Oake, Somerset :: The British Place Names Website

Other current and historical names

Ache
Acha
Acca
Oake Green

Parish/Community: Oake
District/Borough: Taunton Deane
County: Somerset
Region: South West

Category: Populated Place
Type: Village

Latitude/Longitude: 51°1'21"N 3°12'30"W
Eastings/Northings: 315348, 125489
OS Grid: ST153254
Mapcode Local: GBR LW.HYVC
Mapcode Global: FRA 465D.V7C

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

Oake in historic gazetteers

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

Oake, par., Somerset, on river Tone, 4 miles NE. of Wellington, 865 ac., pop. 108.

Oake in the Domesday Book

A village in Taunton hundred, in the county of Somerset.

- Lord of the Manor in 1066: Dunn
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Roger of Courseulles
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: Geoffrey of Vautortes (subinfeudated)
- Taxable Value: 3 ¹⁄₂ geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £2 10/- in 1070; £4 in 1086
- Households: 14 villagers; 14 smallholders; 4 slaves
- Plough Teams: 2 lord's ploughs; 3 ¹⁄₂ men's ploughs (6 plough lands)
- Meadow: 17 acres
- Woodland: 10 acres
- Pasture: 15 acres
- Mills: 1, value 4 shillings
- Animals in 1086: 14 pigs

British Place Names

Oake, Somerset

Oake is a village in Somerset

Oake in historic gazetteers

Oake in the Domesday Book