Bythorn

Other current and historical names

Bierne

Parish/Community: Bythorn and Keyston
District/Borough: Huntingdonshire
County: Cambridgeshire
Region: Eastern

Category: Populated Place
Type: Village

Latitude/Longitude: 52°22'11"N 0°27'1"W
Eastings/Northings: 505601, 275790
OS Grid: TL056757
Mapcode Local: GBR FZ9.DYM
Mapcode Global: VHFP3.4PRJ

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

Bythorn in historic gazetteers

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

Bythorn, par., W. Huntingdonshire, on border of co., 6½ miles NW. of Kimbolton, 1503 ac., pop. 256.

Bythorn in the Domesday Book

A village in Leightonstone hundred, in the county of Huntingdonshire.

- Lord of the Manor in 1066: Abbey of Ramsey St Benedict
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Abbey of Ramsey
- Lords of the Manor in 1086: 2 men-at-arms (subinfeudated); Abbey of Ramsey
- Taxable Value: 4 geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £5 in 1066; £5 10/- in 1086
- Households: 12 villagers; 7 smallholders
- Plough Teams: 1 lord's plough; 9 men's ploughs (4 plough lands)
- Meadow: 30 acres

British Place Names

Bythorn, Cambridgeshire

Bythorn is a village in Cambridgeshire

Bythorn in historic gazetteers

Bythorn in the Domesday Book