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Originally Posted by Stumped
The ferry vessel was known locally as the 'Hacking Boat' for whatever reason and the name apparently stuck to the area in which it plied it's trade - or so I was led to believe.
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The land was owned by the del Hacking family from at least 1200, and may have been known in those days as Hacking or land of Hacking.
Bernard de Hacking gave his estate to his son William in 1328. The land then passed to the Shuttleworth family when his only daughter Agnes married Henry Shuttleworth.
It again passed through marriage when Anne Shuttleworth, the sole heir of Robert Shuttlworth married Sir Thomas Walmsley, who built the house in 1607.
