Fordham

Other current and historical names

Fordeham
Forham

Built-Up Area: Fordham
Parish/Community: Fordham
District/Borough: East Cambridgeshire
County: Cambridgeshire
Region: Eastern

Category: Populated Place
Type: Village

Latitude/Longitude: 52°18'40"N 0°23'26"E
Eastings/Northings: 563064, 270819
OS Grid: TL630708
Mapcode Local: GBR N94.3JV
Mapcode Global: VHJG9.Q5BH

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

Fordham in historic gazetteers

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

Fordham.-- par. and vil. with ry. sta., E. Cambridgeshire, 5 miles N. of Newmarket, 4050 ac., pop. 1191; 1 mile S. of vil. is the seat of Fordham Abbey.

Fordham in the Domesday Book

A village in Staploe hundred, in the county of Cambridgeshire.

Two manors recorded in Domesday.

1st Manor
- Overlord in 1066: King Edward
- Lords of the Manor in 1066: King Edward; Brunmann
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: King William
- Lords of the Manor in 1086: Brunmann (subinfeudated); King William
- Taxable Value: 6 ¹⁄₂ geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £10 in 1066; £23 8/2½ in 1086
- Households: 6 villagers; 15 smallholders; 1 slave
- Plough Teams: 2 lord's ploughs; 4 men's ploughs (10 plough lands)
- Meadow: 6 ploughs
- Mills: 2, value 16 shillings
2nd Manor
- Overlords in 1066: Earl Algar; Edeva the fair
- Lords of the Manor in 1066: Freeman, one; Freemen, two
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Count Alan
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: Wiuhomarch the steward (subinfeudated)
- Taxable Value: 3 ¹⁄₂ geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £3 10/- in 1066; £3 in 1070; £4 in 1086
- Households: 3 freemen
- Plough Teams: 1 lord's plough; 3 men's ploughs (4 plough lands)
- Meadow: 1 plough

British Place Names

Fordham, Cambridgeshire

Fordham is a village in Fordham , Cambridgeshire

Fordham in historic gazetteers

Fordham in the Domesday Book