Landbeach

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

Category: Populated Place
Type: Village

Latitude/Longitude: 52°15'47"N 0°9'45"E
Eastings/Northings: 547694, 264991
OS Grid: TL476649
Mapcode Local: GBR L6R.5XY
Mapcode Global: VHHJX.RCWS

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

Landbeach in historic gazetteers

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

Landbeach, par. and vil., in co. and 5 miles NE of Cambridge, 2490 ac., pop. 510; P.O.

Landbeach in the Domesday Book

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

Two manors recorded in Domesday.

1st Manor
- Overlord in 1066: Edeva the fair
- Lords of the Manor in 1066: Edeva the fair; Freeman, one
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Count Alan
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: Walter (subinfeudated)
- Taxable Value: 4 ³⁄₈ geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £3 in 1066; £6 in 1070; £6 10/- in 1086
- Households: 3 villagers; 13 smallholders; 17 cottagers
- Plough Teams: 1 lord's plough; 3 men's ploughs (4 plough lands)
- Meadow: 6 ploughs
2nd Manor
- Overlord in 1066: King Edward
- Lords of the Manor in 1066: Freemen, four; Blaecwin the sheriff
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Picot of Cambridge
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: Osmund (subinfeudated)
- Taxable Value: 1 ⁵⁄₈ geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £1 10/- in 1066; £1 10/- in 1070; £1 in 1086
- Households: 8 smallholders; 6 cottagers
- Plough Teams: 1 lord's plough (1 ¹⁄₂ plough lands)
- Meadow: 1 ¹⁄₂ ploughs

British Place Names

Landbeach, Cambridgeshire

Landbeach is a village in Cambridgeshire

Landbeach in historic gazetteers

Landbeach in the Domesday Book