Monument record 0933500000 - Medmenham village

Summary

Medieval and post-medieval settlement of Medmenham, recorded in Domesday Book.

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  • Conservation Area: Medmenham Conservation Area

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Type and Period (2)

  • (Former Type) VILL (Recorded 1086, 11th Century - 1000 AD to 1099 AD)
  • SETTLEMENT (Medieval to Modern - 1066 AD to 1999 AD)

Description

Hugh [of Bolbec] holds Medmenham himself. It answers for 10 hides. Land for 10 ploughs; in lordship 4 hides; 2 ploughs there. 10 villagers with 8 smallholders have 8 ploughs. 4 slaves; from the fishery 1,000 eels; meadow for all the ploughs; woodland, 50 pigs. The total value is and was 100s; before 1066 £8. Wulfstan, a thane of King Edward's, held this manor; he could sell to whom he would (B1).
NGR to centre of village.

Sources (2)

  • <1>SBC4271 Bibliographic reference: John Morris (ed). 1978. Domesday Book: Buckinghamshire. 26:4.
  • <2>SBC25207 Bibliographic reference: Arthur H Plaisted. 1958. The Romance of a Chiltern Village: 5,000 BC to 1957 AD.

Location

Grid reference SU 805 844 (point)
Civil Parish MEDMENHAM, Wycombe, Buckinghamshire

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Record last edited

Sep 22 2021 9:58AM

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