Horningsea

Other current and historical names

Hornsea
Horningesie

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

Category: Populated Place
Type: Village

Latitude/Longitude: 52°14'29"N 0°11'10"E
Eastings/Northings: 549364, 262633
OS Grid: TL493626
Mapcode Local: GBR M89.KVL
Mapcode Global: VHHJY.5XRG

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

Horningsea in historic gazetteers

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

Horningsea, par. and vil., in co. and 3½ miles NE. of Cambridge, 1580 ac., pop. 409.

Horningsea in the Domesday Book

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

- Lord of the Manor in 1066: Abbey of Ely St Etheldreda
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Abbey of Ely
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: Abbey of Ely
- Taxable Value: 7 geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £14 in 1066; £14 in 1070; £18 in 1086
- Households: 22 villagers; 14 smallholders; 15 slaves
- Plough Teams: 8 ¹⁄₂ lord's ploughs; 9 men's ploughs (17 plough lands)
- Meadow: 17 ploughs
- Mills: 1, value 10 shillings

British Place Names

Horningsea, Cambridgeshire

Horningsea is a village in Cambridgeshire

Horningsea in historic gazetteers

Horningsea in the Domesday Book