Notes & Queries Archive
REPLY1850

Sydenham or Tidenham

By GEO. ORMEROD. (Sedbury Park, Chepstow)

I have no doubt as to Sydenham, included in the inquiry respecting Cromwell's Estates (No. 24. p. 389.), being *Tidenham*; for this manor, the property of the Marquis of Worcester, was possessed by Cromwell; and, among my title deeds connected with this parish, I have Court Rolls *in Cromwell's name* both for *Tidenham* itself and for *Beachley*, a mesne manor within it. These manors, which were inherited from the Herberts by the Somersets, were taken out of the former Marches by the statute 27 Hen. VIII. cap. 26. § 13., and annexed, together with *Woolaston*, similarly circumstanced, to the c…

Topics: Cromwell's Estates, Historical Land Ownership, Legal History

Locations: Sydenham, Tidenham, Beachley, Woolaston, Gloucester, Westbury