Sewstern

Other current and historical names

Anatomy of Melancholy

Parish/Community: Buckminster
District/Borough: Melton
County: Leicestershire
Region: East Midlands

Category: Populated Place
Type: Village

Latitude/Longitude: 52°47'10"N 0°41'2"W
Eastings/Northings: 488858, 321764
OS Grid: SK888217
Mapcode Local: GBR DRM.7X3
Mapcode Global: WHGL7.G7KC

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

Sewstern in historic gazetteers

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

Sewstern, township, Buckminster par., Leicestershire, 5 miles NE. of Saxby ry. sta., pop. 201.

Sewstern in the Domesday Book

A village in Framland hundred, in the county of Leicestershire.

- Tenant in Chief in 1086: William Lovet
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: William Lovet
- Taxable Value: 5 geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: 3 shillings in 1070; 10 shillings in 1086
- Households: 6 villagers; 1 freeman
- Plough Teams: 1 lord's plough; 1 ¹⁄₂ men's ploughs (5 plough lands)

British Place Names

Sewstern, Leicestershire

Sewstern is a village in Leicestershire

Sewstern in historic gazetteers

Sewstern in the Domesday Book