Aspenden

Other current and historical names

Aspeden
Absesdene

Parish/Community: Aspenden
District/Borough: East Hertfordshire
County: Hertfordshire
Region: Eastern

Category: Populated Place
Type: Village

Latitude/Longitude: 51°56'9"N 0°1'15"W
Eastings/Northings: 536145, 228240
OS Grid: TL361282
Mapcode Local: GBR K92.MHC
Mapcode Global: VHGNX.LL7Q

Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Aspenden within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.

Aspenden in historic gazetteers

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Aspeden, par. and seat, N. Herts, 1 mile SW. of Buntingford, 1407 ac., pop. 613.

Aspenden in the Domesday Book

A village in Edwinstree hundred, in the county of Hertfordshire.

- Overlord in 1066: King Edward
- Lord of the Manor in 1066: Aldred, a royal thane
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Eudo the steward
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: Richard of Sackville (subinfeudated)
- Taxable Value: 1 ¹⁄₂ geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £3 in 1066; £1 10/- in 1070; £4 in 1086
- Households: 6 smallholders; 3 slaves; 1 priest
- Plough Teams: 2 lord's ploughs; 1 men's plough (3 plough lands)
- Meadow: 1 plough
- Woodland: 20 pigs

British Place Names

Aspenden, Hertfordshire

Aspenden is a village in Hertfordshire

Aspenden in historic gazetteers

Aspenden in the Domesday Book