WENNINGTON, which was included with Ripton in the early grants to Ramsey Abbey, and descended throughout with the manor of Abbots Ripton, does not appear to have held separate manorial courts. After the Dissolution, however, it is frequently called the 'manor' of Wennington.
ESTHORPE is also called a manor after the Dissolution, but early references point to its having been actually part of the chief manor. Its position may apparently be found by the close called 'Eastroppe,' or the closes in Esthorpe called le Bussheclose and le Mote close, referred to when Abbots Ripton was still under the abbey rule.
The manor of RUSSHEBYES probably originated in the land held of
the abbot by the family of that name in the 13th century. Agnes,
widow of William de Rouceby, quitclaimed a small parcel of land to
Richard de Ripton in 1232; in 1362 William de Risceby, king's
yeoman, received a grant of free warren in the demesne lands of his
manor of Abbots Ripton. In 1440 the 'manor of Abbotts Ripton called
Russhebyes,' which included 220 acres of land, was held by two
heiresses, Julia Parker and Eleanor Thornton, who, with Eleanor's
husband, conveyed it in that year to John Cullar and others. John
died in 1472, and his widow was holding the manor in the following
year, but afterwards sold to Thomas Burton. John Burton his son
inherited, but the manor became the subject of a suit in Chancery,
and was sold to Anthony Hansert in 1529. The latter appears to have
conveyed to Oliver Leder, who sold in 1535 to Richard Cromwell for
400 marks. In 1555 Thomas Bowles, Anne his wife, and his son Thomas
conveyed the manor to Robert Rowley and Oliver St. John. The manor
was held by the St. John family with the chief manor (q.v.) in 1586,
and afterwards followed the same descent.
A messuage called COLLESPLACE, with fifty acres in a close called
COLLESTOKKYNGE and a parcel of land called LONDONESLANDE, was
granted in 1448 to the Warden and Fellows of Trinity Hall,
Cambridge.
Victoria County History - Huntingdonshire Published 1932
