Fowlmere

Other current and historical names

Foulmire
Fulmer
Foul Mire
Fugelesmara
Fuglemære

Built-Up Area: Fowlmere
Parish/Community: Fowlmere
District/Borough: South Cambridgeshire
County: Cambridgeshire
Region: Eastern

Category: Populated Place
Type: Village

Latitude/Longitude: 52°5'33"N 0°4'19"E
Eastings/Northings: 542058, 245832
OS Grid: TL420458
Mapcode Local: GBR L8L.M38
Mapcode Global: VHHKN.6NJP

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

Fowlmere in historic gazetteers

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

Foulmire, par. and vil., on S. border of Cambridgeshire, 5½ miles NE. of Royston, 2212 ac., pop. 542; P.O. 1 mile E. of vil. is the seat of Foulmire Hall.

Fowlmere in the Domesday Book

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

Two manors recorded in Domesday.

1st Manor
- Overlord in 1066: King Edward
- Lord of the Manor in 1066: Aelfric Kemp
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Robert Gernon
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: Robert Gernon
- Taxable Value: 10 geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £12 in 1066; £12 in 1070; £12 in 1086
- Households: 22 villagers; 10 smallholders; 4 slaves
- Plough Teams: 2 ¹⁄₂ lord's ploughs; 8 ¹⁄₂ men's ploughs (11 plough lands)
- Meadow: 11 ploughs
- Mills: 1, value 10/7¼
2nd Manor
- Lord of the Manor in 1066: Edeva the fair
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Count Alan
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: 2 men-at-arms (subinfeudated)
- Taxable Value: 1 geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £1 5/- in 1066; £1 in 1070; £1 in 1086
- Meadow: 1 plough

British Place Names

Fowlmere, Cambridgeshire

Fowlmere is a village in Cambridgeshire

Fowlmere in historic gazetteers

Fowlmere in the Domesday Book