Postwick

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Built-Up Area: Postwick
Parish/Community: Postwick with Witton
District/Borough: Broadland
County: Norfolk
Region: Eastern

Category: Populated Place
Type: Village

Latitude/Longitude: 52°37'14"N 1°23'27"E
Eastings/Northings: 629629, 307930
OS Grid: TG296079
Mapcode Local: GBR WHW.QGW
Mapcode Global: WHMTP.BDMB

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

Postwick in historic gazetteers

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

Postwick, par. and vil., Norfolk - par., 1426 ac., pop. 297; vil., 4 miles E. of Norwich; P.O.; near the vil. is Postwick Hall, seat.

Postwick in the Domesday Book

A village in Blofield hundred, in the county of Norfolk.

Two manors recorded in Domesday.

1st Manor
- Lords of the Manor in 1066: Skuli; Rathi of Gimingham; Skalpi the Guard
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Eudo the steward
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: Eudo the steward
- Taxable Value: 4 ¹⁄₂ geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £3 15/- in 1066; £6 in 1070; £8 1/12 in 1086
- Households: 11 villagers; 17 smallholders; 2 freemen; 3 slaves
- Plough Teams: 3 lord's ploughs; 4 ⁵⁄₈ men's ploughs
- Meadow: 36 acres
- Woodland: 75 pigs
- Churches: 1
- Mills: 1
- Animals in 1066: 15 cattle; 43 pigs; 3 cobs
- Animals in 1086: 15 cattle; 19 pigs; 3 cobs
2nd Manor
- Overlord in 1066: Skuli
- Lord of the Manor in 1066: Free men, two
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Eudo the steward
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: Eudo the steward
- Taxable Value: ¹⁄₂ geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: 5 shillings in 1066; 2 shillings in 1086
- Plough Teams: 1 men's plough
- Meadow: 8 acres

British Place Names

Postwick, Norfolk

Postwick is a village in Norfolk

Postwick in historic gazetteers

Postwick in the Domesday Book