Hampshire Treasures
Volume 2 ( Basingstoke and Deane)
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The Manor of east Woodhay was the property of the See of Winchester to which it had been given by Alwara and confirmed by Edward I in 1284. East Woodhay was included in the sale of the bishop's lands in 1648, the manor 'with the courts leet and courts baron belonging' were purchased by James Storey and the manor house and land by John Goddard and Tichborne Long. On the restoration of Charles II the manor was restored to the bishopric. Eventually the whole was acquired by the Earl of Carnarvon.
Four rectors of east Woodhay later became bishops and two are commemorated in the church windows, Bishop Ken and William of Wykeham, the latter holding in his hand a model of Winchester Cathedral.
Last century the East Woodhay sawmill supplied the sleepers for the first railway line built from Salisbury to London. In earlier times drovers from the west country arrived at East Woodhay on their way eastwards and rested their cattle and sheep. Here the beasts were 'cleeted' or shod with iron shoes for the remainder of their journey, which would be on gravel roads instead of grassy ox droves.
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