in 1300 walter nott held one-third of dibden from edmund earl of cornwall. sixteen years later john nott held it. in 1360 walter nott, parson of the church of michelmersh, reserved a messuage and 2 carucates in dibden from a grant of land which he made to romsey abbey. shortly after this the estate came into the hands of the family which gave it the distinctive name of dibden poleyn. john poleyn held it in 1369 and the poleyn family was still holding it in 1413. by 1422 the manor had come, with dibden hanger, to the hands of john hall, and thereafter followed the same descent.