Editing Tottenham Court Road (section)

===Manor of Tottenham Court===
The first surviving record of the manor is, as Þottanheale, from a charter from around AD 1000. The initial 'Þ' (pronounced 'th') may have been a mistake by the scribe, who should perhaps have used a 'T': all subsequent records use an initial 'T'.<ref>Oxford Dictionary of English Place-names, Eilert Ekwall, 4th edition</ref> The manor was subsequently described as ''Totehele'' in the [[Domesday Book]] of 1086.{{sfn|Weinreb|Hibbert|Keay|Keay|2008|p=922}} The area was described as ''Totenhale'' in 1184 and ''Totenhale Court'' by 1487.{{sfn|Mills|2010|p=248}} Although the road's name has a similar word root to [[Tottenham]] in the [[London Borough of Haringey]], the two are not directly related.{{sfn|Mills|2010|p=248}}

[[File:William-Hogarth-The-March-of-the-Guards-to-Finchley-1750-©-The-Foundling-Museum.jpg|thumb|''[[The March of the Guards to Finchley]]'' is set outside the Adam and Eve at the northwest end of Tottenham Court Road.]]

[[File:St Giles parish, London 1804.jpg|thumb|right|The Manor of Tottenham Court, now known as [[Fitzrovia]], being urbanised in 1804. The Manor formed the south-west part of the parish and later borough of [[St Pancras, London|St Pancras]]. North is to the right-hand side.]]

[[File:The manor house of Toten Hall - 1813.gif|thumb|250px|The manor house of Toten Hall, {{circa}} 1813]]

The manor occupied the south-western part of the parish of [[St Pancras, London|St Pancras]], whose boundaries are now used to delineate most of the south-west of the wider modern [[London Borough of Camden]], of which St Pancras is the principal component. South of Torrington Place, ''Tottenham Court'' (and therefore St Pancras) lay between Tottenham Court Road and what is now the borough boundary with the [[City of Westminster]]. North of Torrington Place, ''Tottenham Court'' (and hence also St Pancras) occupied both the east and west sides of the road. The manor house lay just to the north of what is now [[Euston Road]] (which was not built until 1756).

The manor is mentioned in the [[Domesday Book]] as belonging to the Dean and Chapter of [[St Paul's Cathedral]]. In the time of [[Henry III of England|Henry III]] (1216–1272), a manor house slightly north-west of what is now the corner of Tottenham Court Road and Euston Road belonged to one William de Tottenhall. In about the 15th century, the area was known variously as ''Totten'', ''Totham'', or ''Totting Hall''. After changing hands several times, the manor was leased for 99 years to Queen [[Elizabeth I]], and it came to be popularly called ''Tottenham Court''.<ref>{{cite book |last=Walford |first=Edward |author-link=Edward Walford |title=Tottenham Court Road |url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/old-new-london/vol4/pp467-480 |url-status=live |series=Old and New London |volume=4 |publisher=[[British History Online]]|location=London |year=1878 |pages=467–480 |access-date=31 October 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161017021620/http://www.british-history.ac.uk/old-new-london/vol4/pp467-480 |archive-date=17 October 2016 |df=dmy-all}}</ref> In 1639, the land was leased to [[Charles I of England|Charles I]]; following his execution ten years later, it was sold to Ralph Harrison.

It regained Crown ownership upon the [[Restoration (England)|Restoration of the monarchy]], where it was given a 41-year lease to [[Charles II of England|Charles II]].{{sfn|Wheatley|2011|p=389}}