More information : [Marginal] Totteridge Manor House "The original site
of the manor is now a farm-house in the tenure of Mr. Young".
(See Herts 45 SE 12 - Totteridge Park).
On the original site of the manor is a mansion lately [between
1796 and 1811] erected by the present proprietor John Jennings.
In 1357 a commission issued for a survey of the manor house of
Totteridge and its outbuildings.
The return shows that Totteridge must at that time have been
one of the episcopal residences of the Bishop of Ely, for not
only was there a chapel adjoining the great hall being the
bishop's private chapel and not the parish chapel (referred to
elsewhere) but there were separate chambers for knights,
esquires and clerks, so that the bishops must have been
accustomed to come there with considerable retinues.
In 1305 Edward I seems to have stopped at Totteridge. The manor
remained after the Dissolution in the Bishop's lands till 1562,
when it was acquired by Queen Elizabeth in an exchange of lands
with Ely.
The manor passed through many hands until in 1748 the property
passed from Henry, son of James, Duke of Chandos (d. 1744),
to Sir William Lee of Hartwell, Bucks, Chief Justice of the
King's Bench. [In 1748 Sir Wm. Lee was living at Totteridge
Park see HERTS 45 SE 12]
Enquiries made at Manor House, Totteridge, (HERTS 45 SE 14)
revealed that this is considered to have been originally no
more than the Manor House Farm. Mr. and Mrs. Redding, owners,
residents in Totteridge for some 40 years, say that the site of
the original manor-house is not now known.
Local enquiries as to the site proved quite negative and local
library research was equally fruitless.
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