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Sellack
Herefordshire |
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Sellack
photograph by Will Lewis |
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The Archenfield settlement of
Sellack takes its name from
Saint Tysilio, another form of
which is Suluc (Suluc and Tysilio are both
hypocoristic forms of the name Suliau). In the 860s
Concum, priest of Lann Suluc and Mailseru, priestof
Lann Timoi (Foy), witnessed a gift of land to
Bishop Nudd from a certain Abraham.
Photograph of Sellack
church taken by Alfred Watkins in 1929, courtesy of
Hereford City Library) |
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Sellack church in
1839 |
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From 1291 to 1351 the church was known
as the church of Baysham.
Pope Nicholas the Fourth’s Taxatio, c1291, values the church
of Baysham, with the chapel, at £20 13s 4d a year. The vicar’s
portion was £5. The chapel was, presumably,
Kings Caple.
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The church of
St Tysilio, Sellack
from the north |
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The distinction between the use of the names Sellack and Baysham is unclear. Both
names were in use in 1301 when it was found by Inquisition
that the Chapter of Hereford had acquired lands in Baysham, Selak and Pencoyt.
Inquisition taken at
Hereford 26 May 29th year of the reign of Edward I (1301) by the oath of Robert de Chaundoys ------------.
'Who say the THE DEAN AND CHAPTER of
the Church of Saint Ethelbert of Hereford acquired unto
themselves and their aforesaid church one messuage and 18
acres of land with the appurtenances in Canon’s Moor, before
the publication of the Statute of Mortmain by 30 years and
more, in pure and perpetual alms, in the gift of John de
Brecon, and they are of their proper fee, and they owe no
service therefore: and the premises are worth 4d a year.
Also the said
Dean and Chapter acquired similarly 60 acres of land with the
appurtenances in Baysham and Sellack, 50years before the
statute, in free, pure and perpetual alms, of the gift of Aycrop de la More and David de la ffelde; and they are worth
10s.'
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Baysham
is now the name of a settlement of a few houses within Sellack
parish. The name Sellack seems to be the one normally used
after about 1350 although the
Feudal Aids for 1428 mention 'the church of Baysham, with the
chapel'.
The Bishop’s Registers for 1334 state that in the parish of
Sellack are the townships of Baysham, Caircaradoc
[Caradoc], Grava [the Grove] and Penkelli
[Pengethley]. At that time the
township of Strangford was in the parish of Fownhope where it
remained until the 1880s.
Presentations (appointment of
priests) to Selleck are recorded from 1352; before that the
presentations are to Baysham - see below.
presentations to Sellack are as
follows:- |
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1352
1362
1363
1369
1390
1391
1410
1413
14…..
1416 |
Roger de Sellake. By the Dean and
Chapter
William de Berkford. The like
William Martyn
William Rolf
Lawrence Tughyn
Hugh Willenhale
Roger Heynes
Hugh Donne alias Eynford
Simon Phelyps
John Ledge |
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Baysham
Listed under a heading which says
that 'the villages and lands (villæ vel terræ) below
are in Archenfield', the manor of Baysham was part of the
lands of the king. It was held of the king by William, son of
Norman, and of him by a certain Walter. Before 1066 it had
been held by Merwin from Edward the Confessor. |
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Strangford |
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Although not mentioned by name
in Domesday, Strangford, to the east of Baysham, may have had
the name Etone. There is an entry for a place of this name in
the hundred of Sulcet which as a hundred name, appears
nowhere else and may represent Sellack as an area. In the
Herefordshire Domesday of the 1160s Etone is marked Strangef',
and it may be that a place originally called Etone was later
named Strangford - from the ford across the strong current of
the Wye there. |
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Held by Hugh d'Asne at
Domesday there was half a hide, two men with two ploughs who,
in the Welsh form, paid 2 sesters of honey. Like other
Archenfield places it paid no tax.
In Edward the Confessor's
reign Strangford was held of Thorkell the White by one Alric.
Thorkell was lord of Fownhope and Strangford was in Fownhope
parish until the 1880s.
Strangford had a chapel in the
Deanery of Ross in 1543 when it contributed nothing - nihil
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Caradoc Court
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Click for Caradoc Court and Farm |
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Pengethley
A British name meaning 'place at
the head of the grove', this was Penkelle in 1334. The
manor house of Pengethley is now a
hotel.
The North aisle of Sellack church is the
Pengethley chapel.
A previously unknown
Romano-British site has been found at
Upper
Pengethley Farm during the LOWV project.
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The interior
of the long demolished hall at Pengethley
Image from A History of the Mansion and
Manors of Herefordshire, Rev Charles Robinson, 1872 |
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