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Message: Emoticon Listing HTML Help	[quote]From Whites Directory 1857 "The manor of Shipley (sapeloi) at the time of the Domesday survey was held byMalgar under Gilbert de Grand by whom it was given to Sir Robert de Muskham whose great grandson of the same name conveyed it to Sir Robert de Vavasour whose heiress conveyed it to the Strelleys who were in possession of it in 1330. Sir Anthony died, seized of it, in 1591. Sir Phillip Strelley, his son, devised Shipley to be sold for the payment of his debts. Nicholas, son of Sir Phillip, was the last of this elder branch of the Strelleys. In the reign of Charles the second, Shipley was the property of Sir Edward Leehe, Kt, a Master in Chancery, from whom it passed by successive female heirs to the families of Miller and Mundy." I know the local tale of the ghost of Squire Mundy being seen riding his black horse through (what is now) Shipley Country Park late at night, especially when the fog is lingering over Osbornes Pond and Mapperley Res! Many's the time I've walked home through there in the dark and in the fog-hoping I'd see him-so I could ask for a lift on his steed-but have never seen him-not even when inebriated!!!!We live in hope![/quote]
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Shipley History
replied on: 12/18/2004 10:43:51 PM

From Whites Directory 1857
"The manor of Shipley (sapeloi) at the time of the Domesday survey was held byMalgar under Gilbert de Grand by whom it was given to Sir Robert de Muskham whose great grandson of the same name conveyed it to Sir Robert de Vavasour whose heiress conveyed it to the Strelleys who were in possession of it in 1330. Sir Anthony died, seized of it, in 1591. Sir Phillip Strelley, his son, devised Shipley to be sold for the payment of his debts. Nicholas, son of Sir Phillip, was the last of this elder branch of the Strelleys. In the reign of Charles the second, Shipley was the property of Sir Edward Leehe, Kt, a Master in Chancery, from whom it passed by successive female heirs to the families of Miller and Mundy."
I know the local tale of the ghost of Squire Mundy being seen riding his black horse through (what is now) Shipley Country Park late at night, especially when the fog is lingering over Osbornes Pond and Mapperley Res! Many's the time I've walked home through there in the dark and in the fog-hoping I'd see him-so I could ask for a lift on his steed-but have never seen him-not even when inebriated!!!!We live in hope!

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