Domesday Book (Westwick)
ENTRIES FOR WESTWICK IN THE DOMESDAY BOOK
In CHESTERTON Hundred:
Land of Picot in Cambridge
In WESTWICK Odo holds 3 hides from Picot. Land for 2 ploughs.
In Lordship 1 ½;
2 villagers with 1 smallholder have ½ plough.
Meadow for 2 ploughs.
Value 60s; when acquired 70s; before 1066, 100s.
Blackwin the Sheriff, King Edward’s man, held this land and could sell. A Freeman of the Abbot of Ely’s had 40 acres of this land; but he could withdraw, but the jurisdiction remained with the Abbot.
Land of David of Argenton
In WESTWICK Robert holds 1 hide from David. Land for 1 plough; it is there.
Meadow for 1 plough.
Value 20s; when acquired 10s; before 1066, 20s.
Godmund, Earl Waltheof’s man, held this land; the jurisdiction remained with the Abbot of Ely.
Reference: Domesday Book 18 Cambridgeshire. History from the Sources series. Gen. Ed. John Morris. Ed. Alexander Rumble. Pub. Phillimore, Chichester, 1981. ISBN 0 85033 387 3 (case). ISBN 0 85033 388 1 (limp).
Compiled by HAE Stroude, 2010