Though originally in Godshill parish, it is now included for the greater part in the boundaries of South Arreton.
The Lisle family owned Rookley Manor under their neighbouring manor of Appleford, and it is first mentioned in 1203 when Walter de Insula granted common pasture in Rookley to Philip of Blackpan.
[1] In 1428 and 1431 Rookley was in the possession of Richard Coke or Cooke, a gentleman of Sussex, who was seised (had ownership) of a quarter fee there, another quarter held in 1346 by William Taunton and others not being answered for in 1428, as it was divided between Walter Veer and Thomas Lisle.
The last Coleman willed the manor after the death of his sister to James Worsley of Stenbury.
Mr. Holmes Leigh, who bought it from Mr. William Ash of Newport, sold it in 1911 to Mr.