West Hanney or Priors Hanney

The second estate in East Hanney, which after the 16th century was known as PRIORS HANNEY, belonged at the Domesday Survey to the Count of Evreux. It had been held in the reign of King Edward by two freemen. Attached to it were two mills, worth 27s. 6d., and 70 acres of meadow. The whole was assessed at 2 hides and was worth £6. This manor was granted by the Count of Evreux to the priory of Noyon in Normandy, and was held by the priory till Henry V confiscated its possessions. He endowed the priory of Sheen in Surrey with its temporalities, including the manor of East Hanney. After the Dissolution this manor was granted to John Cheney of Woodhay, who sold it before 1568 to John Clarke of Ardington. John Clarke died in 1570 and left the manor by will to his second son John. Edward Clarke, son of the younger John, who subsequently became lord of Ardington (q.v.), inherited the manor on his father's death, and in 1612 sold it to Paul Ambrose Croke. The latter was already the owner of half the manor of Long Hanney, and the two estates subsequently descended together.