Manor of Kittisford

Kittisford is a historic manor near Wellington in Somerset, England. It is situated on the River Tone, south of the village of Bathealton. The surviving manor house is called Kittisford Barton, situated formerly within the historic parish of Kittisford, now amalgamated into the parish of Stawley. It was built in the late 15th or early 16th century. It is a Grade II* listed building.

The Domesday Book of 1086 lists the manor of Chedesford as held in-chief from King William the Conqueror by Roger Arundel, whose tenant there was a certain William. Immediately before the Norman Conquest of 1066 it had been held by the Saxon Osmund Stramun. The Domesday entry may be translated from Latin as follows:

The descendants of the Domesday Book tenant "William" later assumed the surname de Kittisford, and held this manor till the time of Henry III, when the family died out in the male line. The daughter and heiress of John de Kittisford, the last in the male line, married John de Sydenham, lord of the manor of Sydenham near Bridgwater, Somerset, to whom therefore passed the manor of Kittisford.

The Sydenham family of Sydenham, about 1/4 mile east of the centre of modern Bridgwater, now the site of Bridgwater College, held Kittisford for several generations. The family split into many prominent branches, the senior branch died out in the male line in the 15th century when Sydenham passed via the heiress to the Cave family, then to the Percival family, later Earl of Egmont. The next senior line was seated in the early 15th century at Combe Sydenham in Somerset, of which family was Simon Sydenham (died 1438), Bishop of Chichester, and later inherited the Somerset manors of Orchard Sydenham (later called Orchard Wyndham) and Brympton d'Evercy, which latter remained the seat of the Sydenham baronets, which title was created in 1641.

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