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From: Roz Griston <>
Subject: RE: COEL and Domesday Names access
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 11:21:19 -0800


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You might find more in "The Domesday Book, English Heritage, Then and
Now"
by Thomas Hinde (Bramley Books, 1985) but I think this only gives the
chief
land holders.

i happen to have this book at my fingertips. if someone would like a
look up, don't hestitate to ask..BUT, please have a village and county.
the writing is extremely small and in pale blue.

do not expect a wonderous report back. some entries are very brief..one
or two sentences, others are a good paragraph.

a sample:
Griston: Gres-Gristuna: King's Land, also in the custody of Godric;
formerly a free woman; William de Warrenne; Roger Bigot; Ralph Baynard;
Osbert from John nephew of Waleran Church, 10 beehives, 30 pigs, 10
cattle, a village. The Elizabethan Hall, now a farmhouse, is said to
have been the home of the Babes in the Wood, murdered in nearby Wayland
or Wailing Wood. The story dates from the Stuart days.

Merton: Meretuna: Ralph Baynard, 24 pigs, small village. Church with a
Saxon wall and north tower; hall. Edward Fitzgerald, translator of the
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, died here (1883)

the book is beautiful, loaded with pictures/graphics/maps of england
and castles/ruins. it profiles 150 selected places, and has 12,500
entries listed under the modern names.

roz

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