Catalogue description PIDFORD AND LONGLANDS, P. ARRETON

Also here are deeds to a single field on the east side of the road from Newport to Rookley, bought by Henry Worsley's elder brother Thomas in 1784, a few years before his death. The deeds are grouped in one bundle but as two sets; the first consists of two items for Pidford, one an early out-conveyance, and the second, of three items, relating to Longlands.

There are two leases, JER/HBY/89, but no surveys though the properties can be quite accurately identified from the written descriptions given here.

Pidford Farm, like Stone Gillmans, was anciently part of the Homage of North Godshill. It was sold in 1724 by Sir Robert Worsley of Appuldurcombe to John Worsley of Gatcombe, clerk, grandfather of Henry Worsley, and thus forms the core of the second, smaller, estate of the Pidford Worsleys.