Lidgate

Other current and historical names

Ludgate
Lydgate
Litgata

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

Category: Populated Place
Type: Village

Latitude/Longitude: 52°11'30"N 0°31'3"E
Eastings/Northings: 572182, 257818
OS Grid: TL721578
Mapcode Local: GBR PCZ.KNQ
Mapcode Global: VHJGY.X5GP

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

Lidgate in historic gazetteers

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

Lidgate, par. and vil., Suffolk, 6½ miles SE. of New-market, 1780 ac., pop. 417; P.O.

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

Lydgate, Suffolk. See LIDGATE.

Lidgate in the Domesday Book

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

Two manors recorded in Domesday.

1st Manor
- Lord of the Manor in 1066: Stori of Lidgate
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: William of Vatteville
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: William of Vatteville
- Taxable Value: 4 ¹⁄₂ geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £4 in 1066; £4 in 1086
- Households: 9 villagers; 12 smallholders; 1 slave
- Plough Teams: 2 lord's ploughs; 2 men's ploughs
- Meadow: 10 acres
- Woodland: 15 pigs
- Animals in 1066: 1 cob
- Animals in 1086: 5 cattle; 25 pigs; 13 goats; 1 cob
2nd Manor
- Lord of the Manor in 1066: Free men, three
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Reginald the Breton
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: Reginald the Breton
- Taxable Value: 4 geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £4 in 1066; £3 in 1086
- Households: 3 villagers; 6 smallholders
- Plough Teams: 1 lord's plough; 2 men's ploughs
- Meadow: 10 acres
- Woodland: 10 pigs
- Animals in 1066: 2 pigs
- Animals in 1086: 30 pigs

British Place Names

Lidgate, Suffolk

Lidgate is a village in Suffolk

Lidgate in historic gazetteers

Lidgate in the Domesday Book