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Semley is a village in Sedgehill and Semley civil parish in Wiltshire, England. The village is about north-east of Shaftesbury in neighbouring Dorset. ==Manor== Semley seems to have been part of an estate that King Eadwig granted to the Benedictine Wilton Abbey in AD 955.〔Crowley, Freeman & Stevenson, 1987, pages 66-79〕 The Abbey retained the manor of Semley until the Dissolution of the Monasteries, when it surrendered all its lands to the Crown.〔 In 1541 Henry VIII granted Semley to Sir Edward Bayntun and his wife Lady Isabel, but in 1572 their son Francis restored it to the Crown.〔 In the same year Elizabeth I granted Semley to Matthew Arundell or Wardour Castle, who was knighted in 1574.〔 Sir Matthew's son Thomas Arundell was created Baron Arundell of Wardour in 1605.〔 The Wardour estate has held land at Semley ever since, but between 1806 and 1820 the 9th and 10th Barons sold off of the manor.〔 By 1839 about at Semley remained in the Arundell family.〔 In 1962 Mr. R.J.R. Arundell sold Legatt's Farm and in 1985 he owned about at Semley.〔 Hook Manor is a Jacobean manor house built in 1637-37.〔 It is built of local stone quarried about away at Tisbury.〔 the south porch may have been added in 1655 and the hall had been divided into a smaller room and two passages by 1815.〔 In 1935 the house was remodelled to designs by the architect T. Lawrence Dale, who reunited the hall and added a neighbouring room to enlarge it.〔 Dale also removed the porch, added a staircase and a service wing.〔 John Benett of Pythouse bought the of Semley Manor that the Arundells sold between 1806 and 1820.〔 By 1839 his total estate at Semley amounted to , but by 1847 about of the land he had bought from the Arundells had been re-sold.〔 The bulk of Benett's acquisitions at Semley remained with his heirs until his grandson Vere Fane Benett-Stanford died in 1894 and his widow became married to Charles Thomas-Stanford in 1897.〔 The estate then passed to John Benett's great-grandson John Fane-Benett-Stanford, who died in 1947.〔 In 1952 the estate sold Amberleaze Farm and Glebe Farm.〔 Richard Grosvenor, 2nd Marquess of Westminster had bought Bowmarsh Farm and Hart Hill Farm and in 1847 bought Westwood Farm from John Benett.〔 This gave him a total of about at Semley.〔 This estate descended by the Marquess's daughter Octavia to her husband Sir Michael Shaw-Stewart, 7th Baronet.〔 After the death of the 7th Baronet in 1903 and Lady Octavia in 1921, their son Walter Richard Shaw-Stewart held about at Semley.〔 He then sold off about including Westwood Farm between 1924 and 1927.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Semley」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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