Leigh Court was called Lege in the Domesday Book. It records?"Turstin holds Lege, his father held it in King Edward's time and paid gheld for one hide . . . ." At the Conquest, the Manor was given to the Bishop of Contanus, after whose death William Rufus granted the Manor to Robert FitzHammon, whose daughter married Robert Earl of Gloucester. The Earl of Gloucester sold the Manor of Leigh to R...