Melbourn

Other current and historical names

Melbourne
Melborne
Melleborne
Melleburne

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

Category: Populated Place
Type: Village

Latitude/Longitude: 52°4'58"N 0°0'54"E
Eastings/Northings: 538172, 244637
OS Grid: TL381446
Mapcode Local: GBR K7C.BMP
Mapcode Global: VHHKM.6XS4

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

Melbourn in the Domesday Book

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

Five manors recorded in Domesday.

1st Manor
- Overlords in 1066: King Edward; Abbey of Ely St Etheldreda
- Lords of the Manor in 1066: Alfred; Wynstan; Alwin the reeve of the Abbot of Ely; Ordmer; Edric Snipe; Goding Bolt; Alwin Blond; Alric son of Goding; Alsi Bereson; Aelfric Mouse; Alsi Beard
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Guy of Raimbeaucourt
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: Guy of Raimbeaucourt
- Taxable Value: 5 ³⁄₈ geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £14 in 1066; £6 in 1070; £10 10/- in 1086
- Households: 6 villagers; 18 smallholders; 10 cottagers
- Plough Teams: 2 lord's ploughs; 7 men's ploughs (11 plough lands)
- Meadow: 6 ploughs
- Mills: 0.5, value 2/7¼
2nd 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: 2 ¹⁄₄ geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £6 in 1066; £5 in 1070; £5 in 1086
- Households: 6 villagers; 9 smallholders; 3 cottagers
- Plough Teams: 1 ¹⁄₂ lord's ploughs; 3 men's ploughs (5 plough lands)
- Meadow: 5 ploughs
- Mills: 1, value 2/7¼
3rd Manor
- Overlord in 1066: Earl Algar
- Lord of the Manor in 1066: Sired, Earl Algar's man
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Hardwin of Scales
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: Durand (subinfeudated)
- Taxable Value: 1 ¹⁄₄ geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £2 in 1066; £1 10/- in 1070; £1 5/- in 1086
- Households: 1 villager; 2 smallholders; 3 cottagers
- Meadow: 1 plough
4th Manor
- Overlord in 1066: Edeva the fair
- Lord of the Manor in 1066: Kolsveinn
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Count Alan
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: Kolsveinn (subinfeudated)
- Taxable Value: ³⁄₄ geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £2 in 1066; 15 shillings in 1070; £1 in 1086
- Households: 3 smallholders; 1 slave
- Meadow: ¹⁄₂ plough
5th Manor
- Overlord in 1066: Earl Algar
- Lord of the Manor in 1066: Gode mother of Wulfric
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Earl Roger of Shrewsbury
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: Abbey of Saint-Evroult (subinfeudated)
- Taxable Value: ³⁄₈ geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: 5 shillings in 1066; 5 shillings in 1070; 5 shillings in 1086
- Households: 1 villager
- Meadow: ¹⁄₂ plough

British Place Names

Melbourn, Cambridgeshire

Melbourn is a village in Cambridgeshire

Melbourn in historic gazetteers

Melbourn in the Domesday Book