History

Rangeworthy, in South Gloucestershire, is on the old coach route from Bristol to Dursley. Rangeworthy, then a chapelry in the parish of Thornbury, is mentioned in the Domesday Book. At the time of the hundred and union of Thornbury the Manor was held by the King. Brictric, son of Algar, held the Manor in 1042 -1066. After the conquest Maud wife of William the Conqueror held the manor.

The present Manor House appears to have been built in the early part of the 14 th century. In the reign of Edward II it was held by Hugh de Audley, second husband of Margaret, daughter of the Earl of Gloucester and niece to the King. Margaret's first husband was Piers Gaveston, once a favourite of the King but eventually executed at Warwick in 1312. Hugh de Audley and Margaret were still living in the Manor House in 1348. A few years later the Manor was held by Joan, widow of John Talbot, Viscount de Lisle; the Lisle family being related to the Berkeley 's of Berkeley Castle .

In 1570 Robert Hale and his wife Alice Crew of Alderley, near Wotton-under-Edge bought the Manor House for 230 Marks, a Mark being a medieval coin worth thirteen shillings and four pennies. They were living in the House in 1598. Their grandson who became Lord Chief Justice lived at the Manor House until about 1640. The Manor House passed from the Hale family to Mr W. Phelps in 1771, he let the property as a farmhouse with land, and it became known as Court Farm. Various tenants occupied Court Farm between 1840 and 1910. The Manor House was restored at considerable cost by Mr Chester Master in 1910 and from that time was called Rangeworthy Court . It has since been used as a private house, a school and now a hotel.