was lord of the manor in 1 346," 

 and was still in possession in 1371." Early in the 

 next century, however, the manor of Farleigh 

 Mortimer must have been alienated by the Zouches, 

 since it was held in 1428 and in 1431 by John 

 Wyntreshulle of Surrey. 13 The Wyntreshulles did 

 not long hold Farleigh, as in 1486 John Wallop died 

 seised of the manor of Farley Mortimer." 



i V.C.H. Hants, i, 505. 

 s Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), ii, 3 1 ; ibid. 

 (Ser. 2), xvii, 31. 



> Chan. Inq. p.m. 41 KHz. pt. i, No. 6. 



V.C.H. Hants, i, 505. 



* Ibid. Or Roger. 



7 Abbrev. Plac. (Rec. Com), 1 99. 



8 Pat. 25 Edw. I, pt. 2, m. 8 ; Feet of 

 F. Div. Cos. East. 26 Edw. I. ; ibid. 

 Mich. 25 Edw. I. A little before hi 

 death he had alienated Farleigh to John 

 de Drckenesford in the reign of Edw. I 

 (Chan. Inq. p.m. 32 Edw. I, 48). 



9 Feud. Aids, ii, 313. 



10 Feet of F. Hants, Trin. 2 Edw. III. 

 According to Dugdale, Robert de Morti- 

 mer, of Richard's Castle, had two sons, 

 Hugh, who died 1304, and William, 

 called la Zouch of Mortimer, from his 

 property in Ashby de la Zouch. This 

 Roger de Mortimer of Richard's Castle, 

 holding Farleigh in 1316 and 1328, may 

 possibly have been another son, to whom 

 the property, when John de Drokenes- 

 ford's time of tenure was over, may have 

 reverted (Dugdale Baronage, i, 1523). 



11 * Robertus de la Zouche tenet in Farle 

 dimiduum feodis quod fuit Johannis de 

 Drokenesford.' Feud, Aids.\\, 330. 



la Feet of F. Hants, Trin. 45 Edw. III. 

 u Feud. Aids, ii, 344, 364. The aliena- 

 tion probably took place about 1389, for 



at that date a fine occurs between 

 William Pant, parson of the church of 

 Farley Mortimer, and Thomas de Illeston 

 and his wife, Margaret, by which the 

 latter conveyed the manor to William 

 Pant. The conveyance was evidently for 

 the purpose of sale or re-settlement. In 

 1371 Robert,son of William de la Zouche, 

 had settled the manor upon himself and 

 his wife Margaret and their issue. Possibly 

 this Margaret, wife of Thomas de Illeston, 

 may have been identical with that Mar- 

 garet, wife of Robert de la Zouche, she 

 having married again on her husband's 

 death, or, which is perhaps more likely, 

 she may have been a daughter of Robert 

 de la Zouche. 



u Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), ii, 31. 

 According to Millard and Baigent (Hist, 

 of Basingstoke, 247) and Stevens (Hist, of 

 St. Mary Bourne), also Berry (Hants Genea- 

 logies], Farleigh descended to the Wallops 

 from the De Valoignes, Sir Thomas 

 Wallop having married Margaret daughter 

 and heiress of Nicholas de Valoignes, and 

 having obtained with her the manors of 

 Cliddesden Hatch and Farleigh. This 

 marriage took place in the reign of Henry 

 V (f ide Stevens, Hist, of Basingstoke), but 

 John Wyntreshulle held Farleigh or Far- 

 leigh Mortimer in 1431 when Henry VI 

 reigned. Possibly the Valoignes had for 



3 6 4 



time past owned land in this parish 

 separate from the Mortimers' manor. 

 (Stevens says that Farleigh manor-house 

 was the seat of Sir William de Valoignes 

 temp. Hen. III.) It is noteworthy that 

 the hamlets of Hatch and Cliddesden, of 

 which with Farley Mortimer John Wallop 

 died seised in 1486, were in 1316 held by 

 Nicholas de Valoignes, although Farleigh 

 at that time was owned by Roger de 

 Mortimer. In 1346 John de Valoignes 

 held half a fee in Cliddesden, and in 1428 

 William Fachell ' held half a fee there 

 late in possession of John Valence (Feud. 

 Aids, ii, 344). It was between 1447 and 

 1486 that William ' Vachell ' appeared as 

 one of the patrons of ' Farleye ' church, and 

 the fact that he who was the lord of Clid- 

 desden in 1428 was a little later patron of 

 Farleigh seems to indicate a common 

 ownership of the two parishes about that 

 date. This theory depends upon the 

 identification of 'Farleye' with Farleigh 

 Mortimer. The name of Wyntreshulle 

 does not appear among those who pre- 

 sented to the church. It may be that 

 they alienated the manor to the De Va- 

 loignes. In 1420 Jno. Wyntreshulle held 

 the half knight's fee that had before been 

 held by Robert de la Zouche, but in 1431 

 he held his manor of Farleigh Mortimer 

 for the fourth part of a knight's fee. 



