Tilsworth Manor
Built just beside Warren Knoll, on lower ground, was the second "Tilsworth Castle", a 15th-century fortified, and moated, manor house. The manor was inclosed by an Act of Parliament in 1767. It was demolished about the year 1800 and a new manor house was built on the same location.
It was most likely built by Richard Chamberlain (d. 1496), the son of the previous mentioned William Chamberlain. The manor passed to Richard's son Edward Chamberlain (b. 1479), who gave it to his maternal grandfather Sir Richard Fowler in 1528. It was held in the Fowler family for only 3 generations, until sold by Richard Fowler, in 1606, to Sir Anthony Chester. The sale of the estate followed an incident, in 1600, during which Richard Fowler was imprisoned in the Tower of London as the result of a forged letter implicating him in a plot to poison Queen Elizabeth I. Richard's young wife, her lover and her brother were later convicted of the forgery.
The estate then passed through the hands of eight members of the Chester family before being sold by Charles Chester to Sir Gregory Osborn Page-Turner, son of Gregory Page-Turner, 3rd Baronet, in 1838. The property was then in the ownership of that family, in the forms of Mr. F. A. Page-Turner and Sir E. H. Page-Turner, until the latter's death in 1898, at which time it was held by his trustees.
Currently on the site is the third manor, of the same name, built in the 19th century by a member of the Chester family, which still retains the 15th century gate tower and the moat. The current Tilsworth Manor is a private residence, though the Tilsworth Fête is held in the grounds each June.
This last site of "Tilsworth Castle" is a Scheduled Monument.
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