William Yaxlee

William, 3rd Viscount Ashbrook

Dates: 18th century-1805; exact dates not required for the conveyance

The third Viscount Ashbrook and a member of the Flower-Ashbrook succession. He sold the Abercynrig estate in 1800.

William, abbot of St John's, Colchester, and associated feoffees, Feoffees of Aldham

Dates: fl. 1443

The named parties were ecclesiastical and local landholding feoffees who held Aldham and associated lands under a mid-fifteenth-century enfeoffment.

William, Earl of Suffolk, second son of Robert de Ufford, 1st Earl of Suffolk

Dates: dates not established in the cited source

William inherited the Aldringham connection within the Ufford comital family and held the manor for life under a fine described by Copinger.

William, son of Baderon, Count of Mortain

Dates: died after 1140

Son and successor of Robert, Count of Mortain. He is identified in the registry as having reconfirmed the grant of Blackham in 1100.

Willie Wray

Willoughby Bertie, 3rd Earl of Abingdon

Dates: 1740-1799

Willoughby Bertie was the third Earl of Abingdon and a major eighteenth-century landowner. He is identified as the Bertie holder who sold Aldworth Manor in 1756.

Wilson family

Winchcombe Abbey, Benedictine abbey at Winchcombe, Gloucestershire

Dates: Medieval institution; dissolved during the English Reformation

The Benedictine Abbey of Saint Mary at Winchcombe was a major medieval religious landholder in Gloucestershire and surrounding counties. It held Adminton from at least the Domesday period…

Winchcombe Abbey, Benedictine abbey at Winchcombe, Gloucestershire

Dates: Medieval institution; dissolved 1539-1540

Winchcombe Abbey recovered Adminton after its temporary assignment to Saint-Evroult and held it until the abbey's dissolution under Henry VIII.

Winchester City Council, Local authority

Dates: Acquired farmhouse and substantial land in 1966; sold in 1989

The municipal authority responsible for Winchester, which acquired the surviving Abbotts Barton farmhouse and substantial associated land in 1966 before later selling the property in 1989.

Windsor family

Dates: 17th century association with Alderbourne Manor; exact dates not established

The family is reported by the local historical dossier as having acquired Alderbourne Manor in the seventeenth century.

Witham Charterhouse

Wriothesley Noel, 2nd Earl of Gainsborough

Dates: died 1690

Son and successor of Edward Noel, 1st Earl of Gainsborough. He died eight years after his father's succession, after which the titles and estates passed to his cousin…

Wulfgeat, brother of Hunning, Pre-Conquest holder of Acton [Round]

Dates: fl. before 1066

A pre-Conquest landholder recorded in the Domesday entry for Acton [Round] as brother of Hunning. No fuller biography was established.

Wulfric, Lord of the Agardsley estate in 1066

Dates: Active in 1066

Wulfric was the recorded pre-Conquest lord of the estate later known as Agardsley or Edgareslege. The Domesday evidence gives no secure further identification.

Wulfric, Free man under Edric of Laxfield

Dates: Recorded in 1066

A pre-Conquest local landholder recorded in the Aldeburgh Domesday antecedent tradition. The public summary does not provide a fuller biography.

Wulfric Spot, Earl of Mercia

Dates: died 1016

Wulfric Spot was a powerful Mercian nobleman whose will is reported to have transferred Bromley and other estates to Burton Abbey in or about 1004.

Wulfric Spott, Saxon nobleman or landholder

Dates: Died or made his will before or in 1004; exact dates not established here.

A prominent Anglo-Saxon landholder associated with Alfreton and other estates. The surviving summary records his testamentary gift of Alfreton to Burton Abbey in 1004.

Wulfsige the Black, Anglo-Saxon landholder, the source does not assign him a formal title specific to Abbots Bromley.

Dates: fl. 10th century

Wulfsige the Black was an Anglo-Saxon landholder who received lands in Staffordshire by charter from King Edmund in 942. The surviving summary identifies Abbots Bromley among those lands.

Wulfstan

Dates: flourished before 1066

A pre-Conquest Anglo-Saxon landholder recorded as holding Adwell freely before the Norman Conquest, and probably also holding neighbouring Aston and Britwell Salome.

Wulfstan II of Worcester, Bishop of Worcester, 1062–1095

Dates: c. 1008–1095

Wulfstan II was the Bishop of Worcester from 1062 until his death in 1095. He was a prominent English ecclesiastic who retained his see after the Norman Conquest…

Wulfwin

Dates: Recorded in 1066

A pre-Conquest landholder recorded by the Suffolk parish report as holding Aldham in 1066.

Wymond Cary