Pendley has accumulated over 1,700 years of history - from: Ancient
Britons and Romans, who settled this area at least some 1,700 years
ago, to England's last great heathen King, the warlike and
impressively vigorous, Penda, who seems to have given his name to
this area, sired a child when he was aged 77 and died, in battle,
aged 80; The Anglo-Saxon nun, Eddeva, via William the Conqueror's
half-brother, Robert, to Sir Robert Whittingham, who demolished
mediaeval Pendley and built the first manor house in its place; The
Verneys and the sixteenth century's changeable politics to the
Andersons, who facilitated the initially illicit union which was to
produce US President, George Washington; The Harcourts who, in the
end, didn't care about Pendley and let the old manor house be
destroyed, and the trade-wealthy Grouts with their illegitimate
heir, Lawrence Williams, who secured his family's fortune by
marrying into his own family and then buying Pendley; His son, JG -
supervisor of the building of the new manor house, a successful
agriculturalist who also shepherded his brother's children and, so,
secured the future of Pendley for a century - to Dorian, the last
of the Williams' line at Pendley; The short-term ownership of David
Evans and the Grass Roots Partnership to the current owner, Vinu
Bhattessa, who's turned the place into a hotel and conference
centre. Along the way, Pendley Manor acquired some peacocks, a
famous Shakespeare Festival, a couple of ghosts and a host of
stories. Many of these are unrecorded but some, at least, have come
down to us through the ages - and these are told within this book.
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