 In the 16th century, Sir Michael Hicks (son of Robert Hicks, a merchant of London and Bristol, and Julia Arthur) owned Beverston Castle and passed the Beverston holding to his son Sir William Hicks, 1st Baronet.The estate remained in the Hicks family through to at least the early 19th century.As a result of the English Civil War (mid-seventeenth century), much of Beverston Castle was destroyed.