Broxbourne Manor of the Bishop of London (The Gatehouse Record)

In the civil parish of Hoddesdon.
In the historic county of Hertfordshire.
Modern Authority of Hertfordshire.
1974 county of Hertfordshire.
Medieval County of Hertfordshire.

OS Map Grid Reference: TL371069
Latitude 51.74429° Longitude -0.01520°

Broxbourne Manor of the Bishop of London has been described as a Palace although is doubtful that it was such.

There are no visible remains.

Description

Residential manor of the Bishop of London, listed by Thompson.

The RECTORY MANOR of Broxbourne was held with the church by the Bishops of London, (Lond. Epis. Reg. Gravesend and Baldock, fol. 41) who seem to have generally farmed it out. (Ibid. Braybrook, fol. 345–6) In 1651 the rectory and glebe lands were sold by the trustees for the sale of bishops' lands to Edmund Lewin and his heirs for £522. (Close, 1651, pt. xxxi, m. 3.) The Bishop of London regained it at the Restoration, and in 1728 it was leased to the lord of the manor, (Salmon, Hist. of Herts. 16) and was probably acquired by him together with the advowson in 1868. (VCH)

Sources of information, references and further reading

Further information may be available from the holder of the county Historic Environment Record.

Books
- Emery, Anthony, 2006, Greater Medieval Houses of England and Wales Vol. 3 Southern England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) p. 234 (mention)
  Thompson, M.W., 1998, Medieval bishops' houses in England and Wales (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing) p. 180
  Page, Wm (ed), 1912, VCH Hertfordshire Vol. 3 p. 430-440 (parish history) online transcription
Other sources: Theses; 'grey' literature; in-house reports; unpublished works; etc.
- Payne, Naomi, 2003, The medieval residences of the bishops of Bath and Wells, and Salisbury (PhD Thesis University of Bristol) Appendix B: List of Medieval Bishop's Palaces in England and Wales (available via EThOS)

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