Birling

Other current and historical names

Birlings
Byrling
Berlinge
Horn Street

Parish/Community: Birling
District/Borough: Tonbridge and Malling
County: Kent
Region: South East

Category: Populated Place
Type: Village

Latitude/Longitude: 51°19'5"N 0°24'30"E
Eastings/Northings: 567929, 160443
OS Grid: TQ679604
Mapcode Local: GBR NP5.82Q
Mapcode Global: VHJM5.1487

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

Birling in historic gazetteers

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

Birling.-- par., mid. Kent, near river Medway, 6 miles NW. of Maidstone, 1884 ac., pop. 884; P.O.

Birling in the Domesday Book

A village in Larkfield hundred, in the county of Kent.

- Overlord in 1066: King Edward
- Lord of the Manor in 1066: Esbiorn Bicga
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Bishop Odo of Bayeux
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: Ralph of Courbépine (subinfeudated)
- Taxable Value: 6 geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £12 in 1066; £6 in 1070; £12 in 1086
- Households: 10 villagers; 14 smallholders; 6 slaves
- Plough Teams: 1 lord's plough; 6 men's ploughs
- Meadow: 12 acres
- Woodland: 40 swine render
- Pasture: 50 cattle
- Churches: 1
- Mills: 1, value 10 shillings
- Other resources: 1 fishery

British Place Names

Birling, Kent

Birling is a village in Kent

Birling in historic gazetteers

Birling in the Domesday Book