Editing Ickleton (section)

====Hovells====
By 1183 Ralph Brito held land at Ickleton of the Honour of Boulogne.<ref name=VCH/> By 1221 it had passed by marriage to Robert Hovel, whose bride was the daughter of Ralph's heir Thomas Brito. In 1222 a William Brito released a [[carucate]] of land to Hovel. The small estate passed to a Ralph Hovel and came to be called Hovells Manor. In 1253 Ralph Hovel confirmed a grant of {{convert|140|acre}} of land, apparently Hovells Manor at Ickleton, to the [[Cistercians|Cistercian]] [[Tilty Abbey]] in Essex. Certainly Tilty Abbey held Hovells Manor by 1279, when the Hundred Rolls recorded that it covered {{convert|190|acre}}. Under the [[Feudalism|feudal]] system Tilty Abbey held the estate of Robert Hovel, who in turn held it of the Honour of Boulogne.<ref name=VCH/>

The present Hovells house in Frogge Street was the manor house.<ref name=EH-Hovells>{{NHLE |num= 1165100 |desc=The Hovells |date=17 December 1986 |accessdate=1 September 2013}}</ref> It is an early 16th-century [[Timber framing#British tradition|timber-framed]] building, altered and extended in the 17th century.<ref name=EH-Hovells/>