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Oure
Church End

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

Category: Populated Place
Type: Village

Latitude/Longitude: 52°19'4"N 0°0'48"E
Eastings/Northings: 537332, 270764
OS Grid: TL373707
Mapcode Local: GBR K4G.Q5Y
Mapcode Global: VHHJN.50XH

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

Over in the Domesday Book

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

Five manors recorded in Domesday.

1st Manor
- Lord of the Manor in 1066: Abbey of Ramsey St Benedict
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Abbey of Ramsey
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: Abbey of Ramsey
- Taxable Value: 10 ³⁄₄ geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £10 in 1066; £6 in 1070; £8 in 1086
- Households: 14 villagers; 2 smallholders; 3 cottagers; 2 slaves
- Plough Teams: 1 lord's plough; 6 men's ploughs (10 ¹⁄₂ plough lands)
- Meadow: 10 ¹⁄₂ ploughs
2nd Manor
- Overlords in 1066: Abbey of Ramsey St Benedict; Abbey of Ely St Etheldreda
- Lords of the Manor in 1066: Freemen, seven; Freemen, two; Stanhard son of Alwy
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Hardwin of Scales
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: Ralph of Feugères (subinfeudated)
- Taxable Value: 2 ¹⁄₄ geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £2 10/- in 1066; £1 10/- in 1070; £1 10/- in 1086
- Households: 3 villagers; 1 smallholder; 3 cottagers
- Meadow: 2 ¹⁄₂ ploughs
3rd Manor
- Lord of the Manor in 1066: Abbey of Chatteris St Mary
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Abbey of Chatteris
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: Abbey of Chatteris
- Taxable Value: 1 geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: 16 shillings in 1066; 16 shillings in 1086
- Households: 4 villagers
- Meadow: 1 plough
4th Manor
- Overlord in 1066: Abbey of Ramsey St Benedict
- Lord of the Manor in 1066: Man, one
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Picot of Cambridge
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: Saewin (subinfeudated)
- Taxable Value: ¹⁄₂ geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: 10 shillings in 1066; 5 shillings in 1070; 5 shillings in 1086
- Meadow: ¹⁄₂ plough
5th Manor
- Overlord in 1066: Earl Waltheof
- Lord of the Manor in 1066: Godwin the noble
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Countess Judith
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: Roger (subinfeudated)
- Taxable Value: ¹⁄₂ geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £1 in 1066; £1 in 1070; £1 in 1086
- Households: 3 cottagers
- Meadow: ¹⁄₂ plough

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Over, Cambridgeshire

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