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Recalling a long lost manor house in Multon, Lincolnshire, which today survives only in the name of Multon Ings Lane, in the parish of Frampton, south of Boston. The village of Multon or Moulton is said to have been founded in 1100 by Thomas de Multon, the first Baron, whose family had a moated mansion, Multon Hall, which they occupied until 1313. In 1475, Bishop William of Waynflete acquired Multon Hall and he endowed it to Magdalen College, Oxford, which he had founded. The college owned it for at least three centuries after that. The site now forms part of a major Fen drainage system and there are no visible remains of the hall. However, large mounds and traces of moats are still clearly visible. Some accounts and other manorial documents from the 1320s survive in the archives of Magdalen College. At least a part of the manor of All Farthing, which this street was once in, was owned by Thomas Sheppard, who was a Doctor of Divinity from Magdalen College. When Thomas died he left his fortune to his wife Sophia Sheppard, who became a generous benefactor to her husband’s former college, leaving them extensive land in Earlsfield. The college began to develop it for housing from the early 1930s, naming the streets after places and people that were connected with it. Magdalen is one of the wealthiest colleges in Oxford.
