Colmworth

Other current and historical names

Culmeuuorde
Chapel End
Church End
Colmeborde-worde

Parish/Community: Colmworth
Unitary Authority: Bedford
Region: Eastern

Category: Populated Place
Type: Village

Latitude/Longitude: 52°12'59"N 0°22'41"W
Eastings/Northings: 510896, 258838
OS Grid: TL108588
Mapcode Local: GBR H2N.16L
Mapcode Global: VHFPX.DKD3

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

Colmworth in historic gazetteers

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

Colmworth, par., on river Ouse, in co. and 7½ miles NE. of Bedford. 2310 ac., pop. 385; P.O.

Colmworth in the Domesday Book

A village in Barford hundred, in the county of Bedfordshire.

- Overlord in 1066: King Edward
- Lord of the Manor in 1066: Eskil of Ware
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Hugh of Beauchamp
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: Wimund of Tessel (subinfeudated)
- Taxable Value: 5 geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £4 in 1066; £5 in 1070; £5 in 1086
- Households: 12 villagers; 13 smallholders; 1 slave
- Plough Teams: 2 lord's ploughs; 8 men's ploughs (10 plough lands)
- Woodland: 200 pigs

British Place Names

Colmworth, Bedford

Colmworth is a village in Bedford

Colmworth in historic gazetteers

Colmworth in the Domesday Book