Quendon

Other current and historical names

Kuenadana

Built-Up Area: Rickling Green
Parish/Community: Quendon and Rickling
District/Borough: Uttlesford
County: Essex
Region: Eastern

Category: Populated Place
Type: Village

Latitude/Longitude: 51°57'13"N 0°12'9"E
Eastings/Northings: 551457, 230654
OS Grid: TL514306
Mapcode Local: GBR MCT.J1K
Mapcode Global: VHHLH.G5G1

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

Quendon in historic gazetteers

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

Quendon, par. and vil., Essex, 6 miles SW. of Saffron Walden, 657 ac., pop. 192; P.O.; near vil. is Quendon Hall, seat.

Quendon in the Domesday Book

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

- Lord of the Manor in 1066: Aldred
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Eudo the steward
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: Richard of Sackville (subinfeudated)
- Taxable Value: 2 geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £8 in 1066; £6 in 1086
- Households: 3 villagers; 4 smallholders; 3 slaves
- Plough Teams: 2 lord's ploughs; 2 men's ploughs
- Meadow: 6 acres
- Woodland: 40 pigs
- Animals in 1066: 6 cattle; 32 pigs; 2 cobs; 4 beehives
- Animals in 1086: 9 cattle; 50 pigs; 44 goats; 3 cobs; 17 beehives

British Place Names

Quendon, Essex

Quendon is a village in Rickling Green, Essex

Quendon in historic gazetteers

Quendon in the Domesday Book