 The present lord of the manor is Robert Batt.A curious case of 1786 in the Court of King's Bench called "The King against the Inhabitants of Gresham" was to do with the master-servant relationship in the case of William Thompson, a settled inhabitant of Gresham until 1780, who had entered the service of a Mr Creemer of Beeston Regis and later became a pauper.The "Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales" (1870–1872) described Gresham