A brief 1000 year history of Dukes Place!

The recent building works

From Knights Hospitallers to Haynes'

In 1522 the Prior of St John gave a lease to Friar Bell for the Manor of Peckham for the annual amount of £13 6s.
On the 22nd July during the 33rd year of the reign of Henry VII the house was sold to Sir Robert Southwell for £498.
On the 3rd May during the 35th year of Henry VIII Sir Robert Southwell sells the house to Sir Edmund Walsingham and his wife Lady Anne Grey for an amount of £748.
The house remains in the Walsingham family until it is alienated in the latter part of Charles I reign with Yokes Place, later to be called Yotes Court.
The house is later sold with Yotes Court to the Rt Hon George Bing, Viscount Torrington. The house is still owned by the Torringtons in 1841 and what used to be the Manor of Peckham is now called Duck Place and is lived in by farm workers H Goldsmith & Gilbert.,
Sometime in the late 1800s the house's name is changed to Dukes Place in order to reinstate some Victorian grandeur! In the early 20th Century it is bought for £3000 by the father of Richard and Harry Wooldridge, who still farm in West Peckham, and then sold after the war ,to a film producer. Edna Linell an Australian opera singer kept the house from the 60's and the Haynes' family bought it in 1999. They have spent an age restoring the Grade 1 listed Ancient Monument to its former glories.

In 1084 Odo was in disgrace and all his lands were confiscated by the Crown including the "Manor of Little Pecheham."
At the time of King John (1167-1216) the Manor was held in "sergeantry" by a family called Bendeville. The house was valued at £15.
The Manor was then owned from around 1250-1293 by John de Peckham; 1293-1305 by Robert Scarlet; 1305-1318 by Adam at Broke; and following his death from 1318-1332 by his wife Dionisia. The house was then passed on to Elizabeth de Burgh, the wife of the Duke of Clarence, one of the sons of Edward III and it is from this ownership that the house gets its current name of "Dukes Place".
Sometime during the 14th century the house was bought by the Colepeper family and it was Sir John Colpeper who gave it to the Knights Hospitallers of St John of Jerusalem in 1408.

Before the Norman conquests the land on which Dukes Place stands was owned by Earl Leofwine, King Harold's brother. After the Battle of Hastings William the Conqueror gave this land to his half brother Odo, Bishop of Bayeaux who he made Earl of Kent.