Snailwell

Other current and historical names

Snaile Well
Snaybell
Snellewelle

Parish/Community: Snailwell
District/Borough: East Cambridgeshire
County: Cambridgeshire
Region: Eastern

Category: Populated Place
Type: Village

Latitude/Longitude: 52°16'50"N 0°24'33"E
Eastings/Northings: 564452, 267465
OS Grid: TL644674
Mapcode Local: GBR N9C.VPV
Mapcode Global: VHJGB.1XQZ

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

Snailwell in historic gazetteers

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

Snailwell, par., Cambridgeshire, 2½ miles N. of Newmarket, 2014 ac., pop. 186.

Snailwell in the Domesday Book

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

- Overlord in 1066: Abbey of Ely St Etheldreda
- Lord of the Manor in 1066: Freemen, six
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Hugh of Port
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: Hugh of Port
- Taxable Value: 5 geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £15 in 1066; £12 in 1070; £14 in 1086
- Households: 8 villagers; 3 smallholders; 6 freemen; 3 slaves
- Plough Teams: 2 lord's ploughs; 8 men's ploughs (10 plough lands)
- Meadow: 2 ploughs
- Mills: 4, value 14/2½

British Place Names

Snailwell, Cambridgeshire

Snailwell is a village in Cambridgeshire

Snailwell in historic gazetteers

Snailwell in the Domesday Book