| Entry Type | Corporate |
| Corporate Name | Manor of Heage |
| Parent Body | Honour of Tutbury (Member of Duffield Fee) |
| Also Known As | High Hedge; High Edge; Heihegg; Heighedge |
| Place | Duffield |
| Epithet | Manor |
| History | Heage was not named in the 1086 Domesday Survey but was described as a manor in its own right in 1251, part of the Honor of Tutbury belonging to the de Ferrers family. Heage lay within the Forest area of Duffield Frith. After their rebellion in 1266, the de Ferrers’ lands were forfeited to Henry III, who passed the Honor of Tutbury, including Heage, to Edmund of Lancaster. Thereafter, Heage was consistently included in the group of manors known as Duffield Fee, and shares the Fee’s history until 1628. It remained with the Earldom and Duchy of Lancaster, which passed to the Crown in 1399, until Charles I granted Duffield Fee to the Corporation of the City of London in 1628. The next year, the Corporation sold on Heage separately from the Fee to Sir John Stanhope of Elvaston, Sir Thomas Hutchinson of Owthorpe, Notts and Timothy Levinge of Derby. They leased Heage manor to William Stanhope of Linby, Notts, son of Sir John Stanhope. Courts were held in his name until 1647, then the manor was apparently sequestered. Sir John Gell was briefly named as Lord in 1647/8. From October 1648, for the rest of the interregnum, Richard Brookes, friend of the Stanhopes, held the manor, with Sir William being restored in 1663. He was succeeded by a son William who died in 1703, leaving Heage to his nephew Godfrey Wentworth. Godfrey died in 1718, leaving his estate to his son, also named Godfrey, who sold the manor in 1767 to Francis Hurt of Alderwasley. It remained with the Hurt family into the 20th century, and Francis George Hurt still retained the title of lord of the manor in 1941.
Geographic Extent
Court leet or view of frankpledge with court baron |
| Source | Magna Britannia, Volume 5 : Derbyshire, by Daniel and Samuel Lysons (1817)
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50727&strquery=heage
Victoria County History – draft text for Heage Manor, part of new VCH Derbys volumes to be published in future years. Permission to view draft text kindly given by Philip Riden, Co-ordinator of VCH for Derbys & Notts.
Trade Directories, 1829-1941
Duffield Frith – History & Evolution of the landscape of a Medieval Derbyshire Forest, by Mary Wiltshire, Sue Woore, Barry Crisp & Brian Rich (Landmark, 2005)
Custom, resistance and politics: Local experiences of improvement in early modern England, by Heather Falvey, doctoral thesis (Warwick University, 2007) http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/1143/ |
Heage and Duffield Fee court rolls (14th to 17th cent) at The National Archives
Duffield Fee court books (1595-1628) at Derbyshire Record Office
Heage court rolls (1631-1753; 1782-1941) at Derbyshire Record Office |
| Authorised Form of Name | Duffield; Manor of Heage; Manor |
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