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==History==
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|author=Charlotte Moore
|title=Hancox
|rating=4.5
|genre=History
|summary=Hancox is the large imposing house in rural Sussex where Charlotte Moore was brought up, and where she still lives. Although its origins are not fully documented, according to local records it certainly existed by the mid-15th century, its name probably derived from that of John Handcocks, one of the early owners. In what is basically part family history and part biography of the house itself, the author traces its story back to lawyer John Dounton, the first owner about whom nothing substantial is known, who made extensive alterations to it in 1569. It then passed through the hands of several families until her ancestors acquired it in 1888. In 1900 one of them let it to the Church of England Temperance Society as a drying-out house for 'inebriates', but the arrangement was terminated in 1907 and the family moved back in.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670915866</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Frances Woodsford
