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December 30, 2025

Axholme Before Vermuyden – The Land and Its Lords – Manor of Epworth

Before the Dutch engineer Cornelius Vermuyden arrived in the 1620s, the Isle of Axholme was a patchwork of manors, commons, and ancient rights. The main manors in the Isle of Axholme were Epworth, in the centre, and Crowle in the North. Lords of manors held sway over land and law, but when titles lapsed or estates were forfeited, ownership reverted...

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December 30, 2025

Rights and Protections for Isle of Axholme Tenants – Summary of the Mowbray Charter of 1360.

The tenants of the Isle of Axholme petitioned their lord, Sir John Mowbray, to resolve disputes caused by his officials. In response, Mowbray granted a series of rights and protections to all tenants and residents of the Isle, to apply permanently to them and their heirs. Key points granted: The charter was sealed by both parties at Epworth on 1...

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December 30, 2025

Mowbray Deed of 1360 – from Peck’s Isle of Axholme (1815)

A true copy of the ancient deed of JOHN DE MOWBRAY, some time Lord of the ISLE of AXHOLME, and the Honour of BREMBER, made to the Freeholders there, after he had made an approvement to himself of some of the Wastes within the Manor of EPWORTH in the said Isle; and is now translated out of French into English...

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Axholme Before Vermuyden – The Land and Its Lords – Manor of Epworth

Rights and Protections for Isle of Axholme Tenants – Summary of the Mowbray Charter of 1360.

Mowbray Deed of 1360 – from Peck’s Isle of Axholme (1815)

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