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Walter Whitaker, Lord of Motcombe
Dates: 18th century
Brother and successor of Henry Whitaker as holder of Motcombe; he died childless.
View historical person →Waltham Abbey, Abbey of Waltham Holy Cross
Dates: Medieval institution; dissolved in the 1530s
Augustinian abbey at Waltham Holy Cross in Essex and the recorded former owner of the Manor of Abbots estate described by Morant.
View historical person →Waltheof, Anglo-Saxon earl, pre-Conquest lord of a Barthorpe holding
Dates: Died 1076
Anglo-Saxon nobleman and earl who held land before the Norman Conquest. Domesday records him as the 1066 lord of one of the Barthorpe holdings.
View historical person →Wandesford, Christopher, son and heir
Dates: son and heir
View historical person →Wandesford, John younger son, second son
Dates: second son
View historical person →Sir Wandesford, John, knight, son and heir
Dates: died without issue
View historical person →Wandesford, Roger, died without issue
Dates: died without issue
View historical person →Wandesford, unnamed second son, heir to his brother
Dates: second son; heir to his brother
View historical person →War Office / War Department
Dates: Government department active during the period
The United Kingdom government department responsible for the army before the creation of the Ministry of Defence. It acquired substantial land on Salisbury Plain for military training, including…
View historical person →Warin Monchesney, Anglo-Norman landholder
Dates: fl. late 12th–early 13th century
Anglo-Norman landholder who received William Marshal's moiety of Shrivenham in free marriage with Joan Marshal, according to the supplied manorial history.
View historical person →Warine de Lisle, Lord of the vill of Beedon
Dates: died 1322
A medieval landholder who joined the rebellion of Robert, Earl of Lancaster, and was executed at Pomfret in 1322.
View historical person →Warine son of Godfrey
Dates: Active in the later twelfth century
Medieval landholder associated with the Banastre family. He received Abram from Henry II and made or confirmed grants of land in Abram to Cockersand Abbey.
View historical person →Way family of Denham Place
Dates: Later post-medieval and 19th-century association; exact family holding dates not established
The Way family of Denham Place is identified in the local historical dossier as the later owner of Alderbourne Manor after the Dukes of Somerset.
View historical person →Well family
Dates: Medieval family; individual dates not identified
The Well family is identified in the historic-development account as holding the estate at Well at the time of Domesday.
View historical person →Wenman Roberts Coke, Esquire of Holkham and Longford, successor to the Coke estates
Dates: c.1716–11 April 1776
Born Wenman Roberts, he was the son of Major Philip Roberts and Anne Coke. Through his mother he inherited the Holkham and Longford interests after the extinction of…
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