Impington

Other current and historical names

Epintone
Impetum

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

Category: Populated Place
Type: Village

Latitude/Longitude: 52°14'52"N 0°6'33"E
Eastings/Northings: 544092, 263169
OS Grid: TL440631
Mapcode Local: GBR L6W.4FD
Mapcode Global: VHHJW.VR3M

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

Impington in historic gazetteers

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

Impington, par. and vil., in co. and 2½ miles N. of Cambridge, 1200 ac., pop. 398; in vicinnity is the seat of Impington Park.

Impington in the Domesday Book

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

Two manors recorded in Domesday.

1st Manor
- 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: 6 ¹⁄₂ geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £8 in 1066; £2 in 1070; £2 in 1086
- Households: 1 villager; 8 smallholders; 7 cottagers; 1 slave
- Plough Teams: ¹⁄₂ lord's plough; 2 men's ploughs (6 plough lands)
- Meadow: 2 ploughs
2nd Manor
- Overlord in 1066: Abbey of Ely St Etheldreda
- Lord of the Manor in 1066: Freemen, three
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Picot of Cambridge
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: Walter (subinfeudated)
- Taxable Value: 3 ¹⁄₂ geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £4 in 1066; £2 10/- in 1070; £3 in 1086
- Households: 4 smallholders; 4 cottagers
- Meadow: 1 plough

British Place Names

Impington, Cambridgeshire

Impington is a village in Histon, Cambridgeshire

Impington in historic gazetteers

Impington in the Domesday Book