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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. |