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Maltings Tunnel

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alyson
February 7, 2017
Reference

Domesday Book terms

Carucate - this was the area that could be cultivated by one plough (with its eight Oxen) in a year and a day. It equates, roughly to 120 acres. Demesne - Land in "lordship" whose produce is devoted to the Lord rather than his tenants. Acre - 4,047 square metres but more sensibly there are 640 acres to the square…
alyson
February 1, 2017
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1356 Court Roll names matched with 1327 Subsidy returns

Edmund  Wat native tenant Augustus  Austyn native tenant Simon  , native tenant John  Seweyn/Sekeyn native tenant Robert  Koc native tenant William  Pye     John  Gerard     John      John  ,     Richard  Herman     Robert  del Clyff     Hugh  le Lytel      add to ] gives 14c Names spreadsheet. Matches Cook, Herman, Pye.
alyson
December 11, 2016
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Fish Traps or Kiddles

See ] From: ENGLISH HERITAGE-Suffolk Coastal NMP Project SUFFOLK COUNTY COUNCIL  A number of fishtraps, of a type known as ‘kiddles’ (Strachan 1995) are situated off Stonner Point in the inter-tidal zone of the River Deben.  The fish traps consist of groups of posts arranged in lines to create roughly v-shaped and possibly interconnected structures which point out into the…
alyson
November 24, 2016
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1800 Isaac Johnson map

This shows how ] was referred to just as "Leading to the Street" which was ]. Note also how ] continues directly from it without today's dogleg. The status of the Northern part of Mill Lane is unclear. ] does not appear. On the ] ] is called "New Road" - we don't know when the ] was built. Little change…
alyson
November 24, 2016
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Robert del Clyff

He was quite a character from the 1367 Court Roll reading by Mark Bailey. Note that this was after the Pestilence so he may have felt that he had the upper hand. —May 1356 ‘refuses to perform plough services as summoned by the lord’s reap reeve on four occasions’, fined 12d.  ‘pastures his sheep on le hethe against the will…
alyson
November 22, 2016
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1035 and 1044 gift of land Leofgifu

Update: 01FEB20 Another, slightly later, document we found is an example of this confusion. An academic paper ((Williams, A. (n.d.) Earls, ceorls, thegns and lords.))  quoted: 'between 1035 and 1044, the East Anglian lady Leofgifu gave Godric her reeve the land at Waldringfield, Suffolk, which she had previously loaned to him.' For some time we took this to be correct…
alyson
November 21, 2016
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Notes on Domesday entries

National Archives notes Open Domesday entry Little Domesday Book –Suffolk I Land of the King Belonging to the Realm, which Roger Bigod keeps in Suffolk. HUNDRED OF CARLFORD VI Robert Malet P1210 column 2 halfway down “In Lesser Waldringfield 1 sokeman of Eadric 22 acres of land, 1 bordar and 1 plough, worth 2s.” Also held land in Kesgrave and…
alyson
November 21, 2016
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Information from Court Rolls

We have Court Rolls dating back to 1356 for the Manor of Waldringfield Hilton and from 1561 for the Manor of Waldringfield Rivershall. These refer to Manors rather than to Waldringfield or Lesser  Waldringfield as in the Domesday book. They clearly overlapped the current parish but may have had diffent boundaries. As we saw in the Domesday Book records holding…
alyson
November 19, 2016