Site of hall and garden at Fenny Compton
Description of this historic site
The site of a house known as The Hall which dated to the Post Medieval period with landscaped gardens. It is known to have been in decay by 1746. It was situated 500m south east of Fenny Compton.
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Notes about this historic site
1 The Hall was built above the brook in Hall Yard, and the immediate area was landscaped. This landscaping included a fishpond (PRN 6197). The slope up to the church seems to have been terraced. The Hall was in decay by 1746, and has now disappeared completely except for a few foundation stones poking through the surface of the field.
2 Plan.
- For the sources of these notes, see the
- Timetrail record
- produced by the Historic Environment Record.
Comments
This was the residence of my last Willis (Wyllys) ancestors! Most of them left here in the 1630s in the second wave of The Great Puritan Migration. They sacrificed their comfortable life at the manor for greater religious freedom, which they found in Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts. I am writing this from the USA today, because my ancestor left this spot to get on a boat for North America nearly 400 years ago. If anyone has any further information about this manor site and its ancient residents, please contact me — thank you.
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