Moyles Court, Hampshire
Historical Description
Moyles Court, an old mansion, now a farmhouse, in Ellingham parish, Hants, among wooded hills, 3 miles N of Eingwood. It was the seat of the Lisles, one of whom-Colonel Lisle-was one of the judges on the trial of Charles I.; and it gave shelter to certain fugitives from the field of Sedgemoor at the hand of the colonel's widow, Lady Lisle, who for that act-though herself of undoubted loyalty-was condemned to death at Winchester by Judge Jeffreys. Her story is graphically told in Lord Macauley's " History of England," and is the subject of a fresco in the new palace of Westminster, where she is represented concealing the fugitives. A monument of her is in Ellingham churchyard. Moylgrove or Trewyddel, a parish in Pembrokeshire,on the coast, 4 miles WSW of Cardigan. It has a post and money order office under Cardigan; telegraph office, St Dog-mells. Acreage, 2489; population, 376. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of St David's; gross value, £221. Patron, the Lord Chancellor.
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Hampshire (County Southampton) is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Moyles Court are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)