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====Mowbrays==== In 1279 the heirs of a William de Beauchamp of [[Bedford]] held {{convert|30|acre}} at Ickleton of West Dereham Abbey (see above). This descended by a female heir to the Mowbray family, and when [[John de Mowbray, 4th Baron Mowbray]] died in 1368 is estate included 30 acres at Ickleton held of the Honour of Boulogne. He left the estate to his son [[Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk|Thomas]], who in 1397 was created 1st [[Duke of Norfolk]]. The manor stayed in the Mowbray family until [[John de Mowbray, 4th Duke of Norfolk]] and his wife [[Elizabeth de Mowbray, Duchess of Norfolk|Elizabeth]] conveyed it to [[feoffee]]s in 1469.<ref name=VCH/> The estate continued to be called Mowbrays manor, and in the 1540s it was among lands bought by an Ickleton [[yeoman]], John Crudd, who enlarged the estate. Mowbrays descended in the Crudd family and its heirs the Hanchett, Warner and Brooke families. A Mrs Brooke held more than {{convert|280|acre}} in 1810 and died leaving the estate to her children in 1812. They were allocated {{convert|160|acre}} south of the village in the inclosure of 1814, which they then sold to Clare College, Cambridge in 1819. The college still owned the farm in 1972.<ref name=VCH/> Mowbrays seems to have had no manor house in the 14th century but there may have been one in 1438. The present house called Mowbrays in Church Street is a late 15th- or early 16th-century timber-framed, [[Jettying|jettied]],<ref name=EH-Mowbrays>{{NHLE |num= 1330960 |desc=Mowbrays |date=22 November 1967 |accessdate=1 September 2013}}</ref> gabled<ref name=Pevsner112/> building, which originally had a central hall and two cross-wings.<ref name=VCH/> Late in the 17th century it was raised to two storeys and a west wing was added. Red-brick diagonal chimneystacks were built, which have the date 1690 scratched on them.<ref name=EH-Mowbrays/> The back of the house is decorated with pargetting.<ref name=Pevsner112/> Mowbrays is a [[Listed building#Categories of listed building|Grade II* listed building]].<ref name=EH-Mowbrays/> [[File:Queensland State Archives 2954 Portrait of The Honourable Sir Robert George Wyndham Herbert Premier of Queensland c 1862.png|thumb|Sir [[Robert Herbert]], Lord of the Manor 1859β1905, encouraged many of Ickleton's young men to emigrate to [[Queensland]]]]
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