The manor of POLLING (Pulling, xv cent. ; Polands or Poleing, xviii cent.) was ancient demesne of the Crown and was held of the king in chief.144 It is first mentioned in 1305 when Henry Sturmy died seised of it, but it seems to have formed part of the estate held at Odiham in 1174— 5 by his ancestor William de Bendeng.145 It passed from the Sturmys to the Seymours in the same way as Liss Turney, and passed to the Crown in 1541 by exchange with Edward, Earl of Hertford, afterwards Duke of Somerset.146 Four years later it was granted by Henry VIII to Robert Creswell of Odiham,147 of whom it was purchased in 1579 by Peter Osborne and Nicholas Young.148 Nicholas died seised of it in 1595,149 and his son Robert sold it in 1596-7 to John Fielder, from whom it passed in 1638 to his son John.150 John Fielder sold it in 1639-40 to Anthony Pickering.151 The manor is next mentioned in 1755, when it belonged to Sir John Tylney, Earl Tylney of Castlemaine.152 He died without issue in 1784,153 and the manor passed to Catherine Tylney Long, granddaughter of the earl's sister Emma.154 A conveyance by her in 1811 to Robert Bicknell 155 was probably made for a settlement on her marriage with William Pole Tylney Long Wellesley, afterwards Earl of Mornington, which took place in March of the following year.
The name of the manor is preserved at Poland Farm and Poland Mill about a mile to the north of the town. The estate now belongs to Sir Henry P. St. John-Mildmay, bart.
144 144 Inq. p.m. 33 Edw. I, no. 65. In 149 1-2 the manor was said to be held of the Prioress of Wintney for service unknown. {Cal. of Inq. Hen. VII, i, 328.)
145 See Liss Turney; Excerptae Rot. Fin. (Rec. Com.), i, 258.
146 L. and P. Hen. VIII, xvi, g. 779 (7).
147 Ibid, xx (z),g. 266 (33).
148 Pat. 21 Eliz. pt. vi.
149 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), ccxlv, 56.
150 Ibid. 1 5 Chas. I, pt. ii, no. 34.
151 Feet of F. Hants, Trin. 1 5 Chas. I. In 1647 John Field (sic) married at Farnborough Constance Pickering, and in 1632 Anthony Pickering married Bridget Velyne, whose sister was the wife of James Wolveridge, showing the connexion between the owners of Stapely. Phillimore and Stocks, Hampshire Parish Reg. iii, 116; information by Mr. J. H. Cope.
152 Recov. R. Hit. 28 Geo. II, rot. 49.
153 G.E.C. Complete Peerage, under Castlemain
154 Ibid
155 Recov. R. D. £nr. Mich. 51 Geo. Ill, m. 53.
