Hepworth

Other current and historical names

Hepworda

Built-Up Area: Hepworth
Parish/Community: Hepworth
District/Borough: St. Edmundsbury
County: Suffolk
Region: Eastern

Category: Populated Place
Type: Village

Latitude/Longitude: 52°20'8"N 0°54'44"E
Eastings/Northings: 598525, 274836
OS Grid: TL985748
Mapcode Local: GBR SGR.HJ6
Mapcode Global: VHKCV.RKR9

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

Hepworth in historic gazetteers

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

Hepworth.-- par. and vil., W. Suffolk, 9 miles NW. of Eye, 1677 ac., pop. 527; P.O.

Hepworth in the Domesday Book

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

Two manors recorded in Domesday.

1st Manor
- Overlord in 1066: Abbey of Bury St Edmunds
- Lord of the Manor in 1066: Free men, twenty
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Abbey of Bury St Edmunds
- Lords of the Manor in 1086: Fulcher de Mayneris (subinfeudated); Peter of Valognes (subinfeudated); Abbey of Bury St Edmunds
- Taxable Value: 2 ⁵⁄₈ geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £1 in 1066; £2 in 1086
- Households: 3 villagers; 3 smallholders; 4 slaves
- Plough Teams: 8 men's ploughs
- Meadow: 4 acres
- Woodland: 6 pigs
- Churches: 1
2nd Manor
- Lord of the Manor in 1066: Free man, one half
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Robert Blunt
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: Robert Blunt
- Taxable Value: ³⁄₈ geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: 10 shillings in 1086
- Households: 1 smallholder
- Plough Teams: ¹⁄₂ men's plough

British Place Names

Hepworth, Suffolk

Hepworth is a village in Suffolk

Hepworth in historic gazetteers

Hepworth in the Domesday Book