Dunton

Other current and historical names

Donitone
Dani

Built-Up Area: Dunton
Parish/Community: Dunton
Unitary Authority: Central Bedfordshire
Region: Eastern

Category: Populated Place
Type: Village

Latitude/Longitude: 52°4'57"N 0°11'48"W
Eastings/Northings: 523667, 244214
OS Grid: TL236442
Mapcode Local: GBR J5R.K29
Mapcode Global: VHGN1.JXWF

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

Dunton in historic gazetteers

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

Dunton.-- par. and vil., Bedfordshire, 3½ miles SE. of Biggleswade, 2840 ac., pop. 477.

Dunton in the Domesday Book

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

Two manors recorded in Domesday.

1st Manor
- Lord of the Manor in 1066: Archbishop Stigand
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Richard Poynant
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: Richard Poynant
- Taxable Value: 8 ¹⁄₄ geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £6 in 1066; £6 in 1070; £8 in 1086
- Households: 12 villagers; 2 smallholders; 3 slaves
- Plough Teams: 3 lord's ploughs; 5 men's ploughs (8 plough lands)
- Woodland: 60 pigs
2nd Manor
- Overlord in 1066: Archbishop Stigand
- Lord of the Manor in 1066: Freemen, four
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Walter Giffard
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: Ralph of Lanquetot (subinfeudated)
- Taxable Value: 1 ³⁄₄ geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £1 13/2½ in 1066; £1 13/2½ in 1070; £1 13/2½ in 1086
- Households: 4 villagers; 2 smallholders

British Place Names

Dunton, Central Bedfordshire

Dunton is a village in Central Bedfordshire

Dunton in historic gazetteers

Dunton in the Domesday Book