Court Farm etched by Robert Brydon in 1905, before Morley Horder bought The Court House and restored the Hall to its mediaeval splendour
In medieval times the lands of East Meon Manor and Meon Ecclesia were owned by the Bishops of Winchester and either farmed in demesne by serfs indentured to the Diocese or let to farmers. The equipment and farm buildings for both were housed in the curia of The Court House which had two barns, one a tithe barn for the one-tenth of produce of tenant farmers, one a manorial barn for the grain grown on the demesne lands.. Following the Reformation, Court Farm was let to farmers who used The Hall and the other buildings to house their equipment and produce.
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Ben Place
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