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RefNoK509/6/2
AltRefNo509/6/2
TitleAbington Estate; the whole estate
DescriptionBy the eighteenth century Abington Estate consisted of almost all the property and land in Great Abington, and a considerable amount in Little Abington. In 1652 the Abington manors were sold to John Bennet (cousin to the Bennet who owned neighboring Babraham). By 1690 the estate was mortgaged to Thomas Western, a London merchant, who took possession in 1697. In 1784 Thomas Western’s heir sold to John Pierson (another London merchant), who resold in 1800 to John Mortlock. [VCH, Vol. VI, pp. 5-6]. After the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 16th century, the impropriate rectories of Great and Little Abington were bought in 1540 by Sir Philip Parys, who also owned land in Little Abington and Hildersham. The rectory of Great Abington passed eventually, in 1679, to John Bennet, Lord of the two manors. Thereafter it passed with the ownership of the estate as a whole. Little Abington rectory passed in 1701 to the Perne family and was never owned by the Mortlock family (VCH, Vol. VI. p. 9). It passed into the ownership of Abington Estate about 1909, purchased with the former Jesus College and Lagden acres by J.J. Emerson, Lord of both Great and Little Abington manors. This section contains documents relating to the estate as a whole, and also documents that refer back to the building-up of the estate in 17th and 18th centuries, and forward to the break-up of the estate in the early 20th century.
Date1720-1929
CreatorNameMortlock Bank and Estate
RepositoryCambridgeshire Archives
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