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Entry TypeCorporate
Corporate NameManor of Alfreton
PlaceAlfreton
EpithetManor
HistoryAlfreton was held by Wulfric Spott, who gave it in his will of 1004 to Burton Abbey. It soon came into lay hands again and was held by Morcar before the Norman Conquest. In 1086 it was held of Roger de Busli by Ingram, whose descendants took on the surname of Alfreton. After 1241 the manor passed to Thomas de Chaworth, and it remained with the Chaworth family until the early 16th century, when it passed to the Babington family. In 1565 Sir Henry Babington sold the manor to John Zouch, whose son sold it in 1618 to Robert Sutton, from whom it was purchased in 1629 by Anthony Morewood. It remained with the Morewoods until the death of George Morewood without male heir in 1792. George’s wife, Helen, later married Rev. Henry Case (who took on the name of Morewood), and it was bequeathed in Helen’s will to her nephew, William Palmer, who took on the arms and added the name of Morewood in 1825. The Palmer-Morewoods remained lords of the manor until the early 1960s.
SourceMagna Britannia: Volume 5: Derbyshire by Daniel and Samuel Lysons (1817) pp. 3-4
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50720&strquery=alfreton
A History of Alfreton by Reginald Johnson (1970)
A descriptive and historical account of Alfreton by T. Bateman (1812)

The majority of surviving records for the Manor of Alfreton are held in the archive of the Palmer-Morewood family at Debryshire Record Office (reference D1763). A court roll for 1460 is held privately in the Haddon Hall archives of the Duke of Rutland.
Authorised Form of NameAlfreton; Manor of Alfreton; Manor

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