The three varying names reflect the geographical position of the property. It is certainly one of the older houses in the parish and as early as 1332 on the Subsidy Roll ‘Simon at Hole’ is listed as a landowner at Maresfield and in 1570 the name John Kydder appears.

On the first page of the Parish Register, Richard Kidder (variation in spelling!) of The Hole was buried in 1549. Descendants of the Kidder family were brought to Maresfield for burial over a long period and as late as 1864. The Revd Mr Ward-Petley in Maresfield Old and New records that Richard Kidder who was born in 1633 and became Bishop of Bath and Wells suffered a violent death with his wife in the Autumn of 1703 when a storm broke over the city and blew a stack of chimneys through the roof of the Bishop’s Palace and killed them both in their bed.

The Hothe or Hoath Family followed the Kidders at Lampool until the property passed to the Newnham Family and subsequently merged into the Maresfield Park Estate of the Shelleys. The picture shows again evidence of hop growing in the latter years of the 19th century and early years of this century.