Monument record 0958600000 - QUARRENDON VILLAGE

Summary

Medieval settlement of Quarrendon, recorded in Domesday Book

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Type and Period (2)

  • (Former Type) SETTLEMENT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • (Former Type) VILL (Recorded 1086, 11th Century - 1000 AD to 1099 AD)

Description

Geoffrey [de Mandeville] holds Quarrendon himself. It answers for 10 hides. Land for 10 ploughs; in lordship 4 hides; 4 ploughs there. 20 villagers with 8 smallholders have 8 ploughs. Meadow for 10 ploughs; woodland, 300 pigs. Total value £8; when acquired 100s; before 1066 £6. Swein, Asgar the Constable's man, held this manor; he could not sell except with his permission (B1).
NGR to approximate centre of Quarrendon earthworks.

Sources (3)

  • <1>SBC4271 Bibliographic reference: John Morris (ed). 1978. Domesday Book: Buckinghamshire. 21:4.
  • <2>SBC19329 Article in serial: Paul Everson. 2001. Peasants, Peers and Graziers: The Landscape of Quarrendon, Buckinghamshire, interpreted.
  • <3>SBC25937 Unpublished document: Michael Farley Archaeology. 1999. Quarrendon: A Preliminary Study of its Archaeology and Management.

Location

Grid reference SP 802 158 (point)
Civil Parish QUARRENDON, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire

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Record last edited

Feb 22 2023 12:49PM

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