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On one of the window panes of 'Hetty Walwyn's Room', named for
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Sir James, living and fighting in France, leased the manor to Walter de Helyon, who passed it on to his daughter Joanna when she married
Richard Walwyn. Their son bought the lordship of the manor in about 1403, and the property remained named after his grandfather. A wooden effigy of Walter de
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