in the 12th century, reynold de st. valery gave a third of the manor to edmund and osbert de dibden. nicholas de dibden held this third of dibden of edmund earl of cornwall in 1300. the dibdens held their one third of the estate down to 1428, when agnes, daughter and heir of thomas de dibden, inherited it. it passed to her daughter, alice, who became the wife of richard waller of groombridge, who died in 1486. it stayed in the waller family until 1594 when william waller sold the manor to william webbe, who was already lord of the other two manors in dibden.