Linton

Other current and historical names

Lintone

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

Category: Populated Place
Type: Village

Latitude/Longitude: 52°5'50"N 0°17'2"E
Eastings/Northings: 556554, 246815
OS Grid: TL565468
Mapcode Local: GBR MB6.DN5
Mapcode Global: VHHKR.WJ1X

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

Linton in historic gazetteers

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

Linton.-- par. and vil. with ry. sta., Cambridgeshire, in SE. of co., on river Granta, 10½ miles SE. of Cambridge, 3775 ac., pop. 1753; P.O., T.O.

Linton in the Domesday Book

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

- Overlord in 1066: Alsi Sqitrebil
- Lords of the Manor in 1066: Edeva the fair; Freeman, one
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Count Alan
- Lords of the Manor in 1086: 1 Freeman (subinfeudated); Count Alan
- Taxable Value: 4 geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £15 in 1066; £15 in 1070; £12 in 1086
- Households: 16 villagers; 5 smallholders; 6 slaves
- Plough Teams: 3 lord's ploughs; 5 men's ploughs (8 plough lands)
- Meadow: 2 ploughs
- Woodland: 30 pigs
- Mills: 2, value 16 shillings

British Place Names

Linton, Cambridgeshire

Linton is a village in Cambridgeshire

Linton in historic gazetteers

Linton in the Domesday Book