Manuscript Court Book of the Manor of Bromham

Item date: 1783 - 1874
Grant Value: 460
Item cost: 460
Item date acquired: 2001
Item institution: Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre
Town/City: Chippenham
County: Wiltshire

Provides unsurpassed detail for the self-regulating life of a Wiltshire manor, overseen during this period by the Bayntun and then the Starkey families, most of the business being the management of the common land, before enclosure in 1814

Item Provenance
Bloomsbury Book Auctions, June 2001, Lot 287