Aldsworth

In the mid-twelfth century William, Earl of Arundel, granted Aldsworth to Ralph de la Roche for the render of a huntingspear at Martinmas. A rental obligation was later established as one boar-spear (borsper) or 6d. In 1243 a half fee in Aldsworth was assigned to John FitzAlan on the division of the d'Aubigny estates. Aldsworth was held as a quarter or half knight's fee of the honour of Arundel.

In 1292 Richard de la Roche transferred the manor to John Dawtrey and Cecily his wife. Cecily Dawtrey appears as holder in 1327. The manor descended through the Dawtrey family. Sir John Dawtrey died in 1542, having settled it upon his son Sir John, who died in 1549. Sir John's heir Richard was described as "an idiot" and died in February 1534, holding the manor "of the Earl of Arundel as of his manor of Stansted." Half-brother William Dawtrey eventually controlled Aldsworth.

In 1624 William's granddaughter Anne and her husband Thomas Stanley of Fittleworth received the manor. In 1633 Francis Dawtrey and John Stanley sold Aldsworth to Philip Jermyn. It then followed the descent of Lordington. In 1661 Alexander Jermyn sold both Aldsworth and Lordington to Lord Lumley. From 1661 Aldsworth followed the main Westbourne descent through the Lumleys, earls of Scarborough, Richard Barwell, Lewis Way, Charles Dixon, and George Wilder, descending with Stansted in Stoughton.