Wolf Hall and Bromham House

Those of you who have been watching Wolf Hall will have heard that Henry VIII would visit Bromham House when he was in the West Country. The mansion house of the Lords of Bromham manor stood a mile east of Bromham Parish Church and is now the site of Bromham House Farm. What the house was like in the 13th Century at the time when Sir Johne de la Roche was lord of the manor we shall never know, but having been built and rebuilt through the years it would have been a quite splendid edifice by the time of Sir Walter (who was High Sheriff of Wiltshire) and Lady Beauchamp at the beginning of the 15th century.

Following through the female line the next lords of the manor were the Bayntons. Sir Edward Baynton became vice chamberlain to Henry the VIII’s queens and in 1535 the King and Queen stayed at Bromham house from August 27 until the 3rd of September. Sir John Seymour followed as next host at Wolf Hall which was near Marlborough.

(An extract from an article by Bromham historian Dennis Powney)

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Wolf Hall Manor. The site of the legendary Tudor manor is now home to the Binney family – three brothers and a sister who were left it by their mum in 2013. They live where Wolf Hall, home to Henry VIII's third wife, Jane Seymour, once stood – even though her famous house is now gone. But ancient buildings where Henry's home once sat still remain