Trinity College was allotted 243 acre, which was named Vallance Farm. It increased this to 340 acre by 1946, when Vallance Farm was sold.

There was a Valence manor house by 1324, and there are subsequent records of it in 1461 and 1508. It may have been the same as the Valence manor house recorded in 1612, 1685 and 1726 on the south side of Mill Lane. It was a substantial house with six rooms on the ground floor and two solars upstairs. The present Vallance