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Hotspot 16. Court Place, formerly Manor of Iffley
Court Place may have hidden parts that are very old indeed, and has a plaque with the initials of John Lewis, 1580. The main drawing room and entrance hall are in late 18th-century style and, as such, would have been enjoyed by the Nowell family after 1810. They are now enjoyed by postgraduates of the University, which bought the house in 1965. (For some former occupiers of Court Place, see Iffley People when added.)

Iffley perversely calls another house "The Manor House" but this is it, and the place where the manorial court was held. The Manor of Iffley, held by the St Remy family in the 12th century, passed through numerous hands until it was given by Richard II's queen to Sir Richard Abberbury. In 1393, he founded almshouses at Donnington, Berkshire, where his castle was, and endowed them with the rents from Iffley. The Donnington Hospital has been Iffley's largest landowner ever since.

The Manor did not include the whole township; there was also the estate that went with the Rectory (see 4), and two estates belonging to Lincoln College – one that went with the Mill (see 3) and a farming estate with the house called The Manor House (see 17). Other Oxford colleges had small amounts of land.