The Lydstep Farms
There were five properties called Lydstep - variously spelt.
Lydstep house circa 1910
To use 1786 as an anchor date, there were West 'Lydstop' (the Palace) and Lydstep Farm (Home Farm), in Penally Parish. In Manorbier were the future Lydstep House owned by John Adams esq. and occupied by 'Widow' Teague, also a much smaller property owned and occupied by Widow Teague (could this have been Court Farm?) and a farm owned by Lord Milford of Picton Castle.
This, acquired as part of the Trefloyne Estate, had particular status as the property of the lord of the manor, and was sometimes referred to as Manor Farm. 'Lydstep Farm' and 'Manor Farm' were in a continuity of ownership since the early 17th Century, but the 'Haven'/'Lydstep House' was a recent Adams purchase from the Stackpole Estate.
