Monument record 0939300000 - Wooburn village

Summary

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

Protected Status/Designation

  • Conservation Area: Wooburn Town Conservation Area (DBC7308)

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Type and Period (3)

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

Description

Walter holds Wooburn himself from the Bishop [of Lincoln]. It answers for 8 1/2 hides. Land for 9 ploughs; in lordship 2. 12 villagers with 13 smallholdres have 10 ploughs. 1 slave; 8 mills at 104s; meadow for 6 ploughs, and for the horses. From the fishery 300 eels; woodland, 200 pigs and 7s 4d too. Total value £15; when acquired 100s; before 1066 £12. Earl Harold held this manor. (B1).
NGR to centre of village.
Conservation Area designated in 1995 (B2).

Sources (2)

  • <1>SBC4271 Bibliographic reference: John Morris (ed). 1978. Domesday Book: Buckinghamshire. 3a:4.
  • <2>SBC23291 Bibliographic reference: Wycombe District Council. 1995. Wooburn Town Conservation Area Character Survey.

Location

Grid reference SU 908 877 (point)
Civil Parish WOOBURN, Wycombe, Buckinghamshire

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Record last edited

Mar 21 2011 1:50PM

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