Land of the king... 2M. In Warran Lagman and Carle had 8 carucates for geld. Land for 4 ploughs 60s. Land of the king's thegns In Warran Chilbert has 1 carucate of land of the king which renders 10s. Land for half a plough. The Summary... In Warron the king 9 carucates.The "2 M" in the first line signifies that the village had two manors. It is not known who owned either of them.
Certainly one of the manor houses was owned by a family named Chamberlain as early as 1242; the Percy family may have held land at the same time. It is known that by 1254, the Percies had acquired all of the village. By 1367, the Percy manor reverted back to the main Percy line -- the Dukes of Northumberland and, by the way, the family of Shakespeare's Hotspur in Henry IV, Pt.1 . By 1403, the village was part of an exchange of lands between the Percies and Hiltons. In 1573 it was sold to Matthew Hutton, later Archbishop of York.
It was during the time when the Hiltons owned the village that the final depopulations occured.
The Manor House sites are outlined in blue on the map below.
Ken Tompkins