Messing

Other current and historical names

Messlng
Metcinges

Parish/Community: Messing-cum-Inworth
District/Borough: Colchester
County: Essex
Region: Eastern

Category: Populated Place
Type: Village

Latitude/Longitude: 51°50'10"N 0°44'58"E
Eastings/Northings: 589542, 218863
OS Grid: TL895188
Mapcode Local: GBR RM6.Y2Y
Mapcode Global: VHKG8.Y36P

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

Messing in historic gazetteers

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

Messing, par. and vil., Essex, 3½ miles SE. of Coggeshall, 2593 ac., pop. 642; P.O.

Messing in the Domesday Book

A village in Lexden hundred, in the county of Essex.

Two manors recorded in Domesday.

1st Manor
- Lord of the Manor in 1066: Ordmer
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Roger of Rames
- Lords of the Manor in 1086: Ansketil (subinfeudated); Gerald (subinfeudated); Roger of Rames
- Taxable Value: ⁵⁄₈ geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £5 10/- in 1066; £5 10/- in 1070; £5 3/- in 1086
- Households: 3 villagers; 18 smallholders; 3 freemen; 3 slaves
- Plough Teams: 2 lord's ploughs; 3 ¹⁄₂ men's ploughs
- Meadow: 20 acres
- Woodland: 40 pigs
- Mills: 1
- Animals in 1066: 2 cows; 30 pigs; 35 goats; 2 cobs; 2 calves
- Animals in 1086: 2 cows; 20 pigs; 35 goats; 2 cobs; 2 calves
2nd Manor
- Lord of the Manor in 1066: Free woman, one
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Ralph Baynard
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: Bernard (subinfeudated)
- Taxable Value: ¹⁄₂ geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: 10 shillings in 1066; 3 shillings in 1086
- Households: 1 smallholder
- Woodland: 12 pigs

British Place Names

Messing, Essex

Messing is a village in Essex

Messing in historic gazetteers

Messing in the Domesday Book