In 1664 the manorial rights were leased from the Crown by Metcalfe family.

After then, manorial rights seem to cease.

Whatever manorial rights may have attached to this property had by now disappeared.

Toll had to be paid for all sheep sold at the rate of 4d a score, this being manorial right of the fair.

The manorial rights with property worth some £580 a year were bought by the Earl of Dartmouth in 1823.

The abolition of Withington's manorial rights in the 1840s meant that local government began to be formalised.

Between 1917 and 1925 the family sold almost all of the manor, and the manorial rights lapsed.

The Gibbons family owned the manorial rights from 1754 to 1933, and slowly sold off the estate from the 1800s.

Let me tell you, my friends, the whole question depends On an ancient manorial right.

In 1868 the parish was divided into small farms and by 1924 the manorial rights had lapsed.