Woodmansterne - About three-quarters of a mile north of the church is the Oaks or Lambert's Oaks, so called from the ancient family of Lambert settled in Woodmansterne and the neighbourhood as early as the 14th century. It is a large 18th-century house of red brick in the castellated style. Jeffrey Lambert, eldest son of John Lambert (seventh of the name, who died in 1533), ancestor of the Lamberts of Banstead (q.v.), left his Woodmansterne estate to his fourth son Roger, who served in the Low Countries under the Earl of Leicester. He died in 1617. His great-grandson Roger Lambert, a Royalist, who became impoverished in the Civil War, sold the estate in 1661 to Jeffrey Lambert of Banstead, his second cousin once removed.
Roger LAMBERT |
De getoonde gegevens hebben geen bronnen.