Sheering

Other current and historical names

Seeringa

Built-Up Area: Sheering
Parish/Community: Sheering
District/Borough: Epping Forest
County: Essex
Region: Eastern

Category: Populated Place
Type: Village

Latitude/Longitude: 51°48'13"N 0°11'4"E
Eastings/Northings: 550717, 213930
OS Grid: TL507139
Mapcode Local: GBR MFJ.ZD5
Mapcode Global: VHHM2.4XXN

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

Sheering in historic gazetteers

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

Sheering, par. and vil., Essex - par., 1645 ac., pop. 543; vil., 2¾ miles NE. of Hanow; P.O.; near the vil. is Sheering Hall, seat.

Sheering in the Domesday Book

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

- Lord of the Manor in 1066: Free men, three
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Peter of Valognes
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: Peter of Valognes
- Taxable Value: 5 ¹⁄₄ geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £5 in 1066; £5 in 1070; £6 in 1086
- Households: 3 villagers; 6 smallholders; 8 slaves
- Plough Teams: 5 lord's ploughs; 1 men's plough
- Meadow: 32 acres
- Woodland: 100 pigs
- Mills: 1
- Animals in 1066: 8 cows; 16 pigs; 1 cob; 8 calves
- Animals in 1086: 56 pigs; 2 cobs; 3 beehives; 1 mule; 1 ass

British Place Names

Sheering, Essex

Sheering is a village in Essex

Sheering in historic gazetteers

Sheering in the Domesday Book