OTHER ESTATES.
In 1086, there were in Isleworth manor a Frenchman or Frenchmen and one
Englishman who held 4 hides between them. (fn. 48) Part
of their estates may have been connected with some
of the later sub-manors, but there were always a
number of freeholds, some of a fair size, in the
parishes of Isleworth and Heston. (fn. 49) Like most of the
estates which later claimed the title of manor, (fn. 50) some
of the estates which did not do so may have lain in
the more distant parts of the manor, by the Brent,
round Osterley and North Hyde, (fn. 51) or on the edges
of the heath, and may have begun as assarts. (fn. 52) From
the 16th century on, a number of houses in Isleworth
were owned or leased by persons of importance:
most of these estates deserve attention rather by
virtue of their owners, or the character of the houses
and pleasure-grounds belonging to them, than for
their size. (fn. 53) About a third of Heston (c. 1,300 a.) was
covered in 1818 by the lands of the Earl of Jersey,
the Duke of Northumberland, and the owner of
Hounslow manor, and by the allotments for tithe
made to the Bishop of London and the vicar. There
were three other estates, whether free or copyhold,
of over 100 acres, and eight of about 40 acres or
more. (fn. 54) At Isleworth in 1840, apart from the Duke of
Northumberland and Lord Jersey, together holding
about 1,000 acres, which with the barracks and exercise ground (c. 270 a.) accounted for over a third of
the parish, four persons owned over 100 acres and ten
held about 40 or more. (fn. 55)
Among the estates which may be separately mentioned was North Hyde Hall, which had some 60
acres in Heston and Norwood attached to it in the
15th century: (fn. 56) one of the larger estates in the 19th
centred on North Hyde Farm. (fn. 57) The only religious
houses outside Heston and Isleworth which owned
property there were St. Valéry, holding the rectory,
St. Giles's Hospital without London with services in
Heston, St. Radegund Abbey, Bradsole (Kent), with
the overlordship of a mill, Holy Trinity Priory at
Aldgate, with 26 acres in Heston during the 13th
century, (fn. 58) and the Templars, whose manor of Cranford was granted common rights on the heath. (fn. 59) The
lands of All Angels' Chapel at Brentford End caused
some dissension in the 17th century. Osterley and
Wyke manors had been granted away, but disputes
arose over the ownership of the chapel site and other
property in and around Brentford End itself. These
'chapel lands' were included in the 16th-century
leases of Isleworth manor, the latest of which was
still current when the Earl of Northumberland received the freehold of the manor in 1604. (fn. 60) This
grant expressly excluded the chapel lands but did not
specify what they were. As a result, Sir Richard
Wynn, the owner of Wyke manor and of the house
later called Little Syon, who bought the former All
Angels' property in 1640, (fn. 61) sued the Earl of Northumberland for various lands, while Northumberland
counterclaimed for Wyyn's holdings. The result of
the suits is not known, but it is clear that a good deal
of the All Angels' lands had become very much confused with the Isleworth demesne, and that parts
even seem to have been treated as copyhold. (fn. 62)
Several manors in adjoining parishes had appurtenant lands within Heston and Isleworth. Twickenham, itself within the bounds of Isleworth manor,
had about 9 acres of copyhold in Isleworth in 1818,
and about ½ acre in Heston. (fn. 63) Lands in Isleworth
and Heston were conveyed with Hanworth and Feltham manors in 1670. (fn. 64) Cranford manor apparently
had appurtenances in Heston in the 16th and 17th
centuries, (fn. 65) though these may have been only the
common rights first granted to the Templars. The
Dowager Countess of Berkeley, the owner of Cranford, held 18 acres there in 1818. (fn. 66) One or two small
pieces of land on the west of the Brent seem to have
been claimed by Boston manor in the 17th century. (fn. 67)
In 1840 its owner held nearly 200 acres in Isleworth. (fn. 68)