None of these settlements (except West Tofts) are shown on modern maps but are simply replaced by "Danger Area" in red capital letters.

[5] The ancient manor house was rebuilt in 1803 by the Petre family in the Georgian style and on a grand scale, was sold with the large estate in 1904 and was finally demolished by the army in 1946, having suffered major damage from military training exercises and shelling.

In the early 21st century the remains of the manor house were described as follows: "a grassy platform of raised ground and beside a short line of dilapidated stone steps.

"[citation needed] The Domesday Book of 1086 records two manors at this location, one held by Hugh de Montfort and the other by Roger, son of Renard.

In the 3rd year of King Edward I's reign Simon de Nevyle was lord, and had the assize of bread and beer of his tenants, and was patron of the church.

In the years 1349 and 1357, William de Hedersete was lord and patron, but soon after, it was in the hands of Richard Gegge of Saham Toney, who presented to the church in 1367.

a fine was levied between Thomas Spring, and others, querents, and Margaret Austeyn widow, defendant, of this manor, with lands in Stanford and Linford; and in Michaelmas term, in the 23d of the said King, another fine was levied between Thomas Spring and others, querents, and Hugh Coo, and Ann his wife, defendants, which Ann was daughter of John Austeyn, and Margaret his wife.

[28] His second wife Susan Alington, a daughter of Sir Giles Alington of Horseheath, Cambridgeshire, survived him and remarried to Isaac Appleton[6] (1606–61), of Holbrook Hall, Little Waldingfield, Suffolk, a Member of Parliament for Sudbury in Suffolk in 1661,[29] who resided at Buckenham Tofts until the second year of the reign of King Charles II,[6] in which he died intestate after which his estates were divided between his three sisters.

[31] Vincent's house was still standing in 1738, when Blomefield commented on it as follows: It was surrounded by walled formal gardens, typical of the period, as shown on the map of 1700.

The grounds included a canal, a garden building (possibly incorporating the remnant of the mediaeval parish church), parterres and topiary.

[40] "Samuel Vincent of Buckingham House in Norfolk, Esquire" bore arms: Azure, three quatrefoils argent, as recorded in Essay to Heraldry by Richard Blome, published in 1684.

He was the eldest son of Henry II Partridge (1636–1670) of Lowbrooke in the parish of Bray, Berkshire, Sheriff of Berkshire in 1670,[43] by his wife Joanna Jaques, a daughter and co-heiress of Robert Jaques of Elmestone in Kent, Alderman of the City of London and Sheriff of Kent in 1669, by his wife Joanna Foy, daughter and heiress of William Foy.

[45] He purchased the manor of Lowbrooke as property sequestrated by Parliament from Sir William Englefield[46] of Catterington, in the County of Southampton, a recusant who had failed to pay his composition.

He married, firstly, in 1701 to 15-year-old[47] Elizabeth Holder (d.1703), only daughter and sole heiress of Thomas Holder of Northwold in Norfolk (about 7 miles north-west of Buckenham Tofts) (by his wife Bridget Graves, a daughter of the antiquary Richard Graves (1677–1729),[48] of Mickleton, Gloucestershire[49]) who died 2 years later aged 17, by whom he had no issue, but from whom he managed nevertheless to inherit Northwold.

[42] Henry III's mural monument survives in St Mary's Church, West Tofts, as does one to his fifth daughter Elizabeth Partridge (1721–1754), wife of Rev.

He was a Bencher of the Middle Temple and Recorder of Lynn, as is stated on his monument[52] in St George's Church, Methwold (2 miles south-west of Northwold).

[citation needed] He was resident at Buckenham Tofts in 1738, at the time Blomefield published his Essay Towards A Topographical History of the County of Norfolk.

His will dated 1745, in which he calls himself "Philip Howard of Buckenham House in the County of Norfolk", directed his body "to be interred at the family burying place at Arundel Church in Sussex after as private and decent manner as possible",[59] signifying the Collegiate Church of the Holy Trinity, now known as the Fitzalan Chapel, next to the family seat of Arundel Castle.

In 1796 Nathaniel Kent wrote:[68] In 1790 the parliamentary constituency of Thetford, in which Buckenham Tofts lay, was a rotten borough controlled by the two largest local landowners, the 4th Duke of Grafton, who was also the Recorder, and the 9th Baron Petre, disbarred from serving in public office due to his religion.

[72] The 1st Baronet was born at Larkbeare House near Exeter in Devon, 3rd son of Johann Baring (1697–1748), a German cloth merchant who had settled in England, by his English wife Elizabeth Vowler.

In 1869 his mother the newly widowed Hortense (Lady Ashburton) sold Buckenham Tofts to William Amhurst Tyssen-Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst of Hackney.

[citation needed] The latter's great-grandson Francis John Tyssen (d. 1781) left the reversion of his estate to his illegitimate daughter Mary (d. 1800) wife of Capt.

[79] In 1906 he was ruined by a fraud perpetrated by Charles Cheston[80] his solicitor and land agent in Hackney who had managed the construction of much of Dalston and Stoke Newington on his behalf and was a trustee and treasurer of the East London Hospital for Children.

Lord Amherst was forced to sell a large part of his remaining assets to cover the loss[citation needed] and the subsequent law-suit he was subjected to by his mother's family the Fountaines of Narford Hall in Norfolk, whose trustee he was.

[82] The 1st Baron died in 1909, of apoplexy probably caused by his financial problems, six weeks after the first auction of his art collection by Sotheby's, his probate valuing his net assets at just £341.

[83] He was buried at Didlington, and having died without a male heir, he left six daughters, of whom the eldest was Mary Tyssen-Amherst (1857–1919), who succeeded to his title by special remainder.

In 1910 Mary sold Didlington Hall to Colonel Herbert Francis Smith and moved back to their more modest house at Foulden.

[citation needed] Blomefield (1738) commented: "The Church has been so long demolished, that the very site of it is not known; it is said to be about the upper end of the canal in the gardens, near the garden-house; it was dedicated to St. Andrew, and there was in it the image of our Lady, as appears from an old will that I have seen, wherein a legacy was given to repair her perke" (a pedestal and niche that she stood in).