Brockdish

Other current and historical names

Brodise
Brodiso

Parish/Community: Brockdish
District/Borough: South Norfolk
County: Norfolk
Region: Eastern

Category: Populated Place
Type: Village

Latitude/Longitude: 52°22'10"N 1°14'53"E
Eastings/Northings: 621226, 279577
OS Grid: TM212795
Mapcode Local: GBR VKG.JD7
Mapcode Global: VHL99.LP7T

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

Brockdish in historic gazetteers

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

Brockdish, par., S. Norfolk, on river Waveney, 5 miles E. of Diss, 1069 ac., pop. 434; P.O.

Brockdish in the Domesday Book

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

Two manors recorded in Domesday.

1st Manor
- Lord of the Manor in 1066: Abbey of Bury St Edmunds
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Abbey of Bury St Edmunds
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: Abbey of Bury St Edmunds
- Taxable Value: 3 ¹⁄₈ geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £4 in 1066; £5 1/12 in 1086
- Households: 11 villagers; 10 smallholders; 2 freemen
- Plough Teams: 2 lord's ploughs; 6 men's ploughs
- Meadow: 12 acres
- Woodland: 40 pigs
- Churches: 1
- Animals in 1066: 10 cattle; 4 cobs
- Animals in 1086: 10 cattle; 11 pigs; 20 goats; 4 cobs
2nd Manor
- Overlords in 1066: Archbishop Stigand; Abbey of Bury St Edmunds
- Lord of the Manor in 1066: Free men, twenty-eight
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: King William
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: King William
- Taxable Value: 1 ⁵⁄₈ geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £2 in 1066; £16 in 1086
- Plough Teams: 7 men's ploughs
- Meadow: 6 acres
- Woodland: 12 pigs

British Place Names

Brockdish, Norfolk

Brockdish is a village in Norfolk

Brockdish in historic gazetteers

Brockdish in the Domesday Book