Place | Year | Number of eels | Number of fishermen / fisheries | Owed to | Owed with | Notes | Source type | Citation | Source Latitude | Source Longitude | Destination Latitude | Destination Longitude | Notes on locations |
Wyllan | 970 | 10000 | uncertain | Ely Monastery | Neither Outwell nor Upwell is individually mentioned in the Cambridgeshire section of Domesday Book, but it is reasonable to suppose that some of the 15,500 eels due to the monastery from Wisbech actually came from this neighbourhood. | Charter | 'Houses of Benedictine monks: Abbey and cathedral priory of Ely', in A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely: Volume 2, ed. L F Salzman (London, 1948), pp. 199-210. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/cambs/vol2/pp199-210 [accessed 20 August 2017]. | 52.612299 | 0.236705 | 52.3995 | 0.263779 | A guess based on source | |
Wyllan and Eolem | 973 | 8000 | uncertain | Peterborough Abbey | Fisheries surrounding the villages of Wyllan and Eolum [Upwell, Outell, and Elm, Cambs. and Norfolk] were bought by the aforesaid bishop [i.e. ®thelwold] for 21 pounds. And 16,000 eels were captured there each year, of which the bishop decreed that 8000 should got annually to Thorney, and 8000 to Burn [Peterborough]. | Charter | Cyril Roy Hart, The Early Charters of Eastern England (Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1966), 182. | 52.63 | 0.18 | 52.5725 | -0.238889 | Upwell, Outwell and Elm | |
Wyllan and Eolem | 973 | 8000 | uncertain | Thorney Abbey | Fisheries surrounding the villages of Wyllan and Eolum [Upwell, Outell, and Elm, Cambs. and Norfolk] were bought by the aforesaid bishop [i.e. ®thelwold] for 21 pounds. And 16,000 eels were captured there each year, of which the bishop decreed that 8000 should got annually to Thorney, and 8000 to Burn [Peterborough]. | Charter | Cyril Roy Hart, The Early Charters of Eastern England (Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1966), 182. | 52.612299 | 0.236705 | 52.6204 | -0.1072 | Upwell, Outwell and Elm | |
Welles | 974 | 60000 | 20 fishermen | Ramsey Monastery | Charter | T D Atkinson, Ethel M Hampson, E T Long, C A F Meekings, Edward Miller, H B Wells and G M G Woodgate, 'Wisbech Hundred: Outwell and Upwell', in A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely: Volume 4, City of Ely; Ely, N. and S. Witchford and Wisbech Hundreds, ed. R B Pugh (London, 2002), pp. 206-219. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/cambs/vol4/pp206-219 [accessed 28 July 2017]. | 52.612299 | 0.236705 | 52.448333 | -0.100833 | Hart, in his "Early Charters of Eastern England" identifies this as Upwell and Outwell (the Wells) | ||
Doddington and Wimblington | 975c | 1000 | 1 weir | Abbot of Ely | Charter | T D Atkinson, Ethel M Hampson, E T Long, C A F Meekings, Edward Miller, H B Wells and G M G Woodgate, 'North Witchford Hundred: Doddington', in A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely: Volume 4, City of Ely; Ely, N. and S. Witchford and Wisbech Hundreds, ed. R B Pugh (London, 2002), pp. 110-116. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/cambs/vol4/pp110-116 [accessed 10 August 2017]. | 52.497714 | 0.064423 | 52.3995 | 0.263779 | villages close together | ||
Stonea | 975c | 2000 | 1 marsh, rented to farm | Abbot of Ely | Charter | T D Atkinson, Ethel M Hampson, E T Long, C A F Meekings, Edward Miller, H B Wells and G M G Woodgate, 'North Witchford Hundred: Doddington', in A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely: Volume 4, City of Ely; Ely, N. and S. Witchford and Wisbech Hundreds, ed. R B Pugh (London, 2002), pp. 110-116. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/cambs/vol4/pp110-116 [accessed 10 August 2017]. | 52.519927 | 0.14303 | 52.3995 | 0.263779 | |||
Hilgay and Fordham | 1007c | 26275 | multiple | Thorney Abbey | A charter of other things | This is the rent of the fen at Fordham and at Hilgay [which is obtained (?) from] É EdgarÕs son and from Wulfsige, namely 4000 [eels]. From the east (?) fen 2000, fom É pole 20 ÔsticksÕ [of eels]. From the fenced weir and from in front of it (?) 10 ÔsticksÕ. From the true watercourse and ÉÉ 20 ÔsticksÕ. From the lode weir 1000 eels. From the burh weir É thousand. From sceld ÉÉ 14 ÔsticksÕ. From ÉÉ weir 150. From wrat weir 2000. From bulingge É ÔstiksÕ. From batlin É thouseand. From brade 20 ÔsticksÕ were given. From WulfgarÕs weir 20 ÔsticksÕ. From OsgodÕs 1000. From ÉÉ weir 2000. From ÉÉ1000. The total amount in 26,000 and 11 ÔsticksÕ | Charter | Robertson, A. J., ed. Anglo-Saxon Charters. Translated by A. J. Robertson. [2d ed.]. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1956. (256-257) | 52.5584 | 0.3898 | 52.6204 | -0.1072 | source coordinates for Hilgay |
Lakenheath (Lakinge hithe) | 1020 | 4000 | uncertain | Abbey of Bury St Edmunds | From the contested charter of Cnut to the monks of Bury St. Edumnds: ÉAnd my queen ®lgyfu grants to the saints four thousand eels with their services which pertain to them, at Lakinge hithe. | Historical Manuscripts Commission, 'The borough of Kings Lynn: Charters, letters patent, etc.', in The Manuscripts of the Corporations of Southampton and Kings Lynn Eleventh Report, Appendix: Part III (London, 1887), pp. 185-209. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/hist-mss-comm/vol11/pt3/pp185-209 [accessed 28 August 2017]. | 52.4136 | 0.5226 | 52.242923 | 0.7104932 | |||
Appledore | 1032c | 750 | 6 fisheries (per Doomsday) | Christchurch, Canterbury | 3 weys of cheese | Here is declared in this
document how King Cnut and the Lady ®lgifu granted permission to Eadsige
their priest, when he became a monk, to dispose of the estate at Appledore as
pleased him best. Then he
gave it to Christchurch to the servants of God on behalf of his soul, and
bought it back from the community for his own lifetime and EdwinÕs for four
pounds, on condition that every year 3 weys of cheese and 3 binds of eels
shall be rendered to Christchurch from the estateÉ Robertson notes that a bind is 10 sticks (p. 420, note for ll. 13f) |
Charter | Robertson, A. J., ed. Anglo-Saxon Charters. Translated by A. J. Robertson. [2d ed.]. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1956. (170-171) | 51.0324 | 0.7882 | 51.2779 | 1.0907 | |
Abbey of Ramsey | 1050c | 4000 | uncertain | Peterborough Abbey | Ramsey agreed to pay
4,000 eels a year to the Abbey of Peterborough in return for
building-stone at Barnack Et pro his dedit praefato abbati de Burch totam terram quam sanctus Benedictus habuit apud Marham liberam ab omni calumnia et quietam in plenam commutationem. Ipse insuper abbas et fratres Ramesienses singulis annis dabunt de charitate abbati et fratribus Burgi quatuor millia anguillarum in quadragesima sub tali uidelicet conditione quod abbas et fratres de Ramesia habebunt in territorio sancti Petri de Burch quantum sibi opus fuerit de lapidibus quadratilibus apud Bernech et de petris muralibus apud Burch in plena cambitione. |
Charter | Kemble, John Mitchell. Codex Diplomaticus aevi Saxonici, opera Johannis M. Kemble... London: Sumptibus Societatis (Anglicae Historiae), 1846. (240-243) | 52.448333 | -0.100833 | 52.5725 | -0.238889 | ||
Abbots Salford | 1086 | 500 | 1 mill | Abbey of Evesham | 10 s. | Payments: mill, 10s and 20 sticks of eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 52.150846 | -1.90107 | 52.09215 | -1.94677 | |
Alrewas | 1086 | 1500 | uncertain | King William | Payments: 1500 eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 52.732542 | -1.7498386 | 52.732542 | 1.7498386 | ||
Alveston | 1086 | 25300 | 3 mills | Bishop of Worcester | 40 s. | Shared statistics: all statistics recorded here; memorandum on the pre-Conquest history of the lordship of the estate in 3,3. Payments: 3 mills, 40s and 1012 sticks of eels; in Warwick 4 houses, 16d. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 51.59029 | -2.53271 | 52.193636 | -2.221575 | |
Alwalton | 1086 | 500 | 1 fishery | Abbey of Peterborough | 5 s. | Shared statistics: 8,2-3, valuation recorded here. Land for 2 ploughs in lordship, besides these 5 hides, assumed to be new land. Payments: 1 fishery, 500 eels [and] 5s. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 52.549593 | -0.322553 | 52.5725 | -0.238889 | |
Ashton | 1086 | 325 | 2 mills | Abbot of Peterborough | 40 s. | ASHTON (Ascetone, 1086, Ayston, Hen. I and common, Ashton, xvi cent.) is now a separate township, formed in 1885 when the adjacent hamlet of Elmington was added to it. (fn. 144) In 1086 the abbot of Peterborough held it as 4_ hides. Two mills rendered 40s. and 325 eels. It was worth only 8s. in 1066, but in 1086 £7. There was a free tenant, Ivo, who held _ hide, worth 4s. (fn. 145) About 1125 the abbot held 4 hides in demesne, and there were now two free | Doomsday | 'Parishes: Oundle', in A History of the County of Northampton: Volume 3, ed. William Page (London, 1930), pp. 85-101. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/northants/vol3/pp85-101 [accessed 17 August 2017]. | 52.631042 | -0.369128 | 52.5725 | -0.238889 | |
Asselby | 1086 | 2400 | fisheries | Count of Mortain | Payments: fisheries, 2400 eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 53.7389 | -0.90403 | 48.649222 | -0.941546 | ||
Aston [Cantlow] | 1086 | 125 | 1 mill | Osbern son of Richard | 8 s. | Other population: 9 Flemings. Payments: mill, 8s and 5 sticks of eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 52.23913 | -1.7977135 | 52.23913 | -1.7977135 | |
Atherstone [-on-Stour] | 1086 | 2500 | 1 mill | Bishop Odo of Bayeux | 10 s. | Payments: mill, 10s and 10 sticks of eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 52.1536 | -1.70279 | 49.2777 | -0.706472 | |
Aubourn | 1086 | 1000 | uncertain | Robert of Tosny | Shared statistics: 18,29-30, valuation recorded here. Payments: 1000 eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 53.15258 | -0.619861 | 53.15258 | -0.619861 | ||
Barford | 1086 | 325 | 1 mill | Osbern son of Richard | 2 s. | Payments: mill, 2s and 13 sticks of eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 52.242056 | -1.606527 | 52.242056 | -1.606527 | |
Barrington | 1086 | 3200 | uncertain | Robert Gernon | Geld: manorial total and 1066 particulars disagree; ICC gives total hidage of 8.375. Payments: marsh, 3200 eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 52.132849 | 0.029992 | 52.132849 | 0.029992 | ||
Beverley | 1086 | 7000 | uncertain | Archbishop of York | Shared statistics: 2E1;18-41, valuation recorded here. Geld: St John's carucate 'always free', Skidby figure from the Summary; Burton (not recorded there) deduced. Ploughteams: 3 c' of men-at-arms assumed to be ploughs. Payments: fishery, 7000 eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 53.841963 | -0.435093 | 53.95996 | -1.0872979 | ||
Binton | 1086 | 200 | uncertain | William son of Corbucion | Payments: part of a mill, 4 packloads of corn and 8 sticks of eels; from Droitwich 3 packloads of salt. Mills: 1 part of a mill, recorded as 0.5. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 52.185502 | -1.794667 | 52.185502 | -1.794667 | ||
Birling | 1086 | 390 | 1 fishery and 1 mill | Bishop of Bayeux | 330 from 1 mill 60 from 1 fishery | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 51.318997 | 0.409511 | 49.2777 | -0.706472 | ||
Bladon | 1086 | 125 | 2 mills | Bishop of Bayeux | 14 s. | Adam holds of the Bishop 5 h. in Blade [Bladon]. (There is) land for 7 ploughs. Now in demesne (there are) 2 ploughs and 2 serfs; and 8 villeins with 18 bordars have 3 ploughs. There (are) 2 mills rendering (de) 14 s. and 125 eels, | Doomsday | 'The Domesday survey: The Text', in A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 1, ed. L F Salzman (London, 1939), pp. 396-428. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/oxon/vol1/pp396-428 [accessed 28 July 2017]. | 51.833431 | -1.347727 | 49.2777 | -0.706472 | |
Bodenham | 1086 | 750 | uncertain | Roger of Lacy | Other population: 1 beadle, 1 smith. Payments: 30 sticks of eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 52.150939 | -2.6489007 | 52.150939 | -2.6489007 | ||
Bottisham | 1086 | 400 | uncertain | Walter Giffard | Payments: 3 ploughshares (ICC, 4); marsh, 400 eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 52.223475 | 0.25804 | 52.223475 | 0.25804 | ||
Bristeva | 1086 | 225 | unclear -- meadows and fisheries | Bishop of Lincoln | 22s. 8d. | Of the same land of this manor Bristeva holds 20_ h. at rent (ad firmam). There is land for 16 ploughs. Now in demesne there are 4 ploughs; and 46 villeins with 15 bordars have 20 ploughs. There (are) 4 mills rendering (de) 38 s. From the meadows and fisheries, 22 s. and 8 d., and 9 sticks of eels. In addition to these (sources of income) this land renders 20 li. In King Edward's time (it rendered) 10 li.; when received, 8 li. | Doomsday | 'The Domesday survey: The Text', in A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 1, ed. L F Salzman (London, 1939), pp. 396-428. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/oxon/vol1/pp396-428 [accessed 28 July 2017]. | 51.656755 | -1.158778 | 53.230688 | -0.540579 | |
Broadfield and [Lower] Broadfield | 1086 | 600 | 1 fishery | Ralph of Tosny | Shared statistics: 1,11-37, geld total recorded in 1,37. Payments: fishery, 600 eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 51.1032669 | -0.2067942 | 51.1032669 | -0.2067942 | ||
Broadward | 1086 | 500 | 1 fishery | William son of Norman | Shared statistics: 1,11-37, geld total recorded in 1,37. Payments: fishery, 500 eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 52.0354669 | -1.854492 | 52.0354669 | -1.854492 | ||
Broadwas | 1086 | 600 | 1 fishery | Bishop of Worcester | Shared statistics: 2,68-71, geld total (7 hides) recorded here exceeded by particulars (7.5). Payments: a salt-house, 50 measures of salt; a fishery, 20 sticks of eels; 10 houses in Droitwich. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 52.198389 | -2.352401 | 52.193636 | -2.221575 | ||
Bromham | 1086 | 125 | 1 mill | Hugh of Beauchamp | Payments: mill, 125 eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 52.1511384 | -0.52602 | 52.1511384 | -0.52602 | ||
Bromham | 1086 | 100 | 1 mill | Countess Judith | Payments: mill, 100 eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 52.1511384 | -0.52602 | 52.1511384 | -0.52602 | ||
Burghill | 1086 | 625 | uncertain | Alfred of Marlborough | Other population: 2 men-at-arms, 1 man. Payments: 25 sticks of eels; woodland, 4s; burgesses, 52d. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 52.1005259 | -2.7641352 | 52.1005259 | -2.7641352 | ||
Burneham | 1086 | 1000 | 1 man | Earl of Surrey | 1130 rent deeded to the Priory of Castleacre by the 2nd earl of Surrey indicates a previous rent due to the earlÕs family. 1086 is a guess, aligned with Doomsday accounting. The said William Earl Warren gaveÉ1000 eels given by Osmund, the steward, with land in Burneham | Francis Blomefield, 'Freebridge Hundred and Half: Castleacre', in An Essay Towards A Topographical History of the County of Norfolk: Volume 8 (London, 1808), pp. 356-377. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/topographical-hist-norfolk/vol8/pp356-377 [accessed 17 August 2017]. | 52.876549 | 0.838483 | 52.876549 | 0.838483 | Coordinates are for Barsham as a best proximal guess | ||
Burton | 1086 | 280 | uncertain | Earl Roger (of Shrewsbury) | Payments: 280 (eels?). | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 52.8140281 | -1.6371359 | 52.8140281 | -1.6371359 | ||
Byfleet | 1086 | 325 | 1.5 fisheries | Abbey of Chertsey | Payments: 1 1/2 fisheries, 325 eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 51.340125 | -0.471357 | 51.38649 | -0.509456 | ||
Cardington | 1086 | 100 | 1 mill | Hugh of Beauchamp | Payments: mill, 100 eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 52.117296 | -0.412731 | 52.117296 | -0.412731 | ||
Cassington | 1086 | 175 | uncertain | Bishop Odo of Bayeux | Duplicates: entry duplicated in 7,32. Payments: mill and fishery, 175 eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 51.789844 | -1.3485835 | 49.2777 | -0.706472 | ||
Chainhalle | 1086 | 100 | 1 mill | Hugh of Beauchamp | Payments: mill, 100 eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 52.178151 | -0.425156 | 52.178151 | -0.425156 | ||
Chatteris | 1086 | 4000 | uncertain | Abbey of Ramsey | Payments: fisheries, 3000 eels; presentations, 27d. Satellite: IE 3 ploughlands, 3 ploughs of meadow. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 52.456102 | 0.054012 | 52.448333 | -0.100833 | ||
Chatteris | 1086 | 1500 | uncertain | Abbey of Ely | Payments: fisheries, 1500 eels. Satellite: IE Brev. 2 ploughs in lordship, includes cottagers as smallholders, slaves from IE and IE Brev. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 52.456102 | 0.054012 | 52.3995 | 0.263779 | ||
Chesterton | 1086 | 1000 | 1 marsh | King William | Payments: marsh, 1000 eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 51.8893878 | -1.1871427 | 51.8893878 | -1.1871427 | ||
Chetwynd | 1086 | 1600 | uncertain | Turold (of Verley) | Payments: mill with 2 fisheries, 5s and 64 sticks of eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 52.8015243 | -2.4085858 | 52.8015243 | -2.4085858 | ||
Chippenham | 1086 | 1500 | uncertain | Geoffrey de Mandeville | Payments: 1500 eels; in 1066, 8d or 1 horse in the King's service. Satellite: ICC records 29 villagers, adds 1 mill, supplies no value. Geld: reduced because the farm oppressed it. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 51.461514 | -2.1195157 | 51.461514 | -2.1195157 | ||
Chithurst | 1086 | 100 | 1 mill | Earl Roger (of Shrewsbury) | 8 s. | Payments: mill, 8s and 100 eels; site in Chichester, 6d. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 50.9939 | -0.8070041 | 50.9939 | -0.8070041 | |
Clifton | 1086 | 150 | 1 mill | Eudo the steward | Payments: mill, 150 eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 51.4622014 | -2.618066 | 51.4622014 | -2.618066 | ||
Clifton [Reynes] | 1086 | 125 | 1 fishery | Countess Judith | Payments: fishery, 125 eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 52.151023 | -0.6858919 | 52.151023 | -0.6858919 | ||
Cottenham | 1086 | 500 | uncertain | Abbey of Crowland | Payments: marsh, 500 eels; presentations, 12d. Duplicates: 40 acres possibly duplicated in 32,42. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 52.288837 | 0.124287 | 52.676305 | -0.1669214 | ||
Cottenham | 1086 | 150 | marsh | Picot of Cambridge | Payments: marsh, 150 eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 52.288837 | 0.1242869 | 52.205337 | 0.121817 | ||
Cottingham | 1086 | 8000 | 5 fishereis | Hugh son of Baldric | Geld: breakdown from the Summary. Payments: 1 mill (or mills); 5 fisheries, 8000 eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 53.78208 | -0.413978 | 53.78208 | -0.413978 | ||
Cropthorne | 1086 | 400 | 1 mill | 10s. | 20 sticks | Doomsday | 'Parishes: Cropthorne', in A History of the County of Worcester: Volume 3 (London, 1913), pp. 322-329. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/worcs/vol3/pp322-329 [accessed 28 July 2017]. | 52.101679 | -2.003323 | 52.101679 | -2.003323 | ||
Croxton | 1086 | 500 | marsh | David of Argentan | Payments: grazing, 16d; marsh, 500 eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 52.2176534 | -0.174744 | 52.2176534 | -0.174744 | ||
Crudgington | 1086 | 1000 | uncertain | Robert the butler | Payments: 4 fisheries, 13s 4d. Values: 1086 value £4 and 1000 eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 52.759 | -2.5493774 | 52.759 | -2.5493774 | ||
Datchet | 1086 | 2000 | 2 fisheries | Giles brother of Ansculf | Payments: 2 fisheries, 2000 eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 51.484 | -0.57952 | 51.4840262 | 0.5795206 | ||
Deddington | 1086 | 100 | 3 fishermen | Bishop of Bayeux | 41 s. | The same Bishop holds Dadintone [Deddington]. There are 36 h. There is land for 30 ploughs. In demesne there were 11_ h. in addition to the inland. Now there are 18_ h. in demesne, and there are 10 ploughs and 25 serfs; and 64 villeins with 10 bordars have 20 ploughs. There (are) 3 mills rendering (de) 41 s. and 100 eels, and there (are) 140 acres of meadow and 30 acres of pasture. From the meadows 10 s. In King Edward's time and afterwards it was worth 40 li.; now (it is worth) 60 li. Five thegns. | 'The Domesday survey: The Text', in A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 1, ed. L F Salzman (London, 1939), pp. 396-428. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/oxon/vol1/pp396-428 [accessed 28 July 2017]. | 51.982193 | -1.323309 | 49.2777 | -0.706472 | ||
Denford | 1086 | 250 | uncertain | Bishop of Coutances | Payments: 250 eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 52.37456 | -0.54603 | 49.047778 | -1.445833 | ||
Doddington | 1086 | 27150 | uncertain | Abbey of Ely | Payments: 27150 eels; presentations, 24s. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 52.497714 | 0.064423 | 52.399538 | 0.263779 | ||
Dorchester | 1086 | 750 | 1 fisherman | Bishop of Lincoln | Shared statistics: 6,1a-c;9, geld. Geld: of 90 hides, 59.75 are the bishop's, disaggregated in 6,1b-c; remaining 30.25 in 6,9. Other population: 1 fisherman, 1 man. Payments: 30 sticks of eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 50.7111639 | -2.44118099 | 53.230688 | -0.540579 | ||
Dorney | 1086 | 500 | 1 fishery | Miles Crispin | Payments: fishery, 500 eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 51.5044754 | -0.6649893 | 51.5044754 | -0.6649893 | ||
Downham | 1086 | 300 | uncertain | Abbey of Ely | Payments: fisheries, 300 eels and 2s. Satellite: IE Brev. cottagers counted as smallholders. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 52.433 | 0.233 | 52.3995 | 0.263779 | This is almost certainly not the Downham in Lancastershire, but is rather the village of Little Downham in Cambridgeshire | |
Duncton | 1086 | 360 | fisheries | Earl Roger (of Shrewsbury) | Payments: 1 site in Chichester, 2s; fisheries, 360 eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 50.9532772 | -0.6307586 | 50.9532772 | -0.6307586 | ||
East Farleigh | 1086 | 1200 | uncertain | Archbishop of Canterbury | Values: subholdings assumed to be additional. Payments: 1200 eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 51.25179 | 0.484321 | 51.280233 | 1.0789089 | ||
Eaton [Socon] | 1086 | 100 | 1 mill | Eudo the steward | Payments: mill, 100 eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 52.21478 | -0.2865121 | 52.21478 | -0.2865121 | ||
Elvington | 1086 | 1000 | 2 fisheries | William of Percy | Payments: 2 fisheries, 1000 eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 53.9205843 | -0.9393713 | 53.9205843 | -0.9393713 | ||
Ely | 1086 | 3750 | fisheries | Abbey of Ely | Payments: fisheries, 3750 eels; presentations, 2s 3d. Satellite: IE Brev. lists 8 ploughs in lordship. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 52.399538 | 0.262363 | 52.3995 | 0.263779 | ||
Eton | 1086 | 1000 | 1 fishery | Walter son of Other | Payments: fisheries, 1000 eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 51.495736 | -0.6044396 | 51.495736 | -0.6044396 | ||
Exning | 1086 | 1200 | uncertain | Count Alan | Payments: 1200 eels. Satellite: ICC 3 men's ploughs. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 52.26584 | 0.371772 | 52.26584 | 0.371772 | ||
Exning | 1086 | 7000 | uncertain | King William | Payments: 7000 eels. Satellite: ICC has £52 value. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 52.26584 | 0.371772 | 52.26584 | 0.371772 | ||
Eynsham | 1086 | 450 | 1 mill | Bishop of Lincoln | 12 s. | The same Bishop holds Eglesham [Eynsham] and Columban the monk holds of him. There are 15_ h. belonging to the same church. There is land for 18 ploughs and the same number (was) found. In demesne there is land for 2 ploughs (which is) inland. Now in demesne (there are) 3 ploughs; and 3 knights with 34 villeins and 33 bordars have 15 ploughs. There (is) a mill rendering (de) 12 s. and 450 eels, and (there are) 255 acres of meadow and 100 acres of pasture. Wood(land) 1_ leagues in length and 1 league and 2 furlongs in breadth. When stocked (the woodland) is worth 25 s. (The manor) was and is worth 20 li. | Doomsday | 'The Domesday survey: The Text', in A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 1, ed. L F Salzman (London, 1939), pp. 396-428. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/oxon/vol1/pp396-428 [accessed 28 July 2017]. | 51.781605 | -1.376999 | 53.230688 | -0.540579 | |
Fladbury | 1086 | 500 | 1 mill | Bishop of Worcester | 10 s. | There was a mill at Fladbury in 1086 which was worth 10s. and 20 stiches of eels a year. | Doomsday | 'Parishes: Fladbury', in A History of the County of Worcester: Volume 3 (London, 1913), pp. 352-364. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/worcs/vol3/pp352-364 [accessed 20 August 2017]. | 52.116315 | -2.004732 | 52.193636 | -2.221575 | |
Fownhope | 1086 | 300 | Hugh the Ass | presentaitno of fish 3x per year | Values: 'The lord has 12s 4d from the waste lands'. Payments: 300 eels. Other population: 1 reeve, 1 smith, 1 carpenter, 1 man-at-arms. Ploughteams: man-at-arms' plough assumed to be additional. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 52.00872 | -2.603924 | 52.00872 | -2.603924 | ||
Goldginton | 1086 | 200 | 2 mills | Hugh of Beuchamp | the 2 mills later get split between two priories: Newnham Priory (100) and Warren Abbey (100) | Doomsday | Palmer Datadet; 'Parishes: Goldington', in A History of the County of Bedford: Volume 3, ed. William Page (London, 1912), pp. 202-209. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/beds/vol3/pp202-209 [accessed 11 August 2017]. | 52.144852 | -0.429423 | 52.144852 | -0.429423 | ||
Grantchester | 1086 | 500 | .5 weir | Robert (son of) Fafiton | Payments: 1/2 weir, 500 eels. Satellite: ICC 1.5 lordship hides. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 52.181007 | 0.093225 | 52.181007 | 0.093225 | ||
Great Barford | 1086 | 80 | 1 mill | Hugh of Beauchamp | Payments: mill, 80 eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 52.158325 | -0.35296 | 52.158325 | -0.35296 | ||
Grimley | 1086 | 1 | .5 fishery | Bishop of Worcester | Shared statistics: 2,66-67, geld adjusted here. Payments: 1/2 fishery, [...] sticks of eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 52.242334 | -2.241903 | 52.193636 | -2.221575 | ||
Gringley [-on-the-Hill] | 1086 | 1000 | uncertain | Roger of Bully | Shared statistics: 9,122-124, valuation recorded here. Payments: 1000 eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 53.40708 | -0.893814 | 53.40708 | -0.893814 | ||
Hailey | 1086 | 1000 | 1 fishery | Geoffrey of Bec | Payments: weir, 50 eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 51.813902 | -1.491223 | 51.813902 | -1.491223 | ||
Halmonds Frome | 1086 | 125 | uncertain | Roger of Lacy | Payments: 5 sticks of eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 52.130928 | -2.478993 | 52.130928 | -2.478993 | ||
Hambleden | 1086 | 1000 | 1 fishery | Queen Matilda | Payments: 1 fishery, 1000 eels. Values: in all its payments, £35 a year at face value. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 51.572545 | -0.869705 | 51.572545 | -0.869705 | ||
Harefield and Harefield [South] | 1086 | 1000 | 4 fishponds | Richard son of Count Gilbert | Payments: 4 fishponds, 1000 eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 51.60314 | -0.484045 | 51.60314 | -0.484045 | ||
Harlton | 1086 | 100 | uncertain | Walter Giffard | Payments: mill, 100 eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 52.15309 | 0.023737 | 52.15309 | 0.023737 | ||
Harmondsworth | 1086 | 1500 | 3 mills and several fishponds | Abbey of Rouen | The Abbot of Holy Trinity, Rouen, holds Hermodesworde [Harmondsworth] of the king. It is assessed at 30 hides. There is land for 20 ploughs. To the demesne belong 8 hides, and there are 3 ploughs. Among the Frenchmen (franc') and the villeins there are 10 ploughs, and there can be 7 more. There a certain knight (miles) has 2 hides, and 2 villeins each [have] 1 hide, and [there are] 2 villeins on (de) 1 hide, and 14 villeins each on 1 virgate, and 6 villeins each on _ virgate, and 6 bordars each on 5 acres, and 7 cottars and 6 serfs. There are 3 mills worth 60s. and 500 eels, and from the fishponds (de piscinis) [are rendered] 1,000 eels. [There is] meadow for 20 ploughs; pasture for the cattle of the vill; wood[land] for 500 pigs; and 1 arpent of vineyard. The whole is worth £20; when he received it [it was worth] £12; T.R.E. £25. Earl Harold held this manor, and in the manor was a certain sokeman holding 2 of these 30 hides. He could not give or sell [them] outside Harmondsworth T.R.E. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset; 'Domesday Survey: Translation of the Text ', in A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 1, Physique, Archaeology, Domesday, Ecclesiastical Organization, the Jews, Religious Houses, Education of Working Classes To 1870, Private Education From Sixteenth Century, ed. J S Cockburn, H P F King and K G T McDonnell (London, 1969), pp. 119-129. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/middx/vol1/pp119-129 [accessed 8 September 2017]. | 51.487453 | -0.475553 | 49.443232 | 1.099971 | ||
Harmston | 1086 | 75000 | uncertain | Earl Hugh | Shared statistics: 13,34-37, valuation recorded in 13,34. Payments: 75000 eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 53.149134 | -0.545708 | 53.149134 | -0.545708 | ||
Harrold | 1086 | 200 | 1 mill | Countess Judith | Payments: mill, 200 eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 52.2054545 | -0.635356 | 52.2054545 | -0.635356 | ||
Hartfield | 1086 | 350 | 1 mill | Count of Mortain | 4 s. | Payments: mill, 4s and 350 eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 51.1023 | 0.111502 | 48.649222 | -0.941546 | |
Haversham | 1086 | 75 | uncertain | William Peverel | Geld: demesne hides mentioned but no figure given. Payments: 75 eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 52.0783638 | -0.7923546 | 52.0783638 | -0.7923546 | ||
Heckfield | 1086 | 100 | uncertain | Hugh of Port | Payments: fisheries, 100 eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 51.3407 | -0.9624634 | 51.3407 | -0.9624634 | ||
Hemel Hempstead | 1086 | 275 | 1 mill | Count of Mortain | Payments: pasture, 2s; mill, 275 eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 51.753241 | -0.448632 | 48.649222 | -0.941546 | ||
Heyford Warren | 1086 | 900 | 2 fisheries | Robert de Oilgi | Roger holds of Robert Haiforde [Heyford Warren]. There are 10 h. (There is) land for 10 ploughs. Now in demesne (there are) 3 ploughs and 3 serfs; and 10 villeins with 1 bordar have 6 ploughs. There (is) a mill rendering (de) 12 s., and 18 acres of meadow, and 2 fisheries rendering (de) 900 eels and 6_ acres of pasture. In King Edward's time it was worth 8 li.; when received 10 li.; now (it is worth) 12 li. | County Records | 'The Domesday survey: The Text', in A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 1, ed. L F Salzman (London, 1939), pp. 396-428. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/oxon/vol1/pp396-428 [accessed 28 July 2017]. | 51.946385 | -1.311315 | 51.946385 | -1.311315 | ||
High Ercall | 1086 | 1502 | 1 fishery | Earl Roger (of Shrewsbury) | Payments: 2 mills, 12 packloads of corn; a fishery, 1502 large eels; 18 ora customary due to the Countess. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 52.74979 | -2.604053 | 52.74979 | -2.604053 | ||
Hitcham | 1086 | 500 | 1 fishery | Miles Crispin | Payments: fishery, 500 eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 52.123874 | 0.894044 | 52.123874 | 0.894044 | ||
Hoddesdon | 1086 | 150 | 1 fishery | Edward of Salisbury | Payments: fishery, 150 eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 51.760007 | -0.015042 | 51.760007 | -0.015042 | ||
Hoddesdon | 1086 | 22 | weirs | Geoffrey de Mandeville | Payments: weirs, 22 eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 51.760007 | -0.015042 | 51.760007 | -0.015042 | ||
Hoddesdon | 1086 | 100 | 1 weir | Count Alan | Shared statistics: 16,9-10, valuation recorded here. Payments: 100 eels from weir. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 51.760007 | -0.015042 | 51.760007 | -0.015042 | ||
Hoddesdon | 1086 | 21 | weirs | Count Eustace | Payments: weirs, 21 eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 51.760007 | -0.015042 | 51.760007 | -0.015042 | ||
Horningsea | 1086 | 1000 | 1 mill | Abbey of Ely | Payments: mill, 1000 eels. Satellite: Domesday Book has 17 for ploughlands, IE 17.5; ICC has 8.5 lords ploughs, 25 villagers; 1086 valuation £16. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 52.24055 | 0.1857501 | 52.3995 | 0.263779 | ||
Huntington | 1086 | 400 | uncertain | Ralph of Mortimer | Other population: 1 rider, 4 ploughmen. Payments: mill, 400 eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 52.33146 | -0.182552 | 51.71808 | 0.67639 | ||
Ibsley | 1086 | 700 | 1 mill | Hugh of Port | Geld: 2 hides of this manor are in the Forest (value £1.00), assumed to be lost to manor. Payments: mill, 700 eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 50.88636 | -1.78808 | 50.88636 | -1.78808 | ||
Isleham | 1086 | 2300 | 1 mill | Archbishop of Canterbury | Payments: mill, 300 eels and another 2000 eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 52.34026 | 0.411017 | 51.280233 | 1.0789089 | ||
Isleham | 1086 | 1250 | 1 mill | King William | Payments: mill, 1250 eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 52.340264 | 0.411017 | 52.340264 | 0.411017 | ||
Iver | 1086 | 1500 | 4 fisheries | Robert d'Oilly | fish every Friday for the reeve's work | Payments: 4 fisheries, 1500 eels and fish every Friday for the village reeve's work. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 51.520194 | -0.509572 | 51.520194 | -0.509572 | |
Kingston [upon Thames] | 1086 | 125 | Walter son of Other | Duplicates: 2 hides possibly duplicated in 39 hides of 1,8. Payments: 125 eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 51.41233 | -0.30069 | 51.41233 | -0.30069 | |||
Kirtling | 1086 | 5500 | 1 fishery | Countess Judith | Payments: fishery, 5500 eels. Ploughteams: 1 possible lordship plough (ICC). | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 52.186447 | 0.471385 | 52.186447 | 0.471385 | ||
Landbeach | 1086 | 1000 | marsh | Picot of Cambridge | 12 d. | Payments: 1000 eels and 12d from marsh. Geld: manorial total and 1066 particulars disagree. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 52.26616 | 0.162313 | 52.205337 | 0.121817 | |
Landbeach | 1086 | 450 | uncertain | Count Alan | Payments: marsh, 450 eels. Satellite: 1 virgate (claimed by Ely Abbey), value 5s. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 52.26616 | 0.162313 | 52.26616 | 0.162313 | ||
Lavendon | 1086 | 250 | 1 mill | Bishop of Coutances | Payments: mill, 250 eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 52.170791 | -0.660084 | 49.047778 | -1.445833 | ||
Lavendon | 1086 | 50 | 1 mill | Count of Mortain | Payments: mill, 50 eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 52.170791 | -0.660084 | 48.649222 | -0.941546 | ||
Lechlade | 1086 | 175 | uncertain | Henry of Ferrers | Geld: 6 hides exempt. Payments: 175 eels; £7 7s from meadows besides hay for the oxen; burgesses, 16d. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 51.69978 | -1.69145 | 51.69978 | -1.69145 | ||
Leconfield | 1086 | 4000 | 1 fishery | Count of Mortain | Payments: fishery, 4000 eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 53.876265 | -0.455482 | 48.649222 | -0.941546 | ||
Leconfield | 1086 | 2400 | 10 fisheries | William of Percy | Payments: 10 fisheries, 2400 eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 53.87626 | -0.455482 | 53.87626 | -0.455482 | ||
Leominster | 1086 | 1 | uncertain | King William | Shared statistics: 1,10a-c. Payments: by 14 named tenants, possibly additional to value, of £23 2s besides the eels. Value £60 besides the supplies of the nuns; could be £120, recorded as Render. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 52.2257 | -2.742772 | 52.2257 | -2.742772 | ||
Linden [End] | 1086 | 3333 | uncertain | Abbey of Ely | Payments: fisheries, 3333 eels; presentations, 4s. Satellite: IE Brev. 5 men's ploughs; cottagers counted as smallholders. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 53.04752 | -2.298295 | 52.3995 | 0.263779 | ||
Little Barford | 1086 | 125 | Abbey of Ramsey | Payments: 125 eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 52.198745 | -0.273019 | 52.448333 | -0.100833 | |||
Little Ness | 1086 | 600 | 1 mill | Reginald the sheriff | Payments: mill, 600 eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 52.770916 | -2.878331 | 52.770916 | -2.878331 | ||
Little Thetford | 1086 | 500 | fisheries | Abbey of Ely | Payments: fisheries, 500 eels; presentations, 4 1/2 d. Satellite: lordship hides from IE. IENV, 1 men's plough; cottagers counted as smallholders. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 52.362518 | 0.248413 | 52.3995 | 0.263779 | ||
Littleport | 1086 | 17000 | fisheries | Abbey of Ely | Payments: fisheries, 17000 eels; presentations of fish, 12s 9d. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 52.456702 | 0.3073659 | 52.3995 | 0.263779 | ||
Longstanton [All Saints and St Michael] | 1086 | 3200 | mash | Gilbert son of Turold | 2 s. 8 d. | Payments: marsh, 3200 eels and 2s 8d. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 52.2729517 | 0.0548 | 52.2729517 | 0.0548 | |
Lower and Upper Burgate | 1086 | 1000 | uncertain | King William | Shared statistics: 1,36-38. Payments: 1000 eels; woodland and pasture which paid 40 pigs and 10s (not recorded) in the Forest. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 50.94105 | -1.78417 | 50.94105 | -1.78417 | ||
Lower and Upper Heyford | 1086 | 900 | uncertain | Robert d'Oilly | Payments: 900 eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 50.94105 | -1.78417 | 50.94105 | -1.78417 | ||
Lower Winchendon | 1086 | 80 | 1 mill | Walter Giffard | Payments: mill, 80 eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 51.8021 | -0.940112 | 51.8021 | -0.940112 | ||
Lullingstone | 1086 | 150 | uncertain | Bishop Odo of Bayeux | Values: 3s assumed to be additional. Payments: 150 eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 51.363937 | 0.196355 | 49.2777 | -0.706472 | ||
Lyminge | 1086 | 40 | uncertain | Archbishop of Canterbury | Values: subholdings assumed to be additional. Payments: 40 eels. Landowners: Domesday Monachorum supplies details of subholdings. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 51.128996 | 1.089688 | 51.280233 | 1.0789089 | ||
Maidstone | 1086 | 450 | 4.5 fisheries | Archbishop of Canterbury | Payments: salt-houses, none recorded; fisheries, 450 eels. Details of subholdings from Domesday Monachorum, assumed to be additional. Values: Cola and Wulfric pay 20s to monks. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 51.270363 | 0.522699 | 51.280233 | 1.0789089 | ||
Marden | 1086 | 625 | King William | Geld: not given; 2 paid tax. Payments: 9 packloads of salt; fishery without dues; salt-houses; 25 sticks of eels. Duplicates: 2 hides duplicated in 16,3-4; 1 virgate probably in 35,1. Other population: 4 freedmen, 8 servants. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 51.1888 | 0.501163 | 51.1888 | 0.501163 | |||
Marlow and [Little] Marlow | 1086 | 1000 | 1 fishery | Queen Matilda | Payments: 1 fishery, 1000 eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 51.586038 | -0.737125 | 51.586038 | -0.737125 | ||
Marlow and [Little] Marlow | 1086 | 500 | 1 fishery | Bishop Odo of Bayeux | Payments: fishery, 500 eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 51.586038 | -0.737125 | 49.2777 | -0.706472 | ||
Martley | 1086 | 2625 | 2 weirs | King William | Duplicates: 10.25 (or 13) hides duplicated in WOR X3. Payments: 2 weirs, 2500 eels and 5 sticks; 3 houses, 12d; villagers, 12s. Other population: 4 riders, 1 beadle, 1 reeve. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 52.23832 | -2.365495 | 52.23832 | -2.365495 | ||
Medmenham | 1086 | 1000 | 1 fishery | Hugh of Bolbec | Payments: 1 fishery, 1000 eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 51.55219 | -0.84013 | 51.55219 | -0.84013 | ||
Merestone | 1086 | 500 | uncertain | King William | Duplicates: 2 hides duplicated in 9,1. Payments: 500 eels; customary dues 95s; woodland, mills, villagers, freedmen. Abbey of Cormeilles holds churches, number unspecified, 2 recorded (1,6). | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 52.4745177 | -0.71129 | 52.4745177 | -0.71129 | ||
Meretown | 1086 | 4000 | uncertain | King William | Payments: 4000 eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 52.7796 | -2.36439 | 52.7796 | -2.36439 | ||
Methwold | 1086 | 2000 | uncertain | Earl of Surrey | 1130 rent deeded to the Priory of Castleacre by the 2nd earl of Surrey indicates a previous rent due to the earlÕs family. 1086 is a guess, aligned with Doomsday accounting. | Book | Francis Blomefield, 'Freebridge Hundred and Half: Castleacre', in An Essay Towards A Topographical History of the County of Norfolk: Volume 8 (London, 1808), pp. 356-377. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/topographical-hist-norfolk/vol8/pp356-377 [accessed 17 August 2017]. | 52.520234 | 0.476586 | 52.520234 | 0.476586 | ||
Midelney | 1086 | 6000 | uncertain | Abbey of Muchelney | Geld: 4 carucates which never paid tax in 3 islands. Payments: 6000 eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 51.00397 | -2.84029 | 51.0153 | -2.80481 | ||
Milton | 1086 | 650 | marsh | Picot of Cambridge | 12 d. | Payments: marsh, 650 eels and 12d. Satellite: IE 4 men's ploughs. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 52.243439 | 0.16144 | 52.205337 | 0.121817 | |
Monkland | 1086 | 625 | 1 mill | Ralph of Tosny | Geld: 1 hide did not pay tax because it was in lordship. Payments: mill, 25 sticks of eels; meadow, 5s. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 52.211736 | -2.79834 | 52.35552 | -1.1743197 | ||
North Charford | 1086 | 1250 | 1 mill | Edward of Salisbury | Payments: mill, 1,250 eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 50.974217 | -1.71872 | 52.35552 | -1.1743197 | ||
Oakley | 1086 | 200 | 1 mill | Robert of Tosny | Payments: mill, 200 eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 51.79987 | -1.072272 | 52.35552 | -1.1743197 | ||
Odell | 1086 | 200 | 1 mill | Walter of Flanders | 36 s. 8 d. | Payments: mill, 200 eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 52.216266 | -0.599064 | 52.35552 | -1.1743197 | |
Olney | 1086 | 200 | 1 mill | Bishop of Coutances | 40 s. | Payments: mill, 200 eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 52.154738 | -0.701378 | 49.047778 | -1.445833 | |
Ombersley | 1086 | 2000 | 1.5 fisheries | Abbey of Evesham | Payments: in Droitwich 1 salt-house; 1 1/2 fisheries, 2000 eels. Other population: 2 riders and 10 ploughmen. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 52.2711405 | -2.228779 | 52.09215 | -1.94677 | ||
Orleton | 1086 | 1000 | 2 fisheries | Gilbert son of Turold | Payments: 2 fisheries, 40 sticks of eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 52.29695 | -2.748732 | 52.29695 | -2.748732 | ||
Oundle | 1086 | 250 | 1 mill | Abbot of Peterborough | 20 s. | King Edgar in 972 confirmed to the monks of Peterborough the 'tun' called OUNDLE, with all that lies thereto, called the Eight Hundreds, and market and toll, so freely that neither king, bishop, earl nor sheriff may interfere, but only the abbot. (fn. 56) This was confirmed by later kings. (fn. 57) In 1086 the abbot had 6 hides in Oundle. The mill was let for 20s. and 250 eels. | Doomsday | 'Parishes: Oundle', in A History of the County of Northampton: Volume 3, ed. William Page (London, 1930), pp. 85-101. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/northants/vol3/pp85-101 [accessed 17 August 2017]. | 52.480841 | -0.468752 | 52.5725 | -0.238889 | |
Petersham | 1086 | 1000 | 1 fishery | Abbey of Chertsey | 1000 lampeys | Payments: fishery, 1000 eels and 1000 lampreys. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 51.451051 | -0.29908 | 51.3865 | -0.5095 | |
Pinchbeck | 1086 | 1500 | Ivo Tallboys | Shared statistics: 14,97-100, valuation recorded in 14,97. Payments: 1,500 eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 52.81368 | -0.158833 | 52.81368 | -0.158833 | |||
Putnoe | 1086 | 100 | 1 mill | Hugh of Beauchamp | Payments: mill, 100 eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 52.14845 | -0.4391394 | 52.14845 | -0.4391394 | ||
Raunds | 1086 | 1000 | uncertain | Bishop of Coutances | Payments: 100 eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 52.34169 | -0.541032 | 49.047778 | -1.445833 | ||
Remenham | 1086 | 1000 | 1 mill | King William | Payments: mill, 1000 eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 51.55162 | -0.8865 | 51.55162 | -0.8865 | ||
Richards Castle | 1086 | 375 | Robert Gernon | Payments: 4 measures of corn and 15 sticks of eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 52.3203 | -2.741852 | 52.3203 | -2.741852 | |||
Roxton | 1086 | 200 | 1 mill | William Speke | Payments: mill, 200 eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 52.17575 | -0.315953 | 52.17575 | -0.315953 | ||
Rye [House] | 1086 | 200 | weirs | Bishop Odo of Bayeux | Payments: hay, 10s; weirs, 200 eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 51.767234 | 0.007 | 49.2777 | -0.70647 | ||
Seal | 1086 | 90 | 1 fishery | Bishop Odo of Bayeux | Payments: 90 eels. Values: Richard's £6 assumed to be additional. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 51.268174 | 0.238948 | 49.2777 | -0.706472 | ||
Selham | 1086 | 100 | uncertain | Earl Roger (of Shrewsbury) | Payments: 100 eels; 1 site in Chichester, 7d. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 50.977527 | -0.669215 | 50.977527 | -0.669215 | ||
Sessingham | 1086 | 500 | 1 mill | Count of Mortain | 10 s. | Geld: 1/2 hide in Hastings Rape assumed to be recorded there (see 9,47). Payments: mill, 10s and 500 eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 50.85651 | 0.188502 | 48.649222 | -0.941546 | |
Shabbington | 1086 | 100 | 1 fishery | Miles Crispin | Payments: fishery, 100 eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 51.7567126 | -1.0362469 | 51.7567126 | -1.0362469 | ||
Sheffield | 1086 | 500 | 1 mill | Count of Mortain | 40 d. | Payments: mill, 40d and 500 eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 53.38113 | -1.4701 | 48.649222 | -0.941546 | |
Shelsley [Beauchamp and Walsh] | 1086 | 400 | uncertain | Osbern son of Richard | Duplicates: 3,2 and 19, 4-7 6 hides in Kyre duplicated in GLS 1,11; 6,1 and 19,3;5-6;8-9; 10 hides in Clifton duplicated in GLS 1,11. Payments: 16 sticks of eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 52.2649 | -2.40896 | 52.2649 | -2.40896 | ||
Shifford | 1086 | 250 | Bishop of Lincoln | 4 s. 4 d. | Payments: 250 eels and 4s 4d. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 51.714247 | -1.463823 | 53.230688 | -0.540579 | ||
Shinfield | 1086 | 700 | 1 mill, 5 fisheries | King William | Payments: mill, 150 eels; 5 fisheries, 550 eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 51.4083203 | -0.947833 | 51.4083203 | -0.947833 | ||
Soham | 1086 | 3500 | 1 mill | King William | presentation of fish 3x per year | Geld: ICC, 'less 6 acres'. Payments: 3500 eels from fisheries and presentation of fish three times a year from fishermen. Duplicates: 6 hides and 40 acres duplicated in 1,13. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 52.335212 | 0.337508 | 52.335212 | 0.337508 | |
Soham | 1086 | 1500 | 1 fishery | Count Alan | Payments: 1500 eels, 1 fishing net in Soham Mere. Satellite: ICC 3 men's ploughs and 1 possible. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 52.335212 | 0.337508 | 52.335212 | 0.337508 | ||
Somerton | 1086 | 400 | 1 mill | Bishop of Bayeux | 20 s. | Rainald Wadard holds of the Bishop Sumertone [Somerton]. There are 9 h. There is land for 9 ploughs. Now in demesne (there are) 2 ploughs with 1 serf; and 17 villeins with 9 bordars have 7 ploughs. There (is) a mill rendering (de) 20 s. and 400 eels, and (there are) 40 acres of meadow and 156 acres of pasture. It was worth 9 li.; now (it is worth) 12 li. | Doomsday | 'The Domesday survey: The Text', in A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 1, ed. L F Salzman (London, 1939), pp. 396-428. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/oxon/vol1/pp396-428 [accessed 28 July 2017]. | 51.055 | -2.73379 | 49.2777 | -0.706472 | |
Sopley | 1086 | 875 | 1 mill | William son of Stur | Geld: the King has 4 hides and the whole wood of this manor in his Forest; value of all this 110s, presumably lost to manor. Payments: mill, 875 eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 50.7721 | -1.77771 | 50.7721 | -1.77771 | ||
South Malling | 1086 | 2000 | 1 mill | Archbishop of Canterbury | Geld: 5 hides outside Hundred, 12.583 in 2,1b-g. Values: previously held at a revenue (£90). Payments: grazing, 38s 6d; mill, 2000 eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 50.88307 | 0.02013 | 51.280233 | 1.0789089 | ||
South Preston | 1086 | 250 | uncertain | Archbishop of Canterbury | Payments: fishery, 250 eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 53.763201 | -2.70309 | 51.280233 | 1.0789089 | ||
South Stoke | 1086 | 300 | Bishop of Lincoln | Shared statistics: 6,1a-c;9, geld. Geld: of 90 hides, 59.75 are the bishop's, disaggregated in 6,1b-c; remaining 30.25 in 6,9. Payments: 12 sticks of eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 51.55697 | -1.123036 | 53.230688 | -0.540579 | |||
Southoe | 1086 | 1000 | 1 fishery | Eustace the sheriff | Payments: fishery, 1000 eels; 3 presentations a year, value 49d. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 52.26447 | -0.267155 | 52.26447 | -0.267155 | ||
Spernall | 1086 | 175 | 1 mill | William Bonvallet | Payments: mill, and 7 sticks of eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 52.2605 | -1.875137 | 52.2605 | -1.875137 | ||
Stanford | 1086 | 50 | 1 mill | Eudo the steward | Payments: mill, 50 eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 52.65128 | -0.48022 | 52.65128 | -0.48022 | ||
Stanton[bury] | 1086 | 50 | 1 mill | Miles Crispin | Payments: mill, 50 eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 52.0663 | -0.7686 | 52.0663 | -0.7686 | ||
Stanwell | 1086 | 1375 | 4 mills, 3 weirs | Walter son of Other | 70 s. | Payments: 4 mills, 70s and 375 eels; 3 weirs, 1000. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 51.457942 | -0.47427 | 51.457942 | -0.47427 | |
Staple [Fitzpaine] | 1086 | 50 | uncertain (1 garden?) | Count of Mortain | Payments: a garden in Langport; 50 eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 50.9599 | -3.052 | 48.649222 | -0.941546 | ||
Steyning | 1086 | 200 | uncertain | Robert of Vessey | Payments: 200 eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 50.8874 | -0.32668 | 50.8874 | -0.32668 | ||
Stotfold | 1086 | 400 | 1 mill | Hugh of Beauchamp | Payments: mill, 400 eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 52.0162 | -0.232293 | 52.0162 | -0.232293 | ||
Stratford [-upon-Avon] | 1086 | 1000 | uncertain | Bishop of Worcester | Payments: 1000 eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 52.19173 | -1.708298 | 52.193636 | -2.221575 | ||
Stretham | 1086 | 3250 | uncertain | Abbey of Ely | Payments: fisheries, 3250 eels; presentations, 7s 7d. Satellite: IE, 3 ploughs in lordship; only 12 villagers. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 52.3495 | 0.2203029 | 52.3995 | 0.263779 | ||
Stuntney | 1086 | 24000 | uncertain | Abbey of Ely | Payments: fisheries, 24000 eels; presentations, 18s. Satellite: IE Brev. 2 ploughs in lordship cottagers counted as smallholders, intermediate valuation £10. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 52.3804 | 0.28409 | 52.3995 | 0.263779 | ||
Sudbury | 1086 | 100 | uncertain | Henry of Ferrers | Payments: 100 eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 52.04105 | 0.726706 | 52.04105 | 0.726706 | ||
Sutton [St Michael and St Nicholas] | 1086 | 175 | 1 mill | Nigel the doctor | Payments: mill, 7 sticks of eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 53.42938 | -2.72017 | 53.42938 | -2.72017 | ||
Sutton [St Michael and St Nicholas] | 1086 | 200 | uncertain | Nigel the doctor | Payments: 8 sticks of eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 53.42938 | -2.72017 | 53.42938 | -2.72017 | ||
Swaffham [Bulbeck and Prior] | 1086 | 300 | uncertain | Walter Giffard | Payments: 300 eels. Satellite: mill value 30s less 3d instead of 4d. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 52.23731 | 0.276382 | 52.23731 | 0.276382 | ||
Swaffham [Bulbeck and Prior] | 1086 | 100 | 1 mill | Count Alan | Payments: mill, 100 eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 52.23731 | 0.276382 | 52.23731 | 0.276382 | ||
Swavesey | 1086 | 3750 | fisheries | Count Alan | Payments: fisheries, 3750 eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 52.301064 | -0.004534 | 52.301064 | -0.004534 | ||
Swavesey | 1086 | 225 | marsh | Gilbert of Ghent | Payments: marsh, 225 eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 52.301064 | -0.004534 | 52.301064 | -0.004534 | ||
Taplow | 1086 | 1000 | 1 fishery | Bishop Odo of Bayeux | Payments: 1 fishery, 1000 eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 51.53217 | -0.68796 | 49.2777 | -0.706472 | ||
Tarrant [Keyneston] | 1086 | 1000 | 1 mill | Bishop of Lisieux | Payments: mill, 1000 eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 50.84216 | -2.112994 | 49.145921 | 0.227849 | ||
Taynton | 1086 | 0 | uncertain | Abbey of Paris | 62 s. 6 d. | Payments: eels, 62s 6d;
quarries, meadows and pasture, 24s 7d.; Payment made in lieu of eels,
probably because of the distance The Church of St. Denis of Paris holds of the King Teigtone [Taynton]. King Edward gave it to that church. There are 10 h. (There is) land for 15 ploughs. Now in demesne there are 4 (ploughs) and 4 serfs; and 17 villeins with 30 bordars have 17 ploughs. There (are) 2 mills rendering (de) 32 s. and 6 d., and 62 s. and 6 d. for eels. |
Doomsday | Palmer Dataset; 'The Domesday survey: The Text', in A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 1, ed. L F Salzman (London, 1939), pp. 396-428. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/oxon/vol1/pp396-428 [accessed 28 July 2017]. | 51.82147 | -1.65768 | 48.856614 | 2.3522219 | |
Tempsford | 1086 | 120 | 1 mill | Bishop of Lincoln | Payments: mill, 120 eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 52.17058 | -0.291797 | 53.230688 | -0.540579 | ||
Thrup | 1086 | 125 | 1 mill | Roger de Iveri | 6 s. | The son of Wadard holds of Roger Trop [Thrup]. There are 3 h. There is land for 6 ploughs. Now in demesne (there are) 2 ploughs with one serf, and a mill rendering (de) 6s. and 125 eels. There (are) 30 acres of meadow and as many acres of pasture. It was and is worth 6 li. Lewi, a man of Archbishop Stigand, held it. | Doomsday | 'The Domesday survey: The Text', in A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 1, ed. L F Salzman (London, 1939), pp. 396-428. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/oxon/vol1/pp396-428 [accessed 28 July 2017]. | 51.839 | -1.303 | 51.839 | -1.303 | |
Tillington | 1086 | 120 | 1 mill | Earl Roger (of Shrewsbury) | 20 s. | Payments: mill, 20s and 120 eels; 1 site in Chichester, 8d. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 50.99491 | -0.64336 | 50.99491 | -0.64336 | |
Trimworth | 1086 | 60 | 1 mill | Haimo the sheriff | Values: tenant holding assumed to be additional. Payments: mill, 60 eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 51.08672 | 1.15399 | 51.08672 | 1.15399 | ||
Trumpington | 1086 | 500 | weirs | Robert (son of) Fafiton | Satellite: ICC, payments: weir, 500 eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 52.173673 | 0.110348 | 52.173673 | 0.110348 | ||
Trumpington | 1086 | 450 | 1 weir | Picot of Cambridge | Payments: weir, 450 eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 52.173673 | 0.110348 | 52.205337 | 0.121817 | ||
Tudworth [Green] | 1086 | 20000 | fishponds | William of Warenne | Shared statistics: 12W1-28, geld total recorded in 12W1. Payments: fishponds, 20000 eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 53.58377 | -0.96288 | -53.58377 | -0.96288 | ||
Ulceby | 1086 | 500 | 1 mill | Erneis of Buron | Payments: mill, 500 eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 53.617983 | -0.33065 | 53.6179831 | 53.617983 | ||
Upton | 1086 | 1000 | 1 fishery | King William | Payments: fishery, 1000 eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 53.386561 | -3.0986539 | 53.386561 | -3.0986539 | ||
Ware | 1086 | 375 | uncertain | Hugh of Grandmesnil | Other population: 1 village reeve, 3 Frenchmen, 2 Englishmen, 32 men. Payments: 375 eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 51.810437 | -0.028177 | 51.810437 | -0.028177 | ||
Wargrave | 1086 | 3000 | 3 fisheries | King William | Payments: 3 fisheries, 3000 eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 51.5003 | -0.8645275 | 51.5003 | -0.8645275 | ||
Warmington | 1086 | 325 | 1 mill | 40 s. | In 1086 the abbey held, as it had held in 1066, 10 hides in Warmington. Of these 7_ were held in demesne; the mill rendered 40s. and 325 eels yearly. The value in 1066 was 5s., but in 1086 it had risen to £11, pointing to ruthless devastation just before the Conquest | Doomsday | 'Parishes: Warmington', in A History of the County of Northampton: Volume 3, ed. William Page (London, 1930), pp. 113-122. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/northants/vol3/pp113-122 [accessed 10 August 2017]. | 52.507863 | -0.410768 | 52.507863 | -0.410768 | ||
Wasperton | 1086 | 1000 | 2 mill | Abbey of Coventry | 20 s. and 4 packloads of salt | Payments: mill, 20s, 4 packloads of salt and 1000 eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 52.22963 | -1.60709 | 52.4068 | -1.519693 | |
Wateringbury | 1086 | 30 | 1 fishery | Bishop Odo of Bayeux | Payments: fishery, 30 eels; 3 sites (in Rochester), 3s. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 51.254896 | 0.423035 | 49.2777 | -0.706472 | ||
West Burton | 1086 | 200 | Roger of Bully | Shared statistics: 9,116-117, valuation recorded here. Payments: fishery, 200 eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 54.27534 | -1.975145 | 54.27534 | -1.975145 | |||
West Wycombe | 1086 | 1000 | 1 fishery | Bishop of Winchester | Payments: fishery, 1000 eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 51.64457 | -0.803234 | 51.05977 | -1.310142 | ||
Wheldrake | 1086 | 2000 | 3 fisheries | William of Percy | Payments: 3 fisheries, 2000 eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 53.89632 | -0.9637572 | 53.89632 | -0.9637572 | ||
Whistley | 1086 | 550 | 1 mill, 1 fishery | Abbey of Abingdon | Payments: mill, 250 eels; fishery, 300 eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 51.462186 | -0.860399 | 51.67078 | -1.2879529 | ||
Wicken | 1086 | 4520 | Count Alan | Payments: mill, 4520 eels; 3 fishing nets in Soham Mere. Values: ICC 1086 valuation 38s, 1066 £16. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 52.312532 | 0.2982639 | -0.9637572 | 0.2982639 | |||
Willington | 1086 | 100 | 1 mill | Hugh of Beauchamp | Payments: mill, 100 eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 52.8534194 | -1.56489 | 52.8534194 | -1.56489 | ||
Winkton | 1086 | 450 | 2 mills | Waleran the hunter | Geld: the King has 1.125 hides and all the woodland of this manor in his Forest; he gave another 0.125 hide to a priest. Values: 110s in the Forest, assumed to be lost to manor. Mills: 2 for the hall. Payments: 450 eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 50.76411 | -1.771998 | 50.76411 | -1.771998 | ||
Wisbech | 1086 | 3500 | uncertain | William of Warenne | 5 s. | Payments: 3500 eels and 5s. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 52.66632 | 0.158797 | 52.66632 | 0.158797 | |
Wisbech | 1086 | 5260 | 8 fishermen | Abbey of Ramsey | Payments: 8 fishermen, 5260 eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 52.66632 | 0.158797 | 52.448333 | -0.100833 | ||
Wisbech | 1086 | 14000 | uncertain | Abbey of Ely | Payments: 14000 eels; presentations, 13s 4d. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 52.66632 | 0.158797 | 52.398802 | 0.263779 | ||
Wisbech | 1086 | 1500 | uncertain | Abbey of Ely | Payments: fisheries, 1500 eels. Satellite: IE 18 cottagers; IE Brev. 18 smallholders; 12 from presentations of fishery from IE. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 52.66632 | 0.158797 | 52.3995 | 0.263779 | ||
Wisbech | 1086 | 5000 | 1 fisherman | Abbey of Bury St Edmunds | Payments: 1 fisherman, 5000 eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 52.66632 | 0.158797 | 52.242923 | 0.7104932 | ||
Wisbech Manors | 1086 | 4000 | 3 fishermen | The Abbot of Crowland | In 1086 Wisbech was held by the abbot, and rated at 10 hides, of which 1 hide and 1 virgate with 2 ploughs were in demesne. It was by no means one of the wealthiest of the Ely manors, its value (£6 T.R.E., 100s. in 1086) being below that of Ely itself and of more than half of the manors in the two hundreds of Ely. The fisheries were important. One belonged to the manor. It rendered 1,500 eels, and two fishermen in the vill paid the abbot 13s. 4d. and 14,000 eels. Another fisherman produced 5,000 eels for the abbot of Bury St. Edmunds, 8 fishermen rendered 5,260 eels to the Abbot of Ramsey, 3 rendered 4,000 to the Abbot of Crowland and 6 rendered 3,500 and 5s. to William de Warenne. | Doomsday | T D Atkinson, Ethel M Hampson, E T Long, C A F Meekings, Edward Miller, H B Wells and G M G Woodgate, 'Wisbech: Manors', in A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely: Volume 4, City of Ely; Ely, N. and S. Witchford and Wisbech Hundreds, ed. R B Pugh (London, 2002), pp. 243-245. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/cambs/vol4/pp243-245 [accessed 28 July 2017]. | 52.66 | 0.1587 | 52.67638 | -0.16521 | ||
Wixford | 1086 | 500 | uncertain | Abbey of Evesham | Payments: 20 sticks of eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 52.186432 | -1.867932 | 52.09215 | -1.94677 | ||
Wooburn | 1086 | 300 | 1 fishery | Bishop of Lincoln | Payments: fishery, 300 eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 51.58134 | -0.69277 | 53.230688 | -0.540579 | ||
Wootton [Wawen] | 1086 | 200 | 2 mills | Robert of Stafford | 11 s. | Payments: 2 mills, 11s and 8 sticks of eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 52.26732 | -1.78342 | 52.26732 | -1.78342 | |
Wormley | 1086 | 50 | .5 weir | Count Alan | Payments: 1/2 weir, 50 eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 51.732136 | -0.023451 | 51.732136 | -0.023451 | ||
Wye | 1086 | 300 | 1 fisherman | Abbey of Battle | 2 s. | Values: when received at 20 pence to the ora; if abbot had full jurisdictions, value would be another £20. Payments: dues, 6d; Adelulf, 12d; Hugh de Montfort, 300 eels and 2s. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 51.181903 | 0.937883 | 50.9174 | 0.48368 | |
Wyre Piddle | 1086 | 500 | 1 mill | Abbey of Pershore | Shared Statistics: 9,1a-1e, geld total (26 hides) recorded here exceeded by particulars (28). Payments: salt-house in Droitwich, 30 measures of salt; mill at Wyre Piddle, 20 sticks of eels. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 52.12529 | -2.050522 | 52.109994 | -2.074814 | ||
Yalding | 1086 | 1700 | fisheries | Richard of Tonbridge | Payments: fisheries, 1700 eels. Values: now £20 because the land has been despoiled of livestock. | Doomsday | Palmer Dataset | 51.2236 | 0.430255 | 51.1995 | 0.171417 | ||
Tapenhall | 1095 | 750 | 1 mill | Worcester Priory kitchen | Bishop Wulfstan gave a mill at
Tapenhall to the priory of Worcester in the 11th century. The
tenant of the mill was obliged to supply the master of the kitchen of the
monastery with 30 'stiches' of eels or their equivalent in money, and
the miller had to feed the horses which brought meal to be ground at the
mill. Date is based on Bishop WulfstanÕs death in 1095. |
'Parishes: Claines', in A History of the County of Worcester: Volume 3 (London, 1913), pp. 300-308. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/worcs/vol3/pp300-308 [accessed 28 August 2017]. | 52.229308 | -2.201464 | 52.193636 | -2.221575 | |||
Ely | 1100c | 1540 | 1 fishery | Hurley Priory | Geoffrey grants to God and to
St. Peter the church of Westminster, as also to the church of St. Mary of
HurleyÑ for the salvation of his own soul and that of his wife Leceline ('at
whose counsel by the providence of divine grace I began this work'), and for
the soul of Athalais his first wife and mother of his children, and for the
souls of his heirs and successorsÉ É To these he added a fishery in the isle of Ely that supplied 1,500 dried eels and 40 fat eels; and from the hamlet of Mose (Essex) a supply of 3,000 dried herrings. Worth noting here the distinction between types of eels. |
'Houses of Benedictine monks: The priory of Hurley', in A History of the County of Berkshire: Volume 2, ed. P H Ditchfield and William Page (London, 1907), pp. 73-77. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/berks/vol2/pp73-77 [accessed 25 July 2017]. | 52.398802 | 0.263779 | 51.5496 | -0.8097 | |||
Cranwich | 1100c. | 1000 | 1 man | Castleacre Priory | 2 s. | Peter gave to the convent of CastleAcre, founded by the Earl Warren, part of a wood, 2s. per annum in tithes, two solidates and a half of land, and a thousand eels, per annum | Monastery Records | Francis Blomefield, 'Hundred of Grimeshou: Cranwich', in An Essay Towards A Topographical History of the County of Norfolk: Volume 2 (London, 1805), pp. 222-228. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/topographical-hist-norfolk/vol2/pp222-228 [accessed 10 August 2017]. | 52.5217 | 0.6244 | 52.700528 | 0.683556 | |
Welles | 1103 | 5000 | 1 fishery | Priory of the Virgin Mary and St. Andrew (Horham St. Faith) | Bishop Herbert appropriated to the monastery, after their next vacancies, reserving canonical obedience from the clerks that should serve there; the said Roger also gave them the manor of Snarishill, with the advowsons, and Gunner of Ridlesworth with his land, and the land which he held of the Abbot of Ely in Rushworth; Ñ5000 eels paid yearly from Welles, with a fishery there called Roxere or Kawer: | Monastic Record | Francis Blomefield, 'Priors: Of the priory of the virgin Mary and St. Andrew', in An Essay Towards A Topographical History of the County of Norfolk: Volume 2 (London, 1805), pp. 107-127. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/topographical-hist-norfolk/vol2/pp107-127 [accessed 28 July 2017]. | 52.612299 | 0.236705 | 52.686643 | 1.280674 | ||
Elingeya (Hilgay) | 1107 | 2000 | Wymondham Abbey | The priory of Wimondham was founded in the time of King Henry I. by Will de Albani, É Henry I. King of England, the foundation being completed, confirmed to God, and St. Alban, and the church of St. Mary in Windham, all the gifts of William de Albani, his Butler, with these that he gave, besides what is aforementioned, viz. all his tenants that he held of the Earl Warrenin Windham, 40s. land in Hahilla or Hethill, a marsh in Redham, a rent of 2000 eels a year from Elingeya or Helgay, all wrec from the division on the coast between Eccles and Happisburgh | Charter | Francis Blomefield, 'Hundred of Forehoe: Windham', in An Essay Towards A Topographical History of the County of Norfolk: Volume 2 (London, 1805), pp. 498-534. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/topographical-hist-norfolk/vol2/pp498-534 [accessed 28 August 2017]. | 52.55839 | 0.38978 | 52.57055 | 1.108333 | |||
Stuntney | 1109 | 23000 | uncertain | Abbey of Ely | The division of the monastic estates between the see and the convent [1109] inevitably led to complaints. The monks' share included six manors within the Isle, another six in the county of Cambridge, twelve in Suffolk, with the jurisdiction over the five and a half hundreds; from Stuntney they were to receive yearly 23,000 eels and from Dunwich 30,000 herringsÉ | Doomsday | 'Houses of Benedictine monks: Abbey and cathedral priory of Ely', in A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely: Volume 2, ed. L F Salzman (London, 1948), pp. 199-210. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/cambs/vol2/pp199-210 [accessed 20 August 2017]. | 52.3804 | 0.28409 | 52.398802 | 0.263779 | ||
Alexander Blundel | 1110 | 200 | 1 fisherman | Abbey of Abingdon | 214 b. Total sticks of eels From Culham, 20 sticks. From Ascelin, 12 sticks. From Thrupp, 7 sticks. From Alexander Blundel, 8. From Swinford, 17 sticks. From Whistley, 24 sticks. From Harrowdown, 8 sticks. |
Monastery Records | Hudson, John, ed. Historia Ecclesie Abbendonensis: The History of the Church of Abingdon. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2002. (338) | 51.67078 | -1.2879529 | 51.67078 | -1.2879529 | Location uncertain. GIS location based on Abingdon. | |
Ascelin | 1110 | 500 | uncertain | Abbey of Abingdon | 214 b. Total sticks of eels From Culham, 20 sticks. From Ascelin, 12 sticks. From Thrupp, 7 sticks. From Alexander Blundel, 8. From Swinford, 17 sticks. From Whistley, 24 sticks. From Harrowdown, 8 sticks. |
Monastery Records | Hudson, John, ed. Historia Ecclesie Abbendonensis: The History of the Church of Abingdon. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2002. (338) | 51.67078 | -1.2879529 | 51.67078 | -1.2879529 | uncertain where Ascelin is. GIS location for Abingdon | |
Culham | 1110 | 500 | uncertain | Abbey of Abingdon | 214 b. Total sticks of eels From Culham, 20 sticks. From Ascelin, 12 sticks. From Thrupp, 7 sticks. From Alexander Blundel, 8. From Swinford, 17 sticks. From Whistley, 24 sticks. From Harrowdown, 8 sticks. |
Monastery Records | Hudson, John, ed. Historia Ecclesie Abbendonensis: The History of the Church of Abingdon. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2002. (338) | 51.652096 | -1.270273 | 51.67078 | -1.2879529 | ||
Harrowdown | 1110 | 200 | uncertain | Abbey of Abingdon | 214 b. Total sticks of eels From Culham, 20 sticks. From Ascelin, 12 sticks. From Thrupp, 7 sticks. From Alexander Blundel, 8. From Swinford, 17 sticks. From Whistley, 24 sticks. From Harrowdown, 8 sticks. |
Monastery Records | Hudson, John, ed. Historia Ecclesie Abbendonensis: The History of the Church of Abingdon. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2002. (338) | 51.691339 | -1.437603 | 51.67078 | -1.2879529 | Likely what is now Harrowdown Hill, in the parish of Longworth. GIS location is for Longworth. | |
Swinford | 1110 | 425 | uncertain | Abbey of Abingdon | 214 b. Total sticks of eels From Culham, 20 sticks. From Ascelin, 12 sticks. From Thrupp, 7 sticks. From Alexander Blundel, 8. From Swinford, 17 sticks. From Whistley, 24 sticks. From Harrowdown, 8 sticks. |
Monastery Records | Hudson, John, ed. Historia Ecclesie Abbendonensis: The History of the Church of Abingdon. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2002. (338) | 51.773333 | -1.356944 | 51.67078 | -1.2879529 | ||
Thrupp | 1110 | 175 | uncertain | Abbey of Abingdon | 214 b. Total sticks of eels From Culham, 20 sticks. From Ascelin, 12 sticks. From Thrupp, 7 sticks. From Alexander Blundel, 8. From Swinford, 17 sticks. From Whistley, 24 sticks. From Harrowdown, 8 sticks. |
Monastery Records | Hudson, John, ed. Historia Ecclesie Abbendonensis: The History of the Church of Abingdon. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2002. (338) | 51.670464 | -1.250682 | 51.67078 | -1.2879529 | Not the same Thrupp as in Doomsday; this one is just E. of Abingdon | |
Whistley | 1110 | 600 | uncertain | Abbey of Abingdon | 214 b. Total sticks of eels From Culham, 20 sticks. From Ascelin, 12 sticks. From Thrupp, 7 sticks. From Alexander Blundel, 8. From Swinford, 17 sticks. From Whistley, 24 sticks. From Harrowdown, 8 sticks. |
Monastery Records | Hudson, John, ed. Historia Ecclesie Abbendonensis: The History of the Church of Abingdon. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2002. (338) | 51.462186 | -0.860399 | 51.67078 | -1.2879529 | ||
Helgey (Hilgay) | 1110c | 1 | Norwich Priory | Herbert, the founder, first appointed a prior and monks here, in room of secular priests, which had always hitherto attended the Bishops as their chapter; and settled the following revenues, which heretofore belonged to the see, for their maintenance, and got them confirmed by the Pope, King, and Archbishop, vizÉthe Bishop's house at Helgey, and the marsh and eel-rents which belonged to it | Monastery Records | Francis Blomefield, 'City of Norwich, chapter 44: Of the revenues and liberties of the Prior and convent and the Dean and Chapter', in An Essay Towards A Topographical History of the County of Norfolk: Volume 4, the History of the City and County of Norwich, Part II (London, 1806), pp. 556-570. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/topographical-hist-norfolk/vol4/pp556-570 [accessed 30 August 2017]. | 52.559546 | 0.389496 | 52.629208 | 1.299477 | |||
Welles | 1118 | 1 | uncertain | St. Mary de Prato of Leicester (Leicester Abbey) | A gift to the abbey at Nuneaton holds back the eel-rent from Welles because it had been previously granted to Leicester Abbey. Numbers are presently uncertain. Charter of Robert earl of Leicester notifying his gift, to the abbey (abbatie) and convent of the order of Fontevrault that he has founded at Nun Eaton (Eatona), of Eaton itself, with its appurtenances, as he held it on the day king Henry was quick and dead, except the land which the canons of St. Mary de Prato of Leicester hold in Stoccingford, and the nuns of Casa Dei in Atteleberga and Eaton. Moreover he gives the said abbey, in Kevetebiria, land which paid him 25l. rent, and in Welles all his holding and rents there, in lands, fisheries, and everything except the tithe of eels which his father Robert count of Meulan gave the church of St. Mary de Prato of Leicester. | Charter | 'Anjou: Part 1', in Calendar of Documents Preserved in France 918-1206, ed. J Horace Round (London, 1899), pp. 372-394. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/france/918-1206/pp372-394 [accessed 28 August 2017]. | 52.612299 | 0.236705 | 52.648948 | -1.13687 | ||
Warmington | 1125 | 500 | 1 mill | Abbot of Peterborough | 60 s. | The manor proper, that held in
demesne by the abbots, remained undisturbed till the Dissolution. Warmington,
with its churches and mills, was confirmed to the abbey by Eugenius III in
1146 and by Richard I in 1189, as well as by later kings. Its
condition about 1125 is described in detail in the Liber Niger, as
follows: É Also a mill with one yard (virga) of land and 6 acres, rendering 60s. and 500 eels. |
Calendar of Treasury Books / Papers | 'Parishes: Warmington', in A History of the County of Northampton: Volume 3, ed. William Page (London, 1930), pp. 113-122. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/northants/vol3/pp113-122 [accessed 10 August 2017]. | 52.507863 | -0.410768 | 52.5725 | -0.238889 | |
Oundle | 1125c | 200 | 1 mill | Abbot of Peterborough | 20 s. | The whole was worth 5s. in 1066, but in 1086 £11. Land in Thurning, Winwick, Luddington and Hemington belonged to this lordship. Some forty years later the abbot held 6 hides in demesne in Oundle. Yet another document of the same date states that there were 4 hides geldable, out of which 25 men held 20 yardlands, and rendered 20s., 40 hens, and 200 eggs. The men of the town had 9 ploughs, and ploughed once a week in autumn for the lord; and other works were done. There were 15 burgesses, who rendered 30s. The market rendered £4 3s., and the mill 40s. and 200 eels. | Doomsday | 'Parishes: Oundle', in A History of the County of Northampton: Volume 3, ed. William Page (London, 1930), pp. 85-101. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/northants/vol3/pp85-101 [accessed 17 August 2017]. | 52.480841 | -0.468752 | 52.5725 | -0.238889 | |
Burneham | 1130c | 1000 | 1 man | Castleacre Priory | The
said William Earl Warren gaveÉ1000 eels given
by Osmund, the steward, with land in Burneham É This suggests a pre-existing rent due. |
Francis Blomefield, 'Freebridge Hundred and Half: Castleacre', in An Essay Towards A Topographical History of the County of Norfolk: Volume 8 (London, 1808), pp. 356-377. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/topographical-hist-norfolk/vol8/pp356-377 [accessed 17 August 2017]. | 52.793481 | 0.469382 | 52.700528 | 0.683556 | Coordinates are for Castle Rising as a best proximal guess in the Freebridge Hundred. | ||
Methwold | 1130c | 2000 | uncertain | Castleacre Priory | William, the 2d Earl Warren and Surrey, confirmed the aforesaid grant, and that of 2 carucates of land in Acre, given by his father, and all the heath land belonging to Wick, and gave also to the prioryÉUlmar, the mason, in Acra, with his garden and 15 acres of land, 2000 eels in Meleold (Methwold) for ever, 5s. per ann. in land, a garden, and 24 acres of land, to build their churchÉ | Monastery Records | Francis Blomefield, 'Freebridge Hundred and Half: Castleacre', in An Essay Towards A Topographical History of the County of Norfolk: Volume 8 (London, 1808), pp. 356-377. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/topographical-hist-norfolk/vol8/pp356-377 [accessed 17 August 2017]. | 52.520234 | 0.476586 | 52.700528 | 0.683556 | ||
Oteringeheth | 1140 | 1 | 1 fisherman | Castleacre Priory | Robert de Frevill and his wife, and others, gave land at Oteringeheth, with eels | Monastery Records | Francis Blomefield, 'Freebridge Hundred and Half: Castleacre', in An Essay Towards A Topographical History of the County of Norfolk: Volume 8 (London, 1808), pp. 356-377. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/topographical-hist-norfolk/vol8/pp356-377 [accessed 17 August 2017]. | 52.793481 | 0.469382 | 52.700528 | 0.683556 | Coordinates are for Castle Rising as a best proximal guess in the Freebridge Hundred. | |
Sopewelle, Stanekefeld, and two Mills in St. Stephens Parish | 1140c | 1000 | 4 mills | The Cellarar at St. Albans Monastery | De quatuor molendinis scilicet
Sopwelle Stanekefeld et de duobus de Parco millenarium bonarum anguillarum
singulis annis habere debet Cellararius monachorum. Praeterea singulis
hebdomadibus anni debet Recorded during the tenure of Geoffrey, the 16th
abbot (1119-1146). Possible importance of the stress here on Ògood eelsÓ |
Monastery Records | Walsingham, Thomas. Gesta Abbatum Monasterii Sancti Albani, a Thoma Walsingham, Regnante Ricardo Secundo, Ejusdem Ecclesi¾ Pr¾centore, Compilata. Edited by Henry Thomas Riley. Vol. I. Rolls Series. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1869. (75) | 51.735 | -0.36 | 51.750556 | -0.342222 | 4 mills around St. Albans, including 2 in St. Stephens's Parish, which is the source for the coordinates. | |
Harvington | 1143 | 750 | 1 mill | Worcester Priory | 17 s. | At the date of the Domesday Survey there was a mill at Harvington which was worth 10s. a year. This mill was granted by David, Prior of Worcester (1143Ð5), to William Rupe at a yearly rent of 17s. and 30 'stiches' of eels, and in 1212 was the subject of a lawsuit between Thomas Rupe and his wife Joan and Richard and Hugh Sandford and their wives Maud and Olivia | Monastery Records | 'Parishes: Harvington', in A History of the County of Worcester: Volume 3 (London, 1913), pp. 387-390. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/worcs/vol3/pp387-390 [accessed 10 August 2017]. | 52.140282 | -1.921041 | 52.193636 | -2.221575 | |
Wells | 1159 | 0 | uncertain | Nuneaton Abbey | Charter of Robert earl of Leicester notifying his gift, to the abbey (abbatie) and convent of the order of Fontevrault that he has founded at Nun Eaton (Eatona), of Eaton itself, with its appurtenances, as he held it on the day king Henry was quick and dead, except the land which the canons of St. Mary de Prato of Leicester hold in Stoccingford, and the nuns of Casa Dei in Atteleberga and Eaton. Moreover he gives the said abbey, in Kevetebiria, land which paid him 25l. rent, and in Welles all his holding and rents there, in lands, fisheries, and everything except the tithe of eels, which his father Robert count of Meulan gave the church of St. Mary de Prato of Leicester. | 'Anjou: Part 1', in Calendar of Documents Preserved in France 918-1206, ed. J Horace Round (London, 1899), pp. 372-394. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/france/918-1206/pp372-394 [accessed 28 August 2017]. | 52.612299 | -0.236705 | 52.523 | -1.4683 | |||
Chatteris | 1169 | 500 | 2 fisheries | The Bishop of Ely | Nigellus Dei gratia Eliensis episcopus ornnibus hominibus de honore sancte Etheldrede salutem. Universitati vestre notum facimus nos concessisse Deo et ecclesie sancte Marie de Chatriz et monialibus ibidcm Deo servientibus, in piscaria de Polwer', que solet reddere triginta sticcas anguillarum, viginti sticcas in excambio pro decem sticcis quas solebant habere de piscaria de Egeswera de octava nocte, et pro quinque sticcis quas solebant habere de piscaria de Segwere in Westfen et pro quinque sticcis quas solebant habere de piscaria de Northtdelf. Et decem sticcas que supersunt de Pow' damus et concedimus et presenti carta nostra confirmamus prefate ecclesie in liberam et perpetuam elemosinam. Volumus ergo et firmiter precipimus ut prenominata ecclesia et moniales prefatam piscariam cum omnibus pertinentiis et libertatibus suis libere, quiete et honorifice, sicut nos illam unquama melius et liberius tenuimus, habeant et tenendo possideant. T(estibus), etc. | Monastery Records | Breay, Claire, ed. The Cartulary of Chatteris Abbey. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 1999. (206) | 52.4561 | 0.054 | 52.3988 | 0.2638 | ||
Polwere | 1169 | 750 | 2 fisheries | Chatteris Abbey | Nigellus Dei gratia Eliensis episcopus ornnibus hominibus de honore sancte Etheldrede salutem. Universitati vestre notum facimus nos concessisse Deo et ecclesie sancte Marie de Chatriz et monialibus ibidcm Deo servientibus, in piscaria de Polwer', que solet reddere triginta sticcas anguillarum, viginti sticcas in excambio pro decem sticcis quas solebant habere de piscaria de Egeswera de octava nocte, et pro quinque sticcis quas solebant habere de piscaria de Segwere in Westfen et pro quinque sticcis quas solebant habere de piscaria de Northtdelf. Et decem sticcas que supersunt de Pow' damus et concedimus et presenti carta nostra confirmamus prefate ecclesie in liberam et perpetuam elemosinam. Volumus ergo et firmiter precipimus ut prenominata ecclesia et moniales prefatam piscariam cum omnibus pertinentiis et libertatibus suis libere, quiete et honorifice, sicut nos illam unquama melius et liberius tenuimus, habeant et tenendo possideant. T(estibus), etc. | Monastery Records | Breay, Claire, ed. The Cartulary of Chatteris Abbey. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 1999. (206) | 52.495 | 0.061 | 52.4561 | 0.054 | Polwere's location is in doubt. The editors of the English Episcopal Acta 31, Ely 1109-1197 suggest Doddington, by virtue of its proximity in the text of the abbey's records. | |
Hengestewere | 1170c. | 750 | 1 fishery | Church of St. Athewin at Athelynganye | Grant by Gilbert de Helleworthy
to God and the church of S. Athelwin at Athelynganye, for the safety of the souls of King Henry, son of the Empress Matilda, and King Henry senior his grandfather, and King Henry III, that now is, and for the relief of my soul and my parents, of three fisheries in the water which is called Tian, which are called by these names Estwere, Merewere, and the third which Ianswine held with all their belongings on the land and in the water. And in additon 30 sticks of eels from the fishery which is called Hcngestewere; saving the right of tithe of the mother church of North Cory, and all the rights of the King. Witnesses: Thomas the archdeacon, Stephen the prior of Taunton. |
Charter | Harbin, Edward, ed. Two Cartularies of the Benedictine Abbeys of Muchelney and Athelney in the County of Somerset. Translated by Edward Harbin. London: Harrison and Sons, 1899. (167) | 51.0593 | -2.9346 | 51.0593 | -2.9346 | Destination coordinates are for Athelney Abbey. Source is uncertain -- Hengestewere is on the Tone in Somerset, and probably, given the sources' proximity in the text, near North Curry. | |
Burghfield | 1175 | 50 | 1 mill | the manor at Burfield | 13 s. | Thomas Burghfield, who was living in the reign of Henry II, granted it to Nicholas son of Sexus for a yearly rent of 13s. and two sticks of eels. William the miller of Burghfield and son of Nicholas granted the moiety of the mill to the abbey of Reading, the same rent being payable to the overlord, and the grant was confirmed by Robert Burghfield. | County Records | 'Parishes: Burghfield', in A History of the County of Berkshire: Volume 3, ed. P H Ditchfield and William Page (London, 1923), pp. 399-404. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/berks/vol3/pp399-404 [accessed 17 August 2017]. | 51.411686 | -1.04526 | 51.411686 | 1.04526 | |
Aylesbury | 1179 | 9 | 1 man | King Henry II | staw or grass for the king's bed | The reputed manor of OTTERS FEE, or more correctly OTTERERS FEE, originated in the grant made by Henry II to Roger Follus, his otter-hunter, about 1179 of the messuage and 3 virgates in Aylesbury formerly held by Ernisius the Reeve. (fn. 5) It was held by serjeanty, the tenant providing the king with straw for his bed in winter and grass for his 'hospicium' in summer, and with two geese or three eels thrice yearly if the king visited the town | Pipe Roll | 'The borough of Aylesbury: Manors, churches and charities', in A History of the County of Buckingham: Volume 3, ed. William Page (London, 1925), pp. 12-19. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/bucks/vol3/pp12-19 [accessed 22 August 2017]. | 51.8168 | -0.8124 | 51.8168 | -0.8124 | |
Adelwinus Quire de Cumenora | 1180c | 200 | 1 man | Aboot of the Abbey of Abingdon | In capite ieiunii redduntur
istae anguillae. Alfricus de Witelea xxx sticas. Alfricus de Herewaldinduna
viii. Turkillus de Culeham xx. Arnulfus xii. Leofricus Cuceafoc x. Adelwinus
Quire de Cumenora xvi et abbati viii. De Tropo vii De Wisselea xvi. Ad coquinam
abbatis De Swinford Saricus xiiii. Haskillus vi. Godricus de Eockaford iiii.
The date is an estimation, taken from ÒThe Historical Gazateer of EnglandÕs Place NamesÓ which dates this usage of the name ÒHerewaldindunaÓ to c. 1180 http://placenames.org.uk/index.php/browse/mads/epns-deep-50-c-mappedname-001294 |
Monastery Records | Stevenson, Joseph, ed. Chronicon monasterii de Abingdon. Rolls Series. London: Longman, Green and Company, 1858. 323-325 | 51.735 | -1.332 | 51.67078 | -1.2879529 | ||
Adelwinus Quire de Cumenora | 1180c | 400 | 1 man | Kitchen at the Abbey of Abingdon | In capite ieiunii redduntur
istae anguillae. Alfricus de Witelea xxx sticas. Alfricus de Herewaldinduna
viii. Turkillus de Culeham xx. Arnulfus xii. Leofricus Cuceafoc x. Adelwinus
Quire de Cumenora xvi et abbati viii. De Tropo vii De Wisselea xvi. Ad coquinam
abbatis De Swinford Saricus xiiii. Haskillus vi. Godricus de Eockaford iiii.
The date is an estimation, taken from ÒThe Historical Gazateer of EnglandÕs Place NamesÓ which dates this usage of the name ÒHerewaldindunaÓ to c. 1180 http://placenames.org.uk/index.php/browse/mads/epns-deep-50-c-mappedname-001294 |
Monastery Records | Stevenson, Joseph, ed. Chronicon monasterii de Abingdon. Rolls Series. London: Longman, Green and Company, 1858. 323-325 | 51.735 | -1.332 | 51.67078 | -1.2879529 | ||
Alfric of Harrowdown | 1180c | 200 | 1 man | Kitchen at the Abbey of Abingdon | In capite ieiunii redduntur
istae anguillae. Alfricus de Witelea xxx sticas. Alfricus de Herewaldinduna
viii. Turkillus de Culeham xx. Arnulfus xii. Leofricus Cuceafoc x. Adelwinus
Quire de Cumenora xvi et abbati viii. De Tropo vii De Wisselea xvi. Ad coquinam
abbatis De Swinford Saricus xiiii. Haskillus vi. Godricus de Eockaford iiii.
The date is an estimation, taken from ÒThe Historical Gazateer of EnglandÕs Place NamesÓ which dates this usage of the name ÒHerewaldindunaÓ to c. 1180 http://placenames.org.uk/index.php/browse/mads/epns-deep-50-c-mappedname-001294 |
Monastery Records | Stevenson, Joseph, ed. Chronicon monasterii de Abingdon. Rolls Series. London: Longman, Green and Company, 1858. 323-325 | 51.691339 | -1.437603 | 51.67078 | -1.2879529 | ||
Alfric of Witelea | 1180c | 750 | 1 man | Kitchen at the Abbey of Abingdon | In capite ieiunii redduntur
istae anguillae. Alfricus de Witelea xxx sticas. Alfricus de Herewaldinduna
viii. Turkillus de Culeham xx. Arnulfus xii. Leofricus Cuceafoc x. Adelwinus
Quire de Cumenora xvi et abbati viii. De Tropo vii De Wisselea xvi. Ad coquinam
abbatis De Swinford Saricus xiiii. Haskillus vi. Godricus de Eockaford iiii.
The date is an estimation, taken from ÒThe Historical Gazateer of EnglandÕs Place NamesÓ which dates this usage of the name ÒHerewaldindunaÓ to c. 1180 http://placenames.org.uk/index.php/browse/mads/epns-deep-50-c-mappedname-001294 |
Monastery Records | Stevenson, Joseph, ed. Chronicon monasterii de Abingdon. Rolls Series. London: Longman, Green and Company, 1858. 323-325 | 51.67078 | -1.2879529 | 51.67078 | -1.2879529 | Witelea here is probably not the Whitely Farm in Warwickshire. GPS coordinates are for Abingdon. | |
Arnulf | 1180c | 300 | 1 man | Kitchen at the Abbey of Abingdon | In capite ieiunii redduntur
istae anguillae. Alfricus de Witelea xxx sticas. Alfricus de Herewaldinduna
viii. Turkillus de Culeham xx. Arnulfus xii. Leofricus Cuceafoc x. Adelwinus
Quire de Cumenora xvi et abbati viii. De Tropo vii De Wisselea xvi. Ad coquinam
abbatis De Swinford Saricus xiiii. Haskillus vi. Godricus de Eockaford iiii.
The date is an estimation, taken from ÒThe Historical Gazateer of EnglandÕs Place NamesÓ which dates this usage of the name ÒHerewaldindunaÓ to c. 1180 http://placenames.org.uk/index.php/browse/mads/epns-deep-50-c-mappedname-001294 |
Monastery Records | Stevenson, Joseph, ed. Chronicon monasterii de Abingdon. Rolls Series. London: Longman, Green and Company, 1858. 323-325 | 51.67078 | -1.2879529 | 51.67078 | -1.2879529 | ||
Bachel, Norfolk | 1180c | 500 | 1 man (Estmund) | Priory of the Virigin Mary and St. Andrews | the tithes of Gilbert Fitz-Bernard of Waurelona, and 3000 eels paid by Henry de Rye, in Tinswera;Ñthe mill at Deopham, and one man and his land;Ñ500 eels paid by Hucha from Scaleslade or Salterslode;Ñ500 eels paid by Estmund, from Bachel;Ñ500 eels paid by Gotland, from the Lode | Charter | Francis Blomefield, 'Priors: Of the priory of the virgin Mary and St. Andrew', in An Essay Towards A Topographical History of the County of Norfolk: Volume 2 (London, 1805), pp. 107-127. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/topographical-hist-norfolk/vol2/pp107-127 [accessed 28 July 2017]. | 52.673 | 0.9532 | 52.686643 | 1.280674 | Bachel doesn't seem to exist anymore. | |
Godric of Eockaford | 1180c | 100 | 1 man | Kitchen at the Abbot of Abingdon | In capite ieiunii redduntur
istae anguillae. Alfricus de Witelea xxx sticas. Alfricus de Herewaldinduna
viii. Turkillus de Culeham xx. Arnulfus xii. Leofricus Cuceafoc x. Adelwinus
Quire de Cumenora xvi et abbati viii. De Tropo vii De Wisselea xvi. Ad coquinam
abbatis De Swinford Saricus xiiii. Haskillus vi. Godricus de Eockaford iiii.
The date is an estimation, taken from ÒThe Historical Gazateer of EnglandÕs Place NamesÓ which dates this usage of the name ÒHerewaldindunaÓ to c. 1180 http://placenames.org.uk/index.php/browse/mads/epns-deep-50-c-mappedname-001294 |
Monastery Records | Stevenson, Joseph, ed. Chronicon monasterii de Abingdon. Rolls Series. London: Longman, Green and Company, 1858. 323-325 | 51.67078 | -1.2879529 | 51.67078 | -1.2879529 | GPS coordinates are for Abingdon. | |
Haskillus (of Swinford) | 1180c | 150 | 1 man | Kitchen of the Abbot of Abingdon | In capite ieiunii redduntur
istae anguillae. Alfricus de Witelea xxx sticas. Alfricus de Herewaldinduna
viii. Turkillus de Culeham xx. Arnulfus xii. Leofricus Cuceafoc x. Adelwinus
Quire de Cumenora xvi et abbati viii. De Tropo vii De Wisselea xvi. Ad coquinam
abbatis De Swinford Saricus xiiii. Haskillus vi. Godricus de Eockaford iiii.
The date is an estimation, taken from ÒThe Historical Gazateer of EnglandÕs Place NamesÓ which dates this usage of the name ÒHerewaldindunaÓ to c. 1180 http://placenames.org.uk/index.php/browse/mads/epns-deep-50-c-mappedname-001294 |
Monastery Records | Stevenson, Joseph, ed. Chronicon monasterii de Abingdon. Rolls Series. London: Longman, Green and Company, 1858. 323-325 | 51.773333 | -1.356944 | 51.67078 | -1.2879529 | ||
Leofric Cuceafoc | 1180c | 250 | 1 man | Kitchen at the Abbey of Abingdon | In capite ieiunii redduntur
istae anguillae. Alfricus de Witelea xxx sticas. Alfricus de Herewaldinduna
viii. Turkillus de Culeham xx. Arnulfus xii. Leofricus Cuceafoc x. Adelwinus
Quire de Cumenora xvi et abbati viii. De Tropo vii De Wisselea xvi. Ad coquinam
abbatis De Swinford Saricus xiiii. Haskillus vi. Godricus de Eockaford iiii.
The date is an estimation, taken from ÒThe Historical Gazateer of EnglandÕs Place NamesÓ which dates this usage of the name ÒHerewaldindunaÓ to c. 1180 http://placenames.org.uk/index.php/browse/mads/epns-deep-50-c-mappedname-001294 |
Monastery Records | Stevenson, Joseph, ed. Chronicon monasterii de Abingdon. Rolls Series. London: Longman, Green and Company, 1858. 323-325 | 51.67078 | -1.2879529 | 51.67078 | -1.2879529 | ||
Panewrdaor Panworth | 1180c | 100 | 1 man | Priory of the Virigin Mary and St. Andrews | 4 sticks | Charter | 52.602691 | 0.78125 | 52.686643 | 1.280674 | |||
Salterslode | 1180c | 500 | 1 man (Hucha) | Priory of the Virigin Mary and St. Andrews | the tithes of Gilbert Fitz-Bernard of Waurelona, and 3000 eels paid by Henry de Rye, in Tinswera;Ñthe mill at Deopham, and one man and his land;Ñ500 eels paid by Hucha from Scaleslade or Salterslode;Ñ500 eels paid by Estmund, from Bachel;Ñ500 eels paid by Gotland, from the Lode | Charter | Francis Blomefield, 'Priors: Of the priory of the virgin Mary and St. Andrew', in An Essay Towards A Topographical History of the County of Norfolk: Volume 2 (London, 1805), pp. 107-127. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/topographical-hist-norfolk/vol2/pp107-127 [accessed 28 July 2017]. | 52.589633 | 0.337676 | 52.686643 | 1.280674 | ||
Saricus of Swinford | 1180c | 325 | 1 man | Kitchen of the Abbot of Abingdon | In capite ieiunii redduntur
istae anguillae. Alfricus de Witelea xxx sticas. Alfricus de Herewaldinduna
viii. Turkillus de Culeham xx. Arnulfus xii. Leofricus Cuceafoc x. Adelwinus
Quire de Cumenora xvi et abbati viii. De Tropo vii De Wisselea xvi. Ad coquinam
abbatis De Swinford Saricus xiiii. Haskillus vi. Godricus de Eockaford iiii.
The date is an estimation, taken from ÒThe Historical Gazateer of EnglandÕs Place NamesÓ which dates this usage of the name ÒHerewaldindunaÓ to c. 1180 http://placenames.org.uk/index.php/browse/mads/epns-deep-50-c-mappedname-001294 |
Monastery Records | Stevenson, Joseph, ed. Chronicon monasterii de Abingdon. Rolls Series. London: Longman, Green and Company, 1858. 323-325 | 51.773333 | -1.356944 | 51.67078 | -1.2879529 | ||
The Lode | 1180c | 500 | 1 man (Gotland) | Priory of the Virigin Mary and St. Andrews | the tithes of Gilbert Fitz-Bernard of Waurelona, and 3000 eels paid by Henry de Rye, in Tinswera;Ñthe mill at Deopham, and one man and his land;Ñ500 eels paid by Hucha from Scaleslade or Salterslode;Ñ500 eels paid by Estmund, from Bachel;Ñ500 eels paid by Gotland, from the Lode | Charter | Francis Blomefield, 'Priors: Of the priory of the virgin Mary and St. Andrew', in An Essay Towards A Topographical History of the County of Norfolk: Volume 2 (London, 1805), pp. 107-127. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/topographical-hist-norfolk/vol2/pp107-127 [accessed 28 July 2017]. | 52.24 | 0.24 | 52.686643 | 1.280674 | ||
Thrupp | 1180c | 175 | 1 man | Kitchen of the Abbey of Abingdon | In capite ieiunii redduntur
istae anguillae. Alfricus de Witelea xxx sticas. Alfricus de Herewaldinduna
viii. Turkillus de Culeham xx. Arnulfus xii. Leofricus Cuceafoc x. Adelwinus
Quire de Cumenora xvi et abbati viii. De Tropo vii De Wisselea xvi. Ad coquinam
abbatis De Swinford Saricus xiiii. Haskillus vi. Godricus de Eockaford iiii.
The date is an estimation, taken from ÒThe Historical Gazateer of EnglandÕs Place NamesÓ which dates this usage of the name ÒHerewaldindunaÓ to c. 1180 http://placenames.org.uk/index.php/browse/mads/epns-deep-50-c-mappedname-001294 |
Monastery Records | Stevenson, Joseph, ed. Chronicon monasterii de Abingdon. Rolls Series. London: Longman, Green and Company, 1858. 323-325 | 51.670464 | -1.250682 | 51.67078 | -1.2879529 | Not the same Thrupp as in Doomsday; this one is just E. of Abingdon | |
Tinswera | 1180c | 3000 | 1 man (Henry de Rye) | Priory of the Virigin Mary and St. Andrews | King Henry II. when he
was at Thetford, was entertained in this monastery, and at the request
of Hugh Bigot, confirmed all the aforesaid gifts, and these following
ones: viz. É the tithes of Gilbert Fitz-Bernard of Waurelona, and 3000 eels paid by Henry de Rye, in Tinswera; |
Charter | Francis Blomefield, 'Priors: Of the priory of the virgin Mary and St. Andrew', in An Essay Towards A Topographical History of the County of Norfolk: Volume 2 (London, 1805), pp. 107-127. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/topographical-hist-norfolk/vol2/pp107-127 [accessed 28 July 2017]. | 52.673 | 0.9532 | 52.686643 | 1.280674 | Tinswera doesn't seem to exist anymore. | |
Turkillus of Culham | 1180c | 500 | 1 man | Kitchen at the Abbey of Abingdon | In capite ieiunii redduntur
istae anguillae. Alfricus de Witelea xxx sticas. Alfricus de Herewaldinduna
viii. Turkillus de Culeham xx. Arnulfus xii. Leofricus Cuceafoc x. Adelwinus
Quire de Cumenora xvi et abbati viii. De Tropo vii De Wisselea xvi. Ad coquinam
abbatis De Swinford Saricus xiiii. Haskillus vi. Godricus de Eockaford iiii.
The date is an estimation, taken from ÒThe Historical Gazateer of EnglandÕs Place NamesÓ which dates this usage of the name ÒHerewaldindunaÓ to c. 1180 http://placenames.org.uk/index.php/browse/mads/epns-deep-50-c-mappedname-001294 |
Monastery Records | Stevenson, Joseph, ed. Chronicon monasterii de Abingdon. Rolls Series. London: Longman, Green and Company, 1858. 323-325 | 51.652096 | -1.270273 | 51.67078 | -1.2879529 | ||
Whistley | 1180c | 400 | uncertain | Abbey of Abingdon | In capite ieiunii redduntur
istae anguillae. Alfricus de Witelea xxx sticas. Alfricus de Herewaldinduna
viii. Turkillus de Culeham xx. Arnulfus xii. Leofricus Cuceafoc x. Adelwinus
Quire de Cumenora xvi et abbati viii. De Tropo vii De Wisselea xvi. Ad coquinam
abbatis De Swinford Saricus xiiii. Haskillus vi. Godricus de Eockaford iiii.
The date is an estimation, taken from ÒThe Historical Gazateer of EnglandÕs Place NamesÓ which dates this usage of the name ÒHerewaldindunaÓ to c. 1180 http://placenames.org.uk/index.php/browse/mads/epns-deep-50-c-mappedname-001294 |
Monastery Records | Stevenson, Joseph, ed. Chronicon monasterii de Abingdon. Rolls Series. London: Longman, Green and Company, 1858. 323-325 | 51.462186 | -0.860399 | 51.67078 | -1.2879529 | ||
Morcock Eswere | 1181 | 5000 | 1 fishery | Geoffrey de Wandestre | Charter of King Henry II, to Geoffrey de Wandestre. Henry D. G., &c., to all &c., greeting. Know ye that I have conceded and given and by this charter confirmed to Geoffrey de Wandestre seven librates of land in my manor of North-Cory, in exchange for his land at Witham and Wandstre, which I have given to the brothers of the Charterhouse, to be held of Henry de Newmarch, and his heirs by that service by which he held his said land at Whiteham and Wandestre; viz. ÉAnd in the fishery of Morcock Eswere yearly 5,000 eels; and in the fishery of Stathewere 1,000 eels; and he shall have these 6,000 eels for 20s. | Charter | Harbin, Edward, ed. Two Cartularies of the Benedictine Abbeys of Muchelney and Athelney in the County of Somerset. Translated by Edward Harbin. London: Harrison and Sons, 1899. (164-165) | 51.0248 | -2.9638 | 51.0248 | -2.9638 | in Somerset. The cordinates are for North Curry | |
Stathewere | 1181 | 1000 | 1 fishery | Geoffrey de Wandestre | Charter of King Henry II, to Geoffrey de Wandestre. Henry D. G., &c., to all &c., greeting. Know ye that I have conceded and given and by this charter confirmed to Geoffrey de Wandestre seven librates of land in my manor of North-Cory, in exchange for his land at Witham and Wandstre, which I have given to the brothers of the Charterhouse, to be held of Henry de Newmarch, and his heirs by that service by which he held his said land at Whiteham and Wandestre; viz. ÉAnd in the fishery of Morcock Eswere yearly 5,000 eels; and in the fishery of Stathewere 1,000 eels; and he shall have these 6,000 eels for 20s. | Charter | Harbin, Edward, ed. Two Cartularies of the Benedictine Abbeys of Muchelney and Athelney in the County of Somerset. Translated by Edward Harbin. London: Harrison and Sons, 1899. (164-165) | 51.0248 | -2.9638 | 51.0248 | -2.9638 | in Somerset. The cordinates are for North Curry | |
Potlocks | 1185 | 50 | 1 fishery | Burton Abbey | S.H.C. 1937, 231; ibid. 1937, pp. lxi-lxii. The tenant owed all the tithe of Potlocks under the terms of a lease from Abbot Geoffrey (wrongly dated ibid. p. lx as before 1113: Geoffrey was abbot 1114-50); the '50 large and good eels of Trent' also due from the tenant may have represented a tithe of the fishery of Potlocks. | Monastery Records | G C Baugh, W L Cowie, J C Dickinson, Duggan A P, A K B Evans, R H Evans, Una C Hannam, P Heath, D A Johnston, Hilda Johnstone, Ann J Kettle, J L Kirby, R Mansfield and A Saltman, 'Houses of Benedictine monks: The abbey of Burton', in A History of the County of Stafford: Volume 3, ed. M W Greenslade and R B Pugh (London, 1970), pp. 199-213. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/staffs/vol3/pp199-213 [accessed 28 August 2017]. | 52.853888 | -1.551367 | 52.8005 | -1.6291 | ||
Wermegay | 1190c | 2000 | mills | Abbot of Bury St. Edmunds | 65 s. | Reginald, by Alice,
had William de Warren, who paid scutage for this barony in the 31
of HenryII. and in the 14 of Richard I. paid 14l. 5s. to the
King's redemption. In the Register of Bury abbey is an agreement between
this William, and Sampson, then abbot, who claimed 65s. rent, and
2000 eels, for the mills between Wermegay and Westbrigg, the
gift of William's ancestors Date is an estimation, based on the life of William de Warren and the tenure of Abbot Sampson. I have guessed early, rather than late, in the time window available. |
Monastery Records | Francis Blomefield, 'Clackclose Hundred and Half: Wermegay', in An Essay Towards A Topographical History of the County of Norfolk: Volume 7 (London, 1807), pp. 493-502. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/topographical-hist-norfolk/vol7/pp493-502 [accessed 17 August 2017]. | 52.685859 | 0.460925 | 52.242923 | 0.7104932 | |
Ramsey Monastery | 1194 | 1000 | n/a | Hemingford Grey | pair of scarlet hose, 2 lb. of pepper, 2 lb. of ginger, and allowed common rights in the abbey wood. | Part of the causeway over the low-lying land leading to St. Ives Bridge was in the manor of Hemingford Grey, and reference to it is found at an early date. We find that the abbots of Ramsey paid yearly for its use a pair of scarlet hose, 2 lb. of pepper, 2 lb. of ginger, 1,000 eels and allowed common rights in the abbey wood. In 1238 Alice, widow of Ralph Turberville, agreed to alter this rent to 40 cartloads of underwood from the wood of St. Ives, 1,000 eels and half a mark and a further payment for her life of 20 cartloads of wood. | County Records | 'Parishes: Hemingford Grey', in A History of the County of Huntingdon: Volume 2, ed. William Page, Granville Proby and S Inskip Ladds (London, 1932), pp. 309-314. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/hunts/vol2/pp309-314 [accessed 10 August 2017]. | 52.448333 | -0.100833 | 52.319157 | -0.109413 | |
Burghfield | 1200c | 50 | 1 mill | Reading Abbey | 13 s. | Thomas Burghfield, who was living in the reign of Henry II, granted it to Nicholas son of Sexus for a yearly rent of 13s. and two sticks of eels. William the miller of Burghfield and son of Nicholas granted the moiety of the mill to the abbey of Reading, the same rent being payable to the overlord, and the grant was confirmed by Robert Burghfield. | County Records | 'Parishes: Burghfield', in A History of the County of Berkshire: Volume 3, ed. P H Ditchfield and William Page (London, 1923), pp. 399-404. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/berks/vol3/pp399-404 [accessed 17 August 2017]. | 51.411686 | -1.04526 | 51.456347 | -0.965086 | |
Polwere | 1200c | 1000 | 2 fisheries | Chatteris Abbey | 2 s. | Concessio abbatisse de quadram
piscaria tocata Polwere. Not sit tam presentibus quad futuris quod ego Albreda Dei gracias abbatissa de Chatriz et touts convents eiusdem loci mediums et concessimus Willelmo filio Hugonis prepositi de Dudyngtone piscaturam quamdam, scilicet Polwere, et total aquas que est inter Polwere et Echinwere et cum omnibus prefatis piscaturis pertinentibus, illi et heredibus suis tenders de nobis libere quiete et hereditaria pro omni sercivio, reddened annuatim quadriginta stikkas anguillaru, in prim de lune quadagesime et duos solids sterlingorum reddens at iii terminus, silicate ad Pascha vj denarios, ad Assumptionem beate Marie cj denarius, ad Natale vj denarius et ad PentecosetenÕ vj denarius, vel ad unumquemque istorumy terminorum unum present s[e]x denariorum. |
Monastery Records | Breay, Claire, ed. The Cartulary of Chatteris Abbey. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 1999. (289-280) | 52.495 | 0.061 | 52.4561 | 0.054 | Polwere's location is in doubt. The editors of the English Episcopal Acta 31, Ely 1109-1197 suggest Doddington, by virtue of its proximity in the text of the abbey's records. |
Welles | 1200c | 250 | 2 fisheries | Chatteris Abbey | Carta Roberti de Insual de
piscaria ut supra, É Éet pretenda totem feodum cum omnibus pertinenciis suis quod Baldewynus filius Augustini tenuti de me in villa de Welles per redditi decime stikkorum anguillarumÉ |
Monastery Records | Breay, Claire, ed. The Cartulary of Chatteris Abbey. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 1999. (205) | 52.6123 | 0.2367 | 52.4561 | 0.054 | ||
Winwick | 1203 | 25 | n/a | see notes | The jurors say that Geoffrey Cardun has levied new customs other than he ought and other than have been usual, to wit, in taking from every cart crossing his land at Winwick with eels, one stick of eels, | Record of a Court Case | Maitland, F.W., ed. Select Pleas of the Crown: Volume 1--A.D. 1200-1225. London: Bernard Quaritch, 1888. Fordham University Medieval Sourcebooks, http://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/seth/pleas-northamptoneyre.asp [accessed 17 August 2017]. | 52.41 | -0.38 | -0.38 | 52.41 | ||
Cropthorne | 1204 | 750 | 1 mill | Prior of Worchester | 25s. | In 1086 there was a mill at Cropthorne which paid 10s. and 20 'stiches' of eels yearlyÉ.In 1240 the Prior of Worcester owned a mill there, which paid 35s. and 30 'stiches' of eels yearly, and he had two other mills. | Doomsday | 'Parishes: Cropthorne', in A History of the County of Worcester: Volume 3 (London, 1913), pp. 322-329. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/worcs/vol3/pp322-329 [accessed 28 July 2017]. | 52.101679 | -2.003323 | 52.188889 | -2.220833 | |
Formby | 1205 | 1 | 1 mill | Henry de Lea | Between 1205 and 1211 Henry de Lea granted licence to William Blundell of Ince to erect a mill on the Raven Meols side of the Alt, with the right to take eels at the sluice; the mill was given to the monks of Whalley, who in 1329 agreed with Sir Richard de Hoghton and his wife Sibyl to pay a rent of a gilt spur, or 4d., and reserve the eel fishery to the lord of Raven Meols. | City / Town Records | 'Townships: Formby', in A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 3, ed. William Farrer and J Brownbill (London, 1907), pp. 45-52. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/lancs/vol3/pp45-52 [accessed 28 August 2017]. | 53.558271 | -3.068743 | 53.558271 | -3.068743 | ||
Downton | 1208 | 675 | uncertain | The Bishop of Winchester | The same render account of 273 chickens, 27 sticae of eels, 4 suckling pigs, freed for the expenses of the lord king and bishop. | Pipe Roll | From: Hubert Hall, ed., The Pipe Roll of the Bishopric of Winchester, 1208-09, (London: P. S. King & Son, 1903), pp. 20-23, reprinted in Roy C. Cave & Herbert H. Coulson, A Source Book for Medieval Economic History, (New York: The Bruce Publishing Co., 1936; reprint ed., New York: Biblo & Tannen, 1965), pp. 62-68. | 50.993 | -1.743 | 51.05977 | -1.310142 | ||
Wincester | 1210 | 2575 | 5 | The Bishop of Wincester | Pipe Roll | Holt, Neville Richard. The Pipe Roll of the Bishopric of Winchester, 1210-1211. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1964. (30, 37, 38, 165, 179) | 51.0606 | -1.3131 | 51.0606 | -1.3131 | coordinates are for Wincester Cathedral | ||
Welles | 1220 | 60000 | 20 fishermen | Ramsey Monastery | Two extents of the manor, made about the time that the market was first granted, are preserved. The earlier, made by order of Abbot Eudo (1200Ð2), records a small demesne, consisting of land, formerly held by Seman, whereon the new hall of the abbot had been built. The annual tribute of eels had risen slightly above the 60,000 ordained by Aylwin, and many tenants of land and messuages, as well as of fisheries, paid their rent in this form. A few years later (1206Ð7) a new scale of rents was drawn up, sticks of eels were reckoned by the old and the new countÉ | Monastery Records | T D Atkinson, Ethel M Hampson, E T Long, C A F Meekings, Edward Miller, H B Wells and G M G Woodgate, 'Wisbech Hundred: Outwell and Upwell', in A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely: Volume 4, City of Ely; Ely, N. and S. Witchford and Wisbech Hundreds, ed. R B Pugh (London, 2002), pp. 206-219. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/cambs/vol4/pp206-219 [accessed 28 July 2017]. ; Kirk, R.E.G., Ponsony Annesley Lyons, and W.H. Hart, eds. Cartularium Monasterii de Rameseia. Vol. 2. 3 vols. Wiesbaden: Kraus Reprint, 1965. (72, with detail at 318-319, 376) | 52.612299 | 0.236705 | 52.448333 | -0.100833 | ||
Littleport Manor | 1221 | 26500 | 12 fisheries | Bishop of Ely | The survey of Bishop de Fontibus (1221) shows a demesne of 277_ acres arable and 29_ meadow, 29 customary tenants with holdings ranging from 18 to 5 acres, 15 cottars without land, and 12 fisheries rendering 26,500 eels. | Doomsday | T D Atkinson, Ethel M Hampson, E T Long, C A F Meekings, Edward Miller, H B Wells and G M G Woodgate, 'Ely Hundred: Littleport', in A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely: Volume 4, City of Ely; Ely, N. and S. Witchford and Wisbech Hundreds, ed. R B Pugh (London, 2002), pp. 95-102. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/cambs/vol4/pp95-102 [accessed 28 July 2017]. | 52.458 | 0.305 | 52.398802 | 0.263779 | ||
Downham | 1222 | 875 | 1 fishery | Abbot of Ely | 7 s. | The fisheries were increasing in size and value. In 1222 there had been one, rendering 7s. yearly and 35 sticks of eels; in 1251 there were two, Downhamhythe and Manea, rendering 12s. | Charter | T D Atkinson, Ethel M Hampson, E T Long, C A F Meekings, Edward Miller, H B Wells and G M G Woodgate, 'Ely Hundred: Downham', in A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely: Volume 4, City of Ely; Ely, N. and S. Witchford and Wisbech Hundreds, ed. R B Pugh (London, 2002), pp. 90-95. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/cambs/vol4/pp90-95 [accessed 10 August 2017]. | 52.433 | 0.233 | 52.398802 | 0.263779 | This is almost certainly not the Downham in Lancastershire, but is rather the village of Little Downham in Cambridgeshire |
Burghfield | 1225c | 50 | 1 mill | Reading Abbey | 13 s. | Thomas Burghfield, who was living in the reign of Henry II, granted it to Nicholas son of Sexus for a yearly rent of 13s. and two sticks of eels. William the miller of Burghfield and son of Nicholas granted the moiety of the mill to the abbey of Reading, the same rent being payable to the overlord, and the grant was confirmed by Robert Burghfield. | County Records | 'Parishes: Burghfield', in A History of the County of Berkshire: Volume 3, ed. P H Ditchfield and William Page (London, 1923), pp. 399-404. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/berks/vol3/pp399-404 [accessed 17 August 2017]. | 51.411686 | -1.04526 | 51.456347 | -0.965086 | |
Welles | 1227 | 4000 | 1 fishery | Peterborough Monastery | Grant to St Mary St Peter and the monastery of Peterborough and abbot and convent thereof of the following lands which they hold:É É in Welles four thousands of eels from a fishery; | Charter | Office, Great Britain Public Record, Sir H. C. Maxwell Lyte, and Alfred Edward Stamp. Calendar of the Charter Rolls Preserved in the Public Record Office: Henry III. 1226-1257. H.M. Stationery Office, 1908. (19) | 52.612299 | 0.236705 | 52.5725 | -0.238889 | ||
Wolvey | 1230 | 1 | 1 mill | Ivo de Dene | Ivo de Dene was a great benefactor to Combe; in 1230 he granted 56 acres and a mill in return for a life tenancy of 1 virgate formerly held by Robert son of John and Robert of the Cross, and subject to the right of him and his heirs to take half the eels and fish caught in the stake-nets (hayas) allowed to be put across the mill-pond by the monks. | 'Parishes: Wolvey', in A History of the County of Warwick: Volume 6, Knightlow Hundred, ed. L F Salzman (London, 1951), pp. 281-287. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/warks/vol6/pp281-287 [accessed 23 August 2017]. | 52.486614 | -1.369299 | 52.486614 | -1.369299 | |||
Cleeve Prior | 1233 | 1000 | 1 mill | Worcester Priory | 3 marks | During the early part of the 13th century the rent was paid partly in money, and the amount, probably up to 1233, was 3 marks and 40 'stiches' of eels yearly; this was finally altered in the lease of 1237 to a payment of 1 mark quarterly. | Monastery Records | 'Parishes: Cleeve Prior', in A History of the County of Worcester: Volume 3 (London, 1913), pp. 308-312. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/worcs/vol3/pp308-312 [accessed 11 August 2017]. | 52.140303 | -1.872127 | 52.193636 | -2.221575 | |
Woodstock | 1235 | 1 | Godstow Nunnery | THE sentence of this charter is that kyng1 henry by the grace of god kyng of Englond & cetera willed to be know to Archebisshoppis & cetera that he yafi & cetera to god & cetera and to the holy mynchons of Godestowe ÉAlso and the tythes of Elys of his stewys of Wodestoq also ofte He graunted as the valson of elys happened of the same his stewy NB: valson here means the descent of the eels to the sea, so charter is likely for full-sized eels. | Charter | Godstow Nunnery, The English Register of Godstow Nunnery, Near Oxford: Written about 1450 (Early English Text Society, 1906), 671-672. | 51.847267 | -1.3541 | 51.78 | -1.299 | |||
Well | 1237 | 375 | West-Derham Abbey | Jeffrey Platt gave 100 acres of marsh.ÑWilliam Curteis of Well, in 1237, bequeaths his body to be buried here, and 15 sticks of eels yearly to the convent. | Francis Blomefield, 'Clackclose Hundred and Half: West-Derham', in An Essay Towards A Topographical History of the County of Norfolk: Volume 7 (London, 1807), pp. 321-338. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/topographical-hist-norfolk/vol7/pp321-338 [accessed 11 August 2017]. | 52.95006 | 0.828781 | 52.5781 | 0.4503 | This is a guess. The closest Well is Well-by-the-Sea | |||
Ramsey Monastery | 1238 | 1000 | Hemingford Grey | 40 cartloads of underwood from the wood of St. Ives, and half a mark and a further payment for her life of 20 cartloads of wood. | Part of the causeway over the low-lying land leading to St. Ives Bridge was in the manor of Hemingford Grey, and reference to it is found at an early date. We find that the abbots of Ramsey paid yearly for its use a pair of scarlet hose, 2 lb. of pepper, 2 lb. of ginger, 1,000 eels and allowed common rights in the abbey wood. In 1238 Alice, widow of Ralph Turberville, agreed to alter this rent to 40 cartloads of underwood from the wood of St. Ives, 1,000 eels and half a mark and a further payment for her life of 20 cartloads of wood. | Monastery Records | 'Parishes: Hemingford Grey', in A History of the County of Huntingdon: Volume 2, ed. William Page, Granville Proby and S Inskip Ladds (London, 1932), pp. 309-314. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/hunts/vol2/pp309-314 [accessed 10 August 2017]. | 52.448333 | -0.100833 | 52.319157 | -0.109413 | ||
Bramwich and Brainthund[des] | 1240c | 50 | 1 | Matilda Bigot, Countess of Warenne | Grant by [Ada]m de Reinevill to Matilda Bigote, Countess of Warenne, of the homage and service of Agnes, daughter of Jordan de la Felde (i.e., 5 solidates of rent per annum), Richard son of Elyas, Humfrey, son of Robert Palmer, William, son of Robert Palmer (i.e., 2 solidates of rent and two sticks of eels per annum), William de Marisco and Constance de Reinevill, for tenements they held of him in Bramwich and Brainthund[des], the services (which are all expressed in solidates and denariates) being due at Whitsunday and the feast of St. Martin, and the eels at Mid-Lent | 'Deeds: A.301 - A.400', in A Descriptive Catalogue of Ancient Deeds: Volume 1, ed. H C Maxwell Lyte (London, 1890), pp. 33-47. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/ancient-deeds/vol1/pp33-47 [accessed 17 August 2017]. | 53.52282 | -1.128462 | 53.5228 | -1.1285 | This is a guess, on the Don in the middle of Yorkshire | ||
Formby | 1241 | 1 | 1 mill | Cockersand Abbey | Between 1205 and 1211 Henry de
Lea granted licence to William Blundell of Ince to erect a mill on the Raven
Meols side of the Alt, with the right to take eels at the sluice; the mill
was given to the monks of Whalley, who in 1329 agreed with Sir Richard de
Hoghton and his wife Sibyl to pay a rent of a gilt spur, or 4d., and reserve
the eel fishery to the lord of Raven Meols. Whalley Coucher (Chet. Soc),
ii, 497, 495, 515. William Blundell had already given a tithe of the multure
of this mill to Cockersand Abbey; Chartul. ii, 568. SCIANT etc. quod ego Willelmus Blundel dedi etc. totam 3 decimacionem moturae molendini mei super Alth in puram et perpetuam etc libere et quiete ab omni seculari servicio et exactione pro salute animae meae etc Cum warantia et testibus (1241) |
Monastery Records | 'Townships: Formby', in A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 3, ed. William Farrer and J Brownbill (London, 1907), pp. 45-52. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/lancs/vol3/pp45-52 [accessed 28 August 2017]. | 53.558271 | -3.068743 | 53.977 | -2.875 | ||
Chesterton | 1250c | 1000 | uncertain | The vicarage at Chesterton (Cambridge) | In 1219 the vicarage was endowed with the altarage, 2 a. of arable, and rent. (fn. 18) That endowment proved insufficient, and, probably in the mid 13th century, a composition assigned to the vicar 18 a. of arable to be held of the rectory manor; the offerings, save for harvest sheaves, and mortuaries; all the small tithes, even from the rectory when it was at farm, besides those of hay; 1,000 eels from the fishery in the Cam; and the corn tithe of any closes temporarily in arable cultivation. | County Records | 'Chesterton: Churches', in A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely: Volume 9, Chesterton, Northstowe, and Papworth Hundreds, ed. A P M Wright and C P Lewis (London, 1989), pp. 28-35. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/cambs/vol9/pp28-35 [accessed 28 August 2017]. | 52.218506 | 0.141444 | 52.218506 | 0.141444 | ||
Lenchwick | 1250c | 1000 | 1 mill | The cook of the Abbey of Evesham | Sale by Roger do Lenchwike, son of David de Lenchwike, to Roger de Persore, for 20 marks, of the mills of Lenchwike and of lands belonging to them, lying in Werfurlong, Mulfurlong abutting on 'le Muleweye', opposite the mill and in Collesdene, rendering yearly to the cook of Evesham 25s. and forty sticks (sticas) of eels, or if so many were not taken, 1_d. for each stick | Deed | 'Deeds: B.1901 - B.2000', in A Descriptive Catalogue of Ancient Deeds: Volume 2, ed. H C Maxwell Lyte (London, 1894), pp. 242-253. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/ancient-deeds/vol2/pp242-253 [accessed 20 August 2017]. | 52.124345 | -1.952152 | 52.09215 | -1.94677 | ||
Ely | 1251 | 14500 | uncertain | Bishop of Ely | 56 s. 4 d. | The Survey of 1251 begins with the manorial demesne land: much arable land and pasture had been won from the waste since 1086. É The seignorial stock at this date consisted of 500 sheep, 20 cows and 2 bulls, 100 pigs and 2 boars. The lord enjoyed fold of sheep of villein and even cottar tenants. There were 2 windmills, let at farm: all rentpaying, customary tenants and cottars owed suit of mill. For fishing rights in 4 of the extensive stretches of mere and weir eel-renders had been commuted, and partially so in the fifth. The total fishing rental amounted to 56s. 4d. in money and 14,500 eels per annum. | T D Atkinson, Ethel M Hampson, E T Long, C A F Meekings, Edward Miller, H B Wells and G M G Woodgate, 'City of Ely: The middle ages', in A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely: Volume 4, City of Ely; Ely, N. and S. Witchford and Wisbech Hundreds, ed. R B Pugh (London, 2002), pp. 33-40. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/cambs/vol4/pp33-40 [accessed 30 August 2017]. | 52.398802 | 0.263779 | 52.398802 | 0.263779 | ||
Ely (Bishop of Ely) | 1251 | 345 | Oky, son of John, and the holders of 68 other messuages in Tydd St. Giles, 5 eels per day of work | There were in 1251 94 separate
customary tenants, holding 69 messuagesÉOf the customary tenants, Oky son of
John held a messuage and found a hen at Christmas and 10 eggs at Easter. He
would plough with 5 oxen 2 days in winter and 2 days in Lent. He would go for
seed to the lord's granary in Tydd St. Giles, would sow and harrow what he
had ploughed, and would hoe for one day, receiving the lord's foodÉFor every
day that he mowed he should have 2 loaves, 4 herrings or 5 eels, or _d. worth
of cheese. The other messuages were held on similar terms. This comes to 345 eels per day, for however many days the ploughing took. |
County Records | T D Atkinson, Ethel M Hampson, E T Long, C A F Meekings, Edward Miller, H B Wells and G M G Woodgate, 'Wisbech Hundred: Tydd St. Giles', in A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely: Volume 4, City of Ely; Ely, N. and S. Witchford and Wisbech Hundreds, ed. R B Pugh (London, 2002), pp. 224-232. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/cambs/vol4/pp224-232 [accessed 20 August 2017]. | 52.398802 | 0.263779 | 52.718823 | 0.067419 | |||
Littleport Manor | 1251 | 38000 | multiple, divided | Bishop of Ely | the rents due in 1251 amounted
to £3 4s. 7d., besides 40s. from the roseria or rush ground of Rack
Fen. The fisheries were now called upon to produce 36,000 eels, besides
2,000 'bedrepeeles' from 'Mudyke' and 'Burewere'. _________ bedrepeeles: eels paid in lieu of bedripe (a dayÕs owed reaping service). See: https://books.google.com/books?id=JAD6Zj4G6qIC&pg=PA688&lpg=PA688&dq=bedrepeeles&source=bl&ots=-_DI6cIM1-&sig=THM_l4iypfg-U6GG4CjvMuyrezM&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjI0KD3qcjVAhVq54MKHXOfATgQ6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=bedrepeeles&f=false |
Doomsday | T D Atkinson, Ethel M Hampson, E T Long, C A F Meekings, Edward Miller, H B Wells and G M G Woodgate, 'Ely Hundred: Littleport', in A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely: Volume 4, City of Ely; Ely, N. and S. Witchford and Wisbech Hundreds, ed. R B Pugh (London, 2002), pp. 95-102. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/cambs/vol4/pp95-102 [accessed 28 July 2017]. | 52.458 | 0.305 | 52.398802 | 0.263779 | ||
Willingham | 1251 | 5000 | 6 fisheries | Bishop of Ely | 48 s. | Queenholm marsh, which formerly belonged to Haddenham, was now reckoned part of Willingham on the Cambridgeshire side. The demesne was stocked with 30 cows and 2 bulls, 60 pigs and 2 boars, and 240 sheep. There was a windmill, let at 100s., and 6 fisheries producing 48s. and 5,000 sticks of eels. | County Records | T D Atkinson, Ethel M Hampson, E T Long, C A F Meekings, Edward Miller, H B Wells and G M G Woodgate, 'South Witchford Hundred: Haddenham', in A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely: Volume 4, City of Ely; Ely, N. and S. Witchford and Wisbech Hundreds, ed. R B Pugh (London, 2002), pp. 140-149. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/cambs/vol4/pp140-149 [accessed 17 August 2017]. | 52.32 | 0.07 | 52.398802 | 0.263779 | |
Canterbury | 1256 | King Henry III at Woodstock | swans, peacocks and cranes | Vicecomiti Cauntebr' et Huntendon' 1. cign', xx. pavon', viij. grues (sic); et quod provideat regi de anguillis in balliva sua secundum quod Rogerus de Lardario, serviens regis, providerit et ei iniunxerit ex parte regis, et anguillas ilia (sic) venire faciat usque Wodest', ita etc., ut supra, liberandas custodibus lardarii regis. Et custum etc. rex faciet ei allocari. Teste. | Close Roll | Office, Great Britain Public Record, Sir H. C. Maxwell Lyte, and Alfred Edward Stamp. Calendar of the Charter Rolls Preserved in the Public Record Office: Henry III. 1226-1257. H.M. Stationery Office, 1908. (432-433) | 51.2802 | 1.0789 | 51.8473 | -1.3541 | |||
Feckam (Fetcham) | 1256 | 1 | 1 | King Henry III at Woodstock | De bremiis et anguillis mittendis ad regem. Ñ Mandatum est Sampsoni de Bremmesgrave, ballivo regis de Fekham, quod bremas et anguillas, quas Walters le Avener capi faciet apud Fekham ad opus regis et ei per preceptum regis liberabit, poni faciat in pane per visum et testimonium eiusdem Walteri et eas ad regem usque Wodestok cariara faciat, liberadas custodi salsarie regis. Custum etc. rex faciet ei allocari. Teste. | Close Roll | Office, Great Britain Public Record, Sir H. C. Maxwell Lyte, and Alfred Edward Stamp. Calendar of the Charter Rolls Preserved in the Public Record Office: Henry III. 1226-1257. H.M. Stationery Office, 1908. (346) | 51.289 | -0.34 | 51.8473 | -1.3541 | ||
Wilton | 1257 | 400 | 2 fisheries | Blackburgh Priory | Emma de Bellofago, or Beaufoe, gave 400 eels yearly out of her fishery at Wilton, for the soul of Isabella Freville, and her own soul, at the beginning of Lent, 9 sticks in the pool called Lodwere, and 7 sticks in her part of Anwere | Monastery Records | Francis Blomefield, 'Freebridge Hundred: Middleton', in An Essay Towards A Topographical History of the County of Norfolk: Volume 9 (London, 1808), pp. 20-34. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/topographical-hist-norfolk/vol9/pp20-34 [accessed 28 August 2017]. | 52.465 | 0.542 | 52.698471 | 0.475943 | This is a guess based on similarity of name and proximity to destination. Coordinates are for Hockwold cum Wilton | |
Swanton-Morley | 1266c. | 1 | 1 mill | Priory of Norwich | It appears from ancient deeds that there was a park in this village, called Bywick park, and that Avelina le Marescal, in her widowhood about the 40th of Henry III. granted the tithes of her mill of Suanetune, and of the eels taken at the mill and pools, to the priory of Norwich, at the request of Will. Ithane de Kyrkeley, then precentor. | Monastery Records | Francis Blomefield, 'Launditch Hundred: Swanton-Morley', in An Essay Towards A Topographical History of the County of Norfolk: Volume 10 (London, 1809), pp. 53-59. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/topographical-hist-norfolk/vol10/pp53-59 [accessed 10 August 2017]. | 52.714271 | 0.986665 | 52.629208 | 1.299477 | ||
Earley Regis (Whiteknights Park) | 1276 | 1 | 1 fishery | The Bishop of Hereford | In 1276 the Bishop of Hereford,
on the ground that he was frequently obliged to come to the court on business
and had no convenient lodging at which to stay on his journeys to and from
his distant diocese, asked for a grant of the manor during the minority of
the heir and this he duly received. Cal. Close, 1272Ð9, p. 268; 1302Ð7, p. 7; Cal. Pat. 1272Ð81, p. 367. The extent of the manor taken at this date mentions a park of 40 acres, a wood of 12 acres called Gerstunns, a rent of eels from the fishery in the Loddon and a custom (inter alia) called Hedrop (Chan. Inq. Misc. file 34, no. 13). |
'Parishes: Sonning with Earley, Woodley and Sandford', in A History of the County of Berkshire: Volume 3, ed. P H Ditchfield and William Page (London, 1923), pp. 210-225. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/berks/vol3/pp210-225 [accessed 28 August 2017]. | 51.440686 | -0.944806 | 51.440686 | -0.944806 | |||
Romsey | 1280c | 300 | uncertain | The Abbess of Romsey Abbey | 57 s. 4 3/4 d., and 200 herring | The early history of the manor of SOUTH WELLS (Welles, xiv cent.) is obscure, but it is probably represented by the lands and tenements in Wells next Romsey which were held in the reign of Edward I by Nicholas de Barbeflete of Southampton in socage of the Abbess of Romsey for a rent of 57s. 4_d., 200 herrings, 300 eels, ploughing of 14 acres of land and mowing of 2 acres of meadow. | 'Parishes: Romsey Extra and Infra', in A History of the County of Hampshire: Volume 4, ed. William Page (London, 1911), pp. 452-469. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/hants/vol4/pp452-469 [accessed 28 August 2017]. | 50.98893 | -1.49658 | 50.989722 | -1.501389 | ||
Lowick | 1285 | 1 | 1 fisherman | Thorney Abbey | ÉRobert de Nowers, (fn. 14) who may be the Sir Robert son of Sir Ralph de Nowers who in 1285 granted lands here to Thorney Abbey, reserving to himself 6 'stikkes' of eels yearly. | 'Parishes: Lowick', in A History of the County of Northampton: Volume 3, ed. William Page (London, 1930), pp. 231-243. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/northants/vol3/pp231-243 [accessed 28 August 2017]. | 55.651169 | -1.976763 | 52.6204 | -0.1072 | |||
Bersewyk (Baswick) | 1287 | 2400 | 2 men | The Collegiate Church of St. John of Beverley | Bersewyk paid 1200 eels by W. of Burton for half the lordship, do. (here means Òthe sameÓ) by Th. of Berswick for the other half | Leach, Arthur Francis, ed. Memorials of Beverley Minster: The Chapter Act Book of the Collegiate Church of S. John of Beverley, A. D. 1286-1347, with Illustrative Documents and Introduction. Edinburgh: Durham [Eng.] Pub. for the Society by Andrews & co., 1903. (313) | 53.9187 | -0.4622 | 53.839 | -0.4245 | |||
Storke | 1300c | 800 | 1 fisherman | Collegiate Church of St. John of Beverley | De heredibus Thome de Storke pro ij mesuagiis cum uno crofto duobus bovatis terre ibidem cum pertineutiis, viij centenis anguillarum vocatis stykell, vel xvjs, ad voluntatem domini. | Leach, Arthur Francis, ed. Memorials of Beverley Minster: The Chapter Act Book of the Collegiate Church of S. John of Beverley, A. D. 1286-1347, with Illustrative Documents and Introduction. Edinburgh: Durham [Eng.] Pub. for the Society by Andrews & co., 1903. (321) | 53.8504 | -0.4133 | 53.839 | -0.4245 | |||
Upwell | 1304 | 1425 | 2 fisheries | Honour of Wormegay | 2s. rents | Upwell first figures individually in the Honour of Wormegay at the death of Hugh Bardolf in 1304, when with Stow Bardolph it was extended at a capital messuage, 265 acres of land, 5 of them woodland, a marsh, a windmill, 2 fisheries producing 57 sticks of eels, 2s. | Charter | T D Atkinson, Ethel M Hampson, E T Long, C A F Meekings, Edward Miller, H B Wells and G M G Woodgate, 'Wisbech Hundred: Outwell and Upwell', in A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely: Volume 4, City of Ely; Ely, N. and S. Witchford and Wisbech Hundreds, ed. R B Pugh (London, 2002), pp. 206-219. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/cambs/vol4/pp206-219 [accessed 28 July 2017]. | 52.596 | 0.214 | 52.6779 | 0.4522 | |
Brambridge | 1323 | 5 | 1 mill | Bishop of Winchester | 20 s. | In 1323 20s. and five eels were paid for the farm of the mill of Brambridge | County Records | 'Parishes: Twyford', in A History of the County of Hampshire: Volume 3, ed. William Page (London, 1908), pp. 339-341. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/hants/vol3/pp339-341 [accessed 10 August 2017]. | 50.990392 | -1.3226 | 51.05977 | -1.310142 | At the time of the Domesday Survey there were four mills in Twyford parish; (fn. 15) and for some time there are entries in the Court Rolls for the farm of four mills in Twyford, called 'Cumton Mill,' Schaldeford Mill, Brambridge Mill, and North Twyford Mill.' (fn. 16) -- 16. Eccl. Com. Ct. R. 159270, bdle. 22, and 159280, bdle. 22. |
Formby | 1329 | 1 | 1 mill | Cockersand Abbey | Between 1205 and 1211 Henry de
Lea granted licence to William Blundell of Ince to erect a mill on the Raven
Meols side of the Alt, with the right to take eels at the sluice; the mill
was given to the monks of Whalley, who in 1329 agreed with Sir Richard de
Hoghton and his wife Sibyl to pay a rent of a gilt spur, or 4d., and reserve
the eel fishery to the lord of Raven Meols. Whalley Coucher (Chet. Soc),
ii, 497, 495, 515. William Blundell had already given a tithe of the multure
of this mill to Cockersand Abbey; Chartul. ii, 568. SCIANT etc. quod ego Willelmus Blundel dedi etc. totam 3 decimacionem moturae molendini mei super Alth in puram et perpetuam etc libere et quiete ab omni seculari servicio et exactione pro salute animae meae etc Cum warantia et testibus (1241) |
Monastery Records | 'Townships: Formby', in A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 3, ed. William Farrer and J Brownbill (London, 1907), pp. 45-52. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/lancs/vol3/pp45-52 [accessed 28 August 2017]. | 53.558271 | -3.068743 | 53.977 | -2.875 | ||
Coningsby | 1330 | 1500 | 2 weirs | John son of Alan de Cobeldik | Indenture of demise by John son of Alan de Cobeldik to John de Benyton and his assigns of a messuage in the town of Konyngesby lying in ' le Wildemore' next the river Wythem, and called 'Deynebothe,' with two weirs and the waters adjacent, viz. with the weir called 'Tynehering' and the weir called 'Swetingbight,' except the place and area lying between two houses situate in the same dwelling (manso) as enclosed by a wall and the Withem; to hold from the feast of the Apostles Philip and James next for eight years, by service of 43s. 4d., sixty geese and sixty 'stikkes' of live eels to be paid to the said master John yearly, viz. the 43s. 4d. quarterly on the feasts of St. Botolph, St. Michael, Christmas and Easter, the geese on the feast of St. Peter ad Vincula, and the eels on the feast of St. Martin in Winter; and if in any of the said eight years so many eels be not taken in the waters and weirs aforesaid, 3d. to be paid for every 'stikke' of eels lacking | 'Deeds: A.8501 - A.8600', in A Descriptive Catalogue of Ancient Deeds: Volume 4, ed. H C Maxwell Lyte (London, 1902), pp. 318-333. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/ancient-deeds/vol4/pp318-333 [accessed 15 August 2017]. | 53.1051 | -0.1752 | |||||
Sulhamstead Bannister | 1338 | 25 | Achard family | John son of John Bannister held a messuage and a carucate of land here in 1338, for which he owed the service of rendering one stick of eels yearly (Chan. Inq. a.q.d. file 245, no. 5; Cal. Close, 1349Ð54, p. 61) | County Records | 'Parishes: Sulhamstead Bannister', in A History of the County of Berkshire: Volume 3, ed. P H Ditchfield and William Page (London, 1923), pp. 430-433. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/berks/vol3/pp430-433 [accessed 28 July 2017]. | 51.414861 | -1.093707 | |||||
Sulhamstead Bannister | 1338 | 25 | Achard family | In 1338 Sulhamstead was held of the Achards by the service of rendering one stick of eels yearly (Chan. Inq. p.m. 12 Edw. III [2nd nos.], no. 21). | County Records | 'Parishes: Sulhamstead Bannister', in A History of the County of Berkshire: Volume 3, ed. P H Ditchfield and William Page (London, 1923), pp. 430-433. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/berks/vol3/pp430-433 [accessed 28 July 2017]. | 51.414861 | -1.093707 | |||||
Storke | 1355 | 400 | 1 fisherman | Collegiate Church of St. John of Beverley | John of Storke holds in Storke two messuages and one bovate of land at rent of 400 eels, 28 Edward III. | Leach, Arthur Francis, ed. Memorials of Beverley Minster: The Chapter Act Book of the Collegiate Church of S. John of Beverley, A. D. 1286-1347, with Illustrative Documents and Introduction. Edinburgh: Durham [Eng.] Pub. for the Society by Andrews & co., 1903. (322) | 53.8504 | -0.4133 | 53.839 | -0.4245 | |||
Heveringlond | 1376 | 25 | Montjoy Priory | 1 marc | Demise by John, the prior, and
the canons of Mountjoy to John ate Mille of Heveringlond, for his life, of a
water mill called 'Licemille,' he giving them a quarter of eels yearly
and one marc rent. ________ My presumption here is that a quarter of eels is the same as a stick Ñ one quarter of a hundred. |
'Deeds: A.2701 - A.2800', in A Descriptive Catalogue of Ancient Deeds: Volume 2, ed. H C Maxwell Lyte (London, 1894), pp. 111-122. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/ancient-deeds/vol2/pp111-122 [accessed 19 August 2017]. | 52.734219 | 1.196784 | 52.725387 | 1.194348 | |||
Bighton | 1385 | 250 | 1 mill | Auche Fraunk, Lord of Byketon | 66s. 8 d. | Aucher Fraunk, lord of Byketon, has demised to Thomas Mulleward, miller, his water-mill there, with fisheries, a ham of meadow, the branches of the willows standing on the east side of the pond, suit, millstones, etc., for ten years; rent, 66s. 8d. and at Michaelmas 10 sticks of eels | Deed | 'Deeds: C.6701 - C.6800', in A Descriptive Catalogue of Ancient Deeds: Volume 6, ed. H C Maxwell Lyte (London, 1915), pp. 378-389. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/ancient-deeds/vol6/pp378-389 [accessed 20 August 2017]. | 51.10438 | -1.125267 | 51.10438 | -1.125267 | |
Myddle | 1430c | 200 | uncertain | Manor | Manorial stews and fisheries provided fish for the lord's household: at Myddle in the 1420s and 1430s several hundred eels were caught each year and sent to the household or sold, but the fishery was farmed out by 1443-4. (fn. 295) 295. S.R.O. 212, box 14, bailiffs' accts. 1-2, 3-4, 7-8, 10- 11, 21-2 Hen. VI. | D C Cox, J R Edwards, R C Hill, Ann J Kettle, R Perren, Trevor Rowley and P A Stamper, 'Domesday Book: 1300-1540', in A History of the County of Shropshire: Volume 4, Agriculture, ed. G C Baugh and C R Elrington (London, 1989), pp. 72-118. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/salop/vol4/pp72-118 [accessed 28 August 2017]. | 52.806562 | -2.788544 | 52.806562 | -2.788544 | |||
Midelney | 1475 | 788 | uncertain | Abbey of Muchelney | By the end of the 15th century the demesne lands actually cultivated by the abbey included 97 a. of arable. In 1484Ð5 41 a. were sown with wheat, 39_ a. with oats, 12 a. with beans, and 4_ a. with barley. The wheat yield was nearly twice as great as the oats. By 1484Ð5 the abbot was employing a shepherd, two ploughmen, two drovers, and a keeper of the barton. In 1440 the demesne livestock comprised 60 cattle, including 19 cows but no oxen, and 25 horses. A tenant in 1411 had a flock of 100 sheep. A levy on pigs was paid at the manor court early in the 15th century and 53 were counted in 1412. Figures for the rest of the century are much lower. There was an eel fishery on the Yeo in 1475; it was let for 31_ 'sticks' of eels, and the lord had to find timber to make and repair the weir. | County Records | A P Baggs, R J E Bush and Margaret Tomlinson, 'Parishes: Muchelney', in A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 3, ed. R W Dunning (London, 1974), pp. 38-49. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/som/vol3/pp38-49 [accessed 13 September 2017]. | 51.00397 | -2.84029 | 51.0153 | -2.80481 | ||
Hilgey | 1500c | 1000 | 1 | Castleacre Priory | This belonged to the great lordship of Methwold, and extended here, and was possessed under the Earls Warren and Surry, by the families of Cailli and Clifton. Roger de Cailli gave to the priory of Castleacre all his rents of eels here; viz. 1000 and an half per ann. for the soul of Simon his father, Alice his mother, Joan and Beatrix his wives; and Alice, by her deed sans date, gave a fishery called Poltsere, to find the house 1000 eels per ann. Ralph de Baliol, by his deed sans date, gave also for the soul of his lord, the Earl Warren, a rent of 2000 eels, with Goderick de Wodebrict, his wife and children: ÑWitnesses, Reginald de Warren, &c. | County Records | Francis Blomefield, 'Clackclose Hundred and Half: Hilgey', in An Essay Towards A Topographical History of the County of Norfolk: Volume 7 (London, 1807), pp. 369-374. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/topographical-hist-norfolk/vol7/pp369-374 [accessed 25 July 2017]. | 52.559546 | 0.389496 | 52.700528 | 0.683556 | ||
Hilgey | 1500c | 2000 | 1 | Castleacre Priory | This belonged to the great lordship of Methwold, and extended here, and was possessed under the Earls Warren and Surry, by the families of Cailli and Clifton. Roger de Cailli gave to the priory of Castleacre all his rents of eels here; viz. 1000 and an half per ann. for the soul of Simon his father, Alice his mother, Joan and Beatrix his wives; and Alice, by her deed sans date, gave a fishery called Poltsere, to find the house 1000 eels per ann. Ralph de Baliol, by his deed sans date, gave also for the soul of his lord, the Earl Warren, a rent of 2000 eels, with Goderick de Wodebrict, his wife and children: ÑWitnesses, Reginald de Warren, &c. | County Records | Francis Blomefield, 'Clackclose Hundred and Half: Hilgey', in An Essay Towards A Topographical History of the County of Norfolk: Volume 7 (London, 1807), pp. 369-374. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/topographical-hist-norfolk/vol7/pp369-374 [accessed 25 July 2017]. | 52.559546 | 0.389496 | 52.700528 | 0.683556 | ||
Hilgey | 1500c | 1500 | 1 | Castleacre Priory | This belonged to the great lordship of Methwold, and extended here, and was possessed under the Earls Warren and Surry, by the families of Cailli and Clifton. Roger de Cailli gave to the priory of Castleacre all his rents of eels here; viz. 1000 and an half per ann. for the soul of Simon his father, Alice his mother, Joan and Beatrix his wives; and Alice, by her deed sans date, gave a fishery called Poltsere, to find the house 1000 eels per ann. Ralph de Baliol, by his deed sans date, gave also for the soul of his lord, the Earl Warren, a rent of 2000 eels, with Goderick de Wodebrict, his wife and children: ÑWitnesses, Reginald de Warren, &c. | County Records | Francis Blomefield, 'Clackclose Hundred and Half: Hilgey', in An Essay Towards A Topographical History of the County of Norfolk: Volume 7 (London, 1807), pp. 369-374. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/topographical-hist-norfolk/vol7/pp369-374 [accessed 25 July 2017]. | 52.559546 | 0.389496 | 52.700528 | 0.683556 | ||
Helgey (Hilgay) | 1547 | 1 | Dean and Chapter of Norwich | Of The Revenues And Liberties Of The Prior And Convent, And Now of The Dean And Chapter. Herbert, the founder, first appointed a prior and monks here, in room of secular priests, which had always hitherto attended the Bishops as their chapter; and settled the following revenues, which heretofore belonged to the see, for their maintenance, and got them confirmed by the Pope, King, and Archbishop, viz. all offerings, mortuaries, and burials, in the cathedral; the fair on Tombland, which Will. Rufus first granted, and Henry I. prolonged, with the tithes of his manors, except those which he had settled on his chaplains; the towns of Lakenham and Ameringhale, (except the land of Osbert the Archdeacon,) and the moiety of Thorp-wood; the liberty of warren and hunting in those towns being reserved to the Bishop. The villages of Hindringham and Hilderston; the mills, lands, and meadows, at Norwich, which formerly belonged to the bishoprick, half Thorp meadows on both sides of the water, the Bishop's house at Helgey, and the marsh and eel-rents which belonged to it; É All these, and the following revenues, were confirmed by letters patents of the re-foundation of Edward VI. dated at Westminster, November 9, A¡. reg. I. which were confirmed by authority of parliament, viz | Monastery Records | Francis Blomefield, 'City of Norwich, chapter 44: Of the revenues and liberties of the Prior and convent and the Dean and Chapter', in An Essay Towards A Topographical History of the County of Norfolk: Volume 4, the History of the City and County of Norwich, Part II (London, 1806), pp. 556-570. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/topographical-hist-norfolk/vol4/pp556-570 [accessed 30 August 2017]. | 52.559546 | 0.389496 | 52.629208 | 1.299477 | |||
Warrington | 1547 | 7500 | 2 mills | Thomas Boeteler | Thomas Sankey in 1542 held the two water-mills on the Sankey; and five years later Thomas Boteler leased the mills to him for twenty-one years at a rent of £6 13s. 4d. and 300 'stick eels in season | £6 13 s. 4 d. | 'Townships: Warrington', in A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 3, ed. William Farrer and J Brownbill (London, 1907), pp. 316-324. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/lancs/vol3/pp316-324 [accessed 28 August 2017]. | 53.390044 | -2.59695 | 53.390044 | -2.59695 | ||
Brambridge | 1572 | 125 | 1 mill | Gilbert Welles, High Sherrif of Hampshire | 5 sticks | County Records | Bill Attwell, A History of the Attwell Family 1200-1650 (Lulu.com, 2014). 38. | 50.990392 | -1.3226 | 51.0632 | -1.308 | Destination location coordiantes are for Wincester. | |
Great Ryburgh | 1579 | 1 | 1 mill | Thomas Buttes | Thomas Buttes, Esquire, leases to Simon Mussett, miller, his watermill with the millhouse in Great Ryburgh called Southemylle, "with all the going gear," and one messuage called Milles near the said mill, late of Thomas Browne, tanner, and one yard adjoining called Newesteade Yarde, and also one parcel of morishe (or marishe) ground (1 acre) on the east of the mill. Term, 7 years. Rent, 13l. 6s. 8d. The lessor is bound to grind at the mill. The lessee to leave one overstone and one netherstone of certain sizes, and shall not fish in any part of the dam, river, or stream that cometh to the mill, except that he may take eels and other fish at the "owteloades" of the mill or mill-wheel with shakenetts, a moiety of which eels and fish is to be delivered to the lessor.ÑNo. 633. | Other | Historical Manuscripts Commission, 'Muniments of Edmond R. Wodehouse: Appendices', in The Manuscripts of Rye and Hereford Corporations, Etc. Thirteenth Report, Appendix: Part IV (London, 1892), pp. 421-494. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/hist-mss-comm/vol31/pt4/pp421-494 [accessed 28 August 2017]. | 52.816 | 0.9166 | 52.816 | 0.9166 | ||
Wheathampstead and Harpenden | 1651 | 1 | 1 mill | John Wittewronge of Rothamsted | At the time of the Commonwealth deans and chapters were by Act of Parliament abolished, and their lands placed in the hands of trustees for sale. Under this Act the manor of Kinsbourne alias Harpendenbury and the manor house of Harpendenbury were, on 14 February, 1649Ð50, bought for £765 14s. 10d. by John Wittewronge of Rothamsted, (fn. 13) and on 26 February following he purchased for £1,014 8s. 11d. the manor of Wheathampstead and Harpenden, and the moiety of the royalties of the fishing of the mill-pool, with half the eels taken there and all the fishing appertaining to the river, the moiety of the dove-house, and all fines levied before the justices of the peace for any cause arising in the manor or liberties | County Records | 'Wheathampstead with Harpenden: Manors', in A History of the County of Hertford: Volume 2, ed. William Page (London, 1908), pp. 297-309. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/herts/vol2/pp297-309 [accessed 28 August 2017]. | 51.812 | -0.293 | 51.812 | -0.293 | coordiantes are for Wheathampstead |