Bigbury

Other current and historical names

Bicheberie
Bicheberia

Parish/Community: Bigbury
District/Borough: South Hams
County: Devon
Region: South West

Category: Populated Place
Type: Village

Latitude/Longitude: 50°18'5"N 3°52'22"W
Eastings/Northings: 266704, 46292
OS Grid: SX667462
Mapcode Local: GBR QB.JDW0
Mapcode Global: FRA 28S7.DZB

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

Bigbury in historic gazetteers

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

Bigbury, par. and vil., S. Devon, on river Avon, 3½ miles S. of Modbury, 3167 ac., pop. 451.

Bigbury in the Domesday Book

A village in Alleriga hundred, in the county of Devon.

- Lord of the Manor in 1066: Ordwulf of Tehidy
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Count of Mortain
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: Reginald of Vautortes (subinfeudated)
- Taxable Value: 2 geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £7 in 1070; £3 in 1086
- Households: 12 villagers; 12 smallholders
- Plough Teams: 2 lord's ploughs; 3 ¹⁄₂ men's ploughs (12 plough lands)
- Meadow: 5 acres
- Woodland: 1 mixed measure
- Pasture: 30 acres
- Other resources: 1 salthouse
- Animals in 1086: 10 cattle; 9 pigs; 9 goats; 1 cob

British Place Names

Bigbury, Devon

Bigbury is a village in Devon

Bigbury in historic gazetteers

Bigbury in the Domesday Book