[Illustration] A well-known Wiltshire family, seated at Stourton, in
that county, soon after the Norman Conquest. "The name of the
Stourtons be very aunciente yn those parties," writes Leland in his
Itinerary. "The Ryver of Stoure risith ther of six fountaines or
springer, wherof three be on the northe side of the Parke harde
withyn the pale: the other three be north also, but without the
Parke; the Lord Stourton gyveth these six Fountaynes yn his armes."
The Yorkshire property, and consequent settlement in this county,
came from the match with the heiress of Langdale Lord Langdale in
1775.
Younger Branch. Stourton, (called Vavasour,) of Hazlewood. Baronet
1828, first cousin of the present peer.
See Brydges's Collins, vol. vi. p. 633; and Leland's Itin., vii.
fol. 78 b.
ARMS.--_Sable, a bend or between six fountains proper_.
Present Representative, Charles Stourton, 18th Baron Stourton.