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This is the second of our caches placed in the local area we love. The cache is a small magnetic, contains a log & a pencil. Stealth required as lots of muggles at peak times.
Welcome to Green Farm, Quedgeley formerly know as Woolstrop, Quedgeley. It has been suggested that Quedgeley, which was not mentioned by name in the Domesday survey, was represented by part of the 3 hides that were included in Gloucester Abbey's Standish estate, and were held in 1086 by Durand the sheriff. Quedgeley may have been included alternatively or partly in Durand's Haresfield estate. Durand's nephew, Walter of Gloucester, held Quedgeley in 1095, and it passed to Walter's son Miles of Gloucester, Earl of Hereford. In 1165 it was divided between Miles's daughters Margaret, wife of Humphrey de Bohun, who had 2/3of the manor of QUEDGELEY, and Lucy, wife of Herbert FitzHerbert, who had 2/3. Both Margaret and Lucy granted their parts of the manor to Llanthony Priory, and although Margaret de Bohun later regained possession of her part in exchange for land in South Cerney, she restored it to Llanthony Priory before her death.The priory retained the manor until the Dissolution. The manor, held at farm by Arthur Porter in 1535 under a grant to John Mallet, was granted in fee to William Dodington in 1565. William was succeeded in 1600 by his son, Sir William (d. 1638). Sir William is said to have been succeeded by his son William, who killed his mother with a sword, but at Quedgeley as in his Hampshire estates Sir William was succeeded by his younger son John (d. by 1647), who was lord of Quedgeley in 1639 and 1640. John was succeeded by two daughters, of whom Anne (d. 1691) married first Robert Greville, Lord Brooke (d. 1676), and secondly Thomas Hoby. In 1692 Thomas Hoby sold Quedgeley manor to Henry Chapman, whose daughter Anne was the owner in the early 18th century. She married Thomas Whorwood who with his wife Elizabeth was dealing with the manor in 1717, and after his death in 1736 his son Thomas sold Quedgeley manor to John Yate of Arlingham. By 1775 the manor was owned by Robert Gorges Dobyns Yate (d. 1785), whose son Walter Honeywood Yate sold the manor with about half the land in 1800 to John Beach of Hardwicke. John Beach was succeeded in 1821 by his son John; the younger John or his representatives sold the manor c. 1867 to Col. John Curtis-Hayward, the owner of Woolstrop manor. The manor-house and farm were sold by John Frederick Curtis-Hayward c. 1903 and passed to several owners before 1939 when the Air Ministry bought them, but in 1967 the CurtisHayward family still owned the manorial rights. The manor-house is represented by Manor Farm, which stands on a large moated site east of the Bristol road. There was apparently a house there in the mid 12th century. The surviving house is a large two-storied building with an H-shaped plan. The southern cross wing dates from the 19th century but the central block and the northern wing have timber-framed walls concealed by brickwork or rough-cast rendering. The northern wing, which appears to have been built in the early 16th century, is the more elaborately finished internally. A groundfloor room has heavily moulded ceiling beams. The upper floor consists of a large room of four bays with richly carved brackets supporting the roof trusses, the formerly open roof being concealed by a later coved ceiling, and two external doorways may have led to a garderobe and an outside stair. The central block is of close-studded framing with a continuous rail at first floor level. The rail and the fact that the block contains no indications of a medieval open hall suggest that it was built or remodelled as a two-storied structure at a slightly later date than the northern wing; a projection on the west side may have housed the staircase. In 1524 the Prior of Llanthony held his court in the parlour above the hall, perhaps the upper room in the northern wing. It is also possible that the northern wing represents the manor place recorded in 1538, while the newly built house called the farmer's place, from which the manor place was then distinguished, may have been the central block with, perhaps, a contemporary south wing. There is no other evidence of more than one house associated with the manor. Arthur Porter is likely to have been living at Manor Farm in 1532, and he may have been responsible for building the central block. In the 17th and 18th centuries the house was occupied by tenants, and in 1672 it was the house with 9 hearths of Mr. Clissold. John Beach built a new cross wing at the southern end of the hall in 1811; it has a parapeted, stuccoed south front. A dovecot mentioned in the early 17th century may have been demolished then. The house was occupied by its owners in the late 19th century; in the First World War it was used first as a cavalry depot and then as a ploughing school, and after the war it became a training centre for ex-servicemen. It was later divided into two dwellings, and so remained in 1967.
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