Eastcourt

Eastcourt was held by the Prior of Boxgrove, who had half a fee in 1428. Pasturage rights were mentioned in 1332. The name occurs again in 1560 when the reversion of "the manor of Drayton called Estcourt," formerly of the monastery of Boxgrove and then held on lease by Anne Barnam and Robert her son, was granted to Thomas and George Stoughton.

John Caryll acquired the estate around the same period. In a 1637 survey for Sir John Caryll, the Eastcourt lands of approximately 300 acres were occupied by Henry and William Peachie. A contemporary map shows Eastcourt on the east side of Drayton Street opposite Bisshopp's Westcourt. A hedge planted in 1518 served as the boundary between Drayton and Merston. The estate probably formed part of the Caryll family's wider Merston manorial holdings.