After the Dissolution Hankerton and Cloatley in Hankerton became separate estates. In 1544 the Crown granted Crudwell Manor and land at Chalworth, Eastcourt and Murcott to John de Vere, earl of Oxford. The estate was sold off in parts from1919. ... Mayfield House became a hotel c.1965 and Crudwell Court, once the Church Rectory and now called the Old Rectory, became a hotel in 1986. Crudwell in the 1980's also had a post office, general store, newsagent and farrier. ...