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Timperley Hall was a moated manor house in Timperley, Greater Manchester, England, first recorded in 1560, but almost certainly built to replace an earlier medieval structure. Very little remains of the 16th-century hall, which is not shown on the Tithe map of 1838. [ 1 ]
In 1454 the manor was purchased by John Timperley. In August 1720 the hall was bought by Richard Powys, a Principal Clerk to The Treasury, and the Powys family lived there for nearly 30 years, after which it was sold to the lawyer Richard Lloyd, a future solicitor-general, and passed down through his descendants until the early 1900s.
Timperley was formerly a township and chapelry in the parish of Bowdon, [6] in 1866 Timperley became a separate civil parish, Timperley Parish Council was established in 1894 and it became part of Bucklow Rural District, on 1 April 1936 the parish was abolished and merged with Altrincham, Hale and Sale. [7]
The Timperley family, after whom the Timperley Estate was named, fell on hard times and lost most of their land as a penalty for helping to defend King's Lynn against Oliver Cromwell's troops in 1643. Colkirk Hall was subsequently bought by Marquis Townshend, since when it has been occupied as a farm house.
The Barons de Masci also had control over the manors of Dunham, Bowdon, Hale, Partington, and Timperley. [8] In the 13th century, the Massey Family (Baron Hamon deMascy) was the main landlord in Northenden. Through marriage, the Massey's land in Baguley passed to the Baguley Family, who built Baguley Hall in the 14th century. [9]
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The manor's history can be traced to the Domesday Book of 1086. [3] In 1449, John Timperley, steward to Henry VI, was given permission to enclose the land and, two years later, the manor was granted the privilege of sending two members to Parliament, which it retained, as a "rotten borough", until the Parliamentary reform of 1832.