A fully Illustrated eBook on the Lord of the Manor and how the feudal title all began in 1086. It details with colourful illustrations the feudal and medieval times to the 15th century and to current times. The job of the Lord of the Manor was an important one with the holder being given a lot of power and rights. Included are Latin inscriptions taken from the manuscripts which gave the title of Lord of the Manor to Knights and Barons, initially by William the Conqueror. Property law and Manorial Rights are covered in illustrated detail. One chapter explains how the feudal titles of Lord of the Manor, Feudal Baron and the Scottish Laird of xxx come up for sale, from time to time, and the pitfalls to watch out for with several platforms selling fictitious titles that are not worth the paper they are printed on. Included are valuable links to check on the authenticity of a title and how to get a genuine title onto the holders photocard driving licence and passport. Scottish Lairdships are explained and again the pitfalls in totally fictitious titles being sold on the internet. It also explains about Epitome of Title Deeds that are being used to mislead purchasers into thinking that a title is genuine. This eBook will save you thousands of pounds from being ripped of by various dubious companies and platforms. For example, a genuine Feudal Barony cannot be purchased for anything less than £100,000, what is being sold by companies and platforms is the ‘Quiet Enjoyment’ of the title name only. You could do that yourself as under British law you can call yourself anything you want.
This eBook is a ‘must read’ it you are interested in buying a feudal title.
A must read if you are considering buying a manorial or feudal title.
The eBook explains the pitfalls and details the companies and platforms to steer clear of.
So much valuable content. 96 pages of valuable information and advice. It can save you thousands of pounds
Fulbourn Manor and its history and lineage of holders to this day.
Fulbourn Manor stands as the sole surviving structure among the five medieval manors that once defined the village's feudal landscape in Norman-era Cambridgeshire, including Zouches Manor, Manners Manor, Colvilles Manor, Shardelowes Manor, and Fulbourn Manor itself. This distinction underscores the manor's symbolic role in illustrating Fulbourn's evolution from a fragmented medieval settlement—evidenced by dual parishes and rival lordships in the 11th to 13th centuries—to a unified village community by the post-medieval period, as confirmed through local historical research debunking notions of separate "Fulbourn Magna" and "Fulbourn Parva." The manor's endurance amid the disappearance of its counterparts highlights shifts in land ownership, agricultural practices, and social structures that shaped the region's rural heritage.
Shardelows Manor, Colvilles Manor, Manners Manor and Zouches Manor were absorbed by Fulbourn Manor. These titles have not existed for some considerable time.
Dunmowes Manor is a lost manor and therefore escheat.
We suspect that these have been sold by dubious companies/platforms to unwitting purchasers who do not hole valid titles and have been scammed.
Fulbourn Manor Estate
An Archaeological Survey
82 pages / photos and maps
An archaeological survey of Fulbourn Manor Estate (TL520560 – 542559) from 1999 2001 used documentary and cartographic sources, together with field work, to produce a comprehensive statement on the archaeological importance of this area, with recommendations for its long-term investigation and management.
The estate includes part of one scheduled ancient monument (Fleam Dyke), a number of listed buildings and associated structures, a locally designated informal park, two Sites of Special Scientific Interest, and a Nature Reserve with wide public access and educational
potential. A mixture of landuse is practised including arable, pasture, woodland and gamemanagement, and recreational use.
In addition to the 18 archaeological sites already known from the estate the survey has identified five new ones including substantial and well-preserved earthworks within
woodland (TL527559). A large corpus of metalwork collected a decade ago has been catalogued and recorded, and includes Iron Age – post-medieval objects, some of
considerable local significance. Finds and sites of all periods from the Mesolithic to post medieval have been discovered, including a focus of activity near Shardelowes Well, and
the junction of the prehistoric and Roman route of Street Way and the northern end of Fleam Dyke (TL537563). This area includes a possible villa, and brooches of both Iron
Age and Anglo-Saxon date suggest the probability of transition between periods at thebeginning and end of Roman times.
Cropmarks of two moated sites have been identified and correlated to historical records for Colvilles and Shardelowes Manors (TL526560, 527557), and a third moat, which survives as an earthwork, has been identified as Dunmowes Manor. The concentration of these moats, the mill, and earthworks within woodland around the fen edge area of the Nature Reserve suggest the presence of a shifted medieval village, the main part of which can now be found further west near the present church of St Vigor. This is also the location of the present Manor (TL521562) and Old Manor, which both date from the 16th century, and the present survey also includes some building recording work. Of particular note was the discovery of an ornately patterned timber-frame gable end to the Old Manor,
unparalleled within the region, and the tentative suggestion that the Park was created between the late 16th – mid 18th centuries.
The evidence for a long-lived settlement near Shardelowes Well, on Street Way and beside Fleam Dyke could suggest exploitation of the economic advantage given by a
strategic location at the junction of different routes and boundaries, and a well-head to Wilbraham River. In the medieval period the focus of settlement shifted further west, to an area which gave rise to the village name (fugol-burna “Stream frequented by birds”),
but this in turn was subsequently abandoned in favour of a further shift in settlement to the west to the centre of the present village, and to the area around Fulbourn Manor itself.
