Bawsey

Other current and historical names

Boweseia
Heuseda

Parish/Community: Leziate
District/Borough: King's Lynn and West Norfolk
County: Norfolk
Region: Eastern

Category: Populated Place
Type: Hamlet

Latitude/Longitude: 52°44'48"N 0°29'41"E
Eastings/Northings: 568500, 319500
OS Grid: TF685195
Mapcode Local: GBR P55.ZXD
Mapcode Global: WHKQD.K7W1

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

Bawsey in historic gazetteers

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

Bawsey, par., W. Norfolk, 3 miles NE. of King's Lynn, 1090 ac., pop. 70.

Bawsey in the Domesday Book

A village in Freebridge hundred, in the county of Norfolk.

- Lord of the Manor in 1066: Godwin son of Alfhere
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Robert Malet
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: Robert Malet
- Taxable Value: 1 ¹⁄₈ geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £1 10/- in 1086
- Households: 5 villagers; 12 smallholders; 3 freemen; 3 slaves
- Plough Teams: 1 lord's plough; ¹⁄₄ men's plough
- Meadow: 4 acres
- Woodland: 16 pigs
- Mills: 1
- Other resources: 1.5 salthouses
- Animals in 1066: 1 cob
- Animals in 1086: 14 pigs; 50 goats; 1 cob; 2 oxen

British Place Names

Bawsey, Norfolk

Bawsey is a hamlet in Norfolk

Bawsey in historic gazetteers

Bawsey in the Domesday Book