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The Lambardes of Sevenoaks owned these lands from 1793 all
through the 19th century; the name Gore Lambarde appears in
1893, and the next Lambarde is William Gore Lambarde. All freeholds etc.
were acquired by Raoul Hector Foa of Hollywell Park in 1904, who bought
up most of the lands of Ridley Parish to attach to his property of
Holywell Park in Ash.
The names of some of the Ridley Court fields are Rummer,
Viney, Strugs Dean, Peakman Croft, Jobs or Jubbs Hill and the Dowleys.
In 1878 Albert Thorpe Hilder, farmer, lived at Ridley
Court. The Manor of Ridley may at one time have held "Court Leets"
a kind of parochial criminal court, but since 1793 only "Courts
Baron" i.e. a sort of parochial Court of Chancery were held, and it
is from the records of those that the name of occupants of the various
lands of the Parish can be traced. Only one entry is of general interest
viz. that in 1820 William Greene was appointed Keeper of the Parish
Pound. The position of this pound is uncertain, all stray cattle were
impounded until a fine was paid for their release.
By the Law of Property Act of 1922, compulsory
extinguishment of all manorial Incidents was enacted and it is on record
that the Manor or Ridley was wound up for all
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time by the following capital payments: -
£ s d
In 1930 Raoul Hector Foa
99. 0. 6
1932 Alice Ann
Bishop
3. 2.10
1932 Edith Caroline
Hayman
2. 1.11
1935 Lt. Col Harold
Murray
22. 8. 0
1939 John
Haworth
22. 10. 0
1939 Francis
Honey
19. 8. 0
1939 Thomas Dott
26. 4. 6
£194. 15. 9
And so with the outbreak of the Second
World War, the Manor of Ridley which had played its part in
maintaining Justice and levying taxation in the Parish of Ridley for
nigh on one thousand years, passed into the limbo of forgotten things.
Sources of information:-
Hasted’s "History of Kent".
Samuel Bagshaw’s "History of Kent" 1847
"Local History" compiled by the late
Chairman Commander
F.N. Stagg. Chairman
of the County Local History
Committee and of the
Kent Council of Social Service. |