Wargrave Manor of the Bishops of Winchester

In the civil parish of Wargrave. In the historic county of Berkshire (Modern Authority of Wokingham, 1974 county of Berkshire).

Residential manor of the bishops of Winchester. Wargrave was documented in Domesday as a royal manor. It was granted to the Bishops of Winchester in 1199, who owned it until C16. A survey of 1607 states that the manor house was near the Church, where there was "an ancient house with many necessary rooms such as hall, parlour etc" A 1634 glebe terrier adds that land round the Church was "tythe or gardenage ... where anciently houses or orchards have stood, but converted to pasturage or tillage."

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is SU782784

Air Photo from Air Photo and general mapping	1st edition OS Map from Mid to late 19th century maps
Modern Map from Landscape form and features	Modern Map from General location and route planning
Geograph British Isles occasionally has photos of the site and will usually give an idea of the surrounding landscape.

Sources of information, references and further reading

This site's English Heritage (PastScape) Defra or Monument number is 244756 [manor history]
Further information may be available from the holder of the county Historic Environment Record. In particular 'grey' literature, such as watching brief reports, held by H.E.R.s is often poorly referenced and is unlikely to be recorded in this website, or elsewhere.

• Books
  • Thompson, M.W., 1998, Medieval bishops' houses in England and Wales (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing) p11-12, 186
    Page, Wm and Ditchfield, P.H. (eds), 1923, VCH Berkshire Vol3 p191-97 http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=43203
• Other sources, 'grey' literature, unpublished works, etc. (Theses, in-house reports and other such)
  • Payne, Naomi, 2003, The medieval residences of the bishops of Bath and Wells, and Salisbury (PhD Thesis University of Bristol) Appendix B: List of Medieval Bishop's Palaces in England and Wales [available via http://ethos.bl.uk ]