Weston or Oakhanger

The two moieties of ELTON, described in the Domesday Survey as being in Shefford and belonging to Odo Bishop of Bayeux, are represented by the farms of Elton and, possibly, OAKHANGER. They are first mentioned as one manor in the foundation charter of St. George's Chapel at Oxford in about 1074. After the forfeiture of the Bishop of Bayeux in 1082 the overlordship returned to the Crown. The abbey of Abingdon at an early date acquired the greater part of the tithes, which they attached to their church at Welford, and thus this part of Shefford came into this parish. The Domesday record states that Bristei had held 1½ hides in Shefford of the Confessor and that at the time of the Survey they were held of the Bishop of Bayeux by Robert Doyley. The overlordship of this manor seems to have passed with the other estates of this family to Robert's only daughter Maud, who married firstly Miles Crispin and secondly Brian Fitz Count. After her death it passed to her cousin Robert, the founder of Oseney Priory, who was the son of Niel Doyley. From Robert it passed to his son Henry and from him to another Henry his son, who left an only daughter Maud, who died unmarried. It then passed to Henry Doyley's sister Margery the wife of Henry de Newburgh Earl of Warwick, who was followed on his death in 1229 by his son Thomas Earl of Warwick, who was holding it shortly afterwards and died seised of it in 1242, when the overlordship seems to have passed to the Crown.