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Broadmead was the home in 1250 of Peter de Winton, the rector of St Firmins. His parsonage was built with four large oaks from Salcey Forest and had 18 rooms with 2 great barns. Peter was a clerk of the royal household and keeper of the wardrobe to Henry III, which no doubt assisted him in obtaining oaks from the royal forest for his home. Only a large wooden barn within the moat of Manor Farm occupies the Great Manor of Great Crawley.
A dispute over land ownership at the time, between King David of Scotland and the Abbott of Ramsey, resulted in the land being held by King David's steward, Robert Filiot, a powerful Northamptonshire baron. In 1720 William Lowndes acquired Filliol Manor and the remaining building which had walls 22 feet thick. It was demolished in the 1950s.
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