Culham Manor

The Manor House, originally a medieval barn held of the Abbots of Abingdon was also built or rebuilt around this period.

[2] It was used as a rest house until the Dissolution of the Monasteries, in 1538 In 1468, a member of the Culham-based family of Marshall was a suspect in a Lancastrian plot.

Robin Marshall, "late of Culham", was one of 15 suspects pardoned in July 1468 after dubious revelations by the spy John Cornelius, servant of Sir Robert Whittingham.

[2] During the dissolution of Abingdon Abbey in 1545, Culham manor house was seized by Henry VIII and sold to a William Bury, a London wool trader and whose family had been Merchants of the Staple at Calais, in exchange for land in the Isle of Sheppey.

His male line ended with George Bury in 1662 whose daughter Sarah (1650–80) married Sir Cecil Bishopp, 4th Baronet, of Parham Park, Sussex in 1666.