Lackford

Other current and historical names

Leacforda

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

Category: Populated Place
Type: Village

Latitude/Longitude: 52°18'3"N 0°37'38"E
Eastings/Northings: 579241, 270252
OS Grid: TL792702
Mapcode Local: GBR QD3.PDS
Mapcode Global: VHJGF.TFHB

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

Lackford in historic gazetteers

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

Lackford.-- hundred, Suffolk, in NW. of co., 77,159 ac., pop. 15,653; contains 17 pars. and part of another.

Lackford in the Domesday Book

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

- Lord of the Manor in 1066: Abbey of Bury St Edmunds
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Abbey of Bury St Edmunds
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: Abbey of Bury St Edmunds
- Taxable Value: 5 ¹⁄₄ geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £6 in 1066; £8 in 1086
- Households: 14 villagers; 7 smallholders; 1 freeman; 4 slaves
- Plough Teams: 3 lord's ploughs; 4 ¹⁄₄ men's ploughs
- Meadow: 30 acres
- Churches: 1
- Mills: 2
- Animals in 1086: 9 cattle; 13 pigs; 2 cobs

British Place Names

Lackford, Suffolk

Lackford is a village in Suffolk

Lackford in historic gazetteers

Lackford in the Domesday Book