Downhead

Other current and historical names

Dunehefde

Parish/Community: Downhead
District/Borough: Mendip
County: Somerset
Region: South West

Category: Populated Place
Type: Hamlet

Latitude/Longitude: 51°12'42"N 2°26'38"W
Eastings/Northings: 369072, 145926
OS Grid: ST690459
Mapcode Local: GBR MY.3SPJ
Mapcode Global: VH89W.LS7Z

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

Downhead in historic gazetteers

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

Downhead.-- par., mid. Somerset, 5 miles NE. of Shepton Mallet, 1525 ac., pop. 178.

Downhead in the Domesday Book

A village in Whitstone hundred, in the county of Somerset.

- Lord of the Manor in 1066: Wulfgar the monk
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Abbey of Glastonbury
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: Erneis of Downhead (subinfeudated)
- Taxable Value: 3 geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £2 in 1070; £2 in 1086
- Households: 5 villagers; 4 smallholders
- Meadow: 5 acres
- Woodland: ¹⁄₂ league
- Pasture: 5 furlongs

British Place Names

Downhead, Somerset

Downhead is a hamlet in Somerset

Downhead in historic gazetteers

Downhead in the Domesday Book