Blean

Other current and historical names

Bleham

Built-Up Area: Canterbury
Parish/Community: St. Cosmus and St. Damian in the Blean
District/Borough: Canterbury
County: Kent
Region: South East

Category: Populated Place
Type: Village

Latitude/Longitude: 51°18'23"N 1°2'35"E
Eastings/Northings: 612214, 160788
OS Grid: TR122607
Mapcode Local: GBR TXV.0KN
Mapcode Global: VHLGF.1FC6

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

Blean in historic gazetteers

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

Blean, par., E. Kent, 2 miles NW. of Canterbury, 2334 ac., pop. 687; P.O.

Blean in the Domesday Book

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

- Overlord in 1066: King Edward
- Lord of the Manor in 1066: Northmann of Mereworth
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Haimo the sheriff
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: Haimo the sheriff
- Taxable Value: 1 geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £8 in 1066; £6 in 1070; £6 in 1086
- Households: 12 villagers
- Plough Teams: 1 lord's plough; 2 men's ploughs (4 plough lands)
- Meadow: 2 acres
- Woodland: 60 swine render
- Churches: 1
- Other resources: 1 fishery

British Place Names

Blean, Kent

Blean is a village in Canterbury, Kent

Blean in historic gazetteers

Blean in the Domesday Book