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In the time of Edward the Confessor BARKHAM was in the tenure of Ælmer, who held it of the king. The Domesday Survey records that William I held it in demesne and that
it was assessed at 3 hides. It was possibly granted with Earley to the family of Earley, for the Testa de Nevill gives it as held of the fee of Henry de Earley.

The immediate tenants in the 13th century were a family of Barkham. John de Barkham held the fee under Henry de Earley. He forfeited about 1249, but was apparently restored before 1253, when John, called son of Robert de Barkham, levied a fine of lands in Barkham.

Before 1279 the manor had been acquired by Thomas Cantilupe, Bishop of Hereford, who in that year granted it to his servitor William de Nevill.

Their ancestor, William Neville, was the valet to St. Thomas Cantilupe, the Bishop of Hereford [and Chancellor of England], who sold him the manor in 1279.