Landguard Manor

Landguard Manor
Location within Isle of Wight
General information
Town or city	Shanklin, Isle of Wight
Country	England
Coordinates	50°38′18″N 1°10′53″W / 50.63833°N 1.18139°W / 50.63833; -1.18139Coordinates: 50°38′18″N 1°10′53″W / 50.63833°N 1.18139°W / 50.63833; -1.18139

Landguard Manor (or Languard) is a manor house in Shanklin on the Isle of Wight, England. Mentioned in the Domesday Book, over the centuries it was home to numerous notable gentlemen. It is a Grade II listed building. One of the finest known portraits by Sir Thomas Lawrence, English portrait painter and president of the Royal Academy, is located in its drawing room.

The house is located off Landguard Manor Road, about 0.66 miles (1.06 km) north of the town centre. Nearby is Landguard Camping Park, Lake Common, and well as the Shanklin Cemetery which contains the HMS Eurydice memorial honouring the sailors who died in the area in 1878 during one of Britain's worst peace-time naval disasters.

The Landguard estate was recorded in the Domesday Book.

Landguard is an ancient manor house that later became a farmhouse before another manor home was built at the site in the mid to late 19th century.

Landguard is perhaps to be identified with Levegarestun, which was held of the Confessor as an alod by two freemen, and belonged in 1086 to William son of Azor. It was held of the honour of Carisbrooke Castle in the 13th and 14th centuries, but was said in 1582 to be held of the manor of Wolverton. In the latter half of the 13th century it was held with Wolverton by Robert de Glamorgan, but had perhaps previously been held by Geoffrey Tichborne, who had given land in Landguard to the chaplains of Limerstone. It appears to have passed with Wolverton until 1431. At the beginning of the 16th century the manors of Landguard and Watchingwell were held by Thomas Baker and his wife Joan, and came to their daughter Joan wife of John Earlisman, on whose death in 1542 the property was divided between her two daughters, Landguard being assigned to Jane, the wife of Edward Hungerford. After her husband's death Jane married Edward Moore, and the two in June 1572 granted 'the site and capital messuage and farm-place of the manor of Langorde' to Richard Cooke of Chale for the term of 100 years. Edward Moore and Jane remained in possession until 1574, but they probably left no issue, as the manor passed to John Cheke, probably son of Jane's sister Joan Cheke. John died seised of it, then called the manor of North Landguard, in 1582, leaving a son Edward. This estate afterwards seems to have passed to Sir John Richards, who died seised of it in 1626, leaving a son John.