Cowlinge

Other current and historical names

Cowlidge
Cowling
Cooling
Culinge

Parish/Community: Cowlinge
District/Borough: St Edmundsbury
County: Suffolk
Region: Eastern

Category: Populated Place
Type: Village

Latitude/Longitude: 52°9'34"N 0°30'19"E
Eastings/Northings: 571475, 254220
OS Grid: TL714542
Mapcode Local: GBR PDC.GMP
Mapcode Global: VHJGY.QZ1B

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

Cowlinge in historic gazetteers

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

Cowlinge, or Cooling, par., W. Suffolk, 8 miles NW. of Clare, 3025 ac., pop. 678; P.O.

Cowlinge in the Domesday Book

A village in Risbridge hundred, in the county of Suffolk.

- Overlord in 1066: King Edward
- Lords of the Manor in 1066: Manni Swart; Free man, one
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Count Alan
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: Count Alan
- Taxable Value: 9 ⁷⁄₈ geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £9 in 1066; £20 10/- in 1086
- Households: 19 villagers; 17 smallholders; 3 slaves
- Plough Teams: 3 lord's ploughs; 8 ¹⁄₂ men's ploughs
- Meadow: 60 acres
- Woodland: 60 pigs
- Churches: 1
- Animals in 1066: 7 cattle; 40 pigs; 40 goats
- Animals in 1086: 7 cattle; 40 pigs; 40 goats

British Place Names

Cowlinge, Suffolk

Cowlinge is a village in Suffolk

Cowlinge in historic gazetteers

Cowlinge in the Domesday Book