Holywell

Other current and historical names

Haleiwelle
Holywell Cum Needingworth

Built-Up Area: Holywell
Parish/Community: Holywell-cum-Needingworth
District/Borough: Huntingdonshire
County: Cambridgeshire
Region: Eastern

Category: Populated Place
Type: Village

Latitude/Longitude: 52°19'9"N 0°2'13"W
Eastings/Northings: 533886, 270844
OS Grid: TL338708
Mapcode Local: GBR K4D.HG4
Mapcode Global: VHGLZ.9YQT

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

Holywell in historic gazetteers

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

Holywell cum Needingworth, par., Huntingdonshire, 1½ mile SE. of St Ives, 3290 ac., pop. 726.

Holywell in the Domesday Book

A village in Hurstingstone hundred, in the county of Huntingdonshire.

- Lord of the Manor in 1066: Abbey of Ramsey St Benedict
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Abbey of Ramsey
- Lords of the Manor in 1086: Abbey of Ramsey; Alwold (subinfeudated)
- Taxable Value: 9 geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £8 in 1066; £8 10/- in 1086
- Households: 26 villagers; 6 smallholders; 1 priest
- Plough Teams: 3 lord's ploughs; 6 men's ploughs (9 plough lands)
- Meadow: 30 acres
- Woodland: 1 mixed measure
- Churches: 1

British Place Names

Holywell, Cambridgeshire

Holywell is a village in Holywell , Cambridgeshire

Holywell in historic gazetteers

Holywell in the Domesday Book