Somerley

Other current and historical names

Summerlege

Built-Up Area: Birdham
Parish/Community: Earnley
District/Borough: Chichester
County: West Sussex
Region: South East

Category: Populated Place
Type: Village

Latitude/Longitude: 50°46'42"N 0°50'36"W
Eastings/Northings: 481632, 98302
OS Grid: SZ816983
Mapcode Local: GBR CG4.3K1
Mapcode Global: FRA 9731.55Y

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

Somerley in the Domesday Book

A village in Wittering hundred, in the county of Sussex.

- Overlord in 1066: King Edward
- Lord of the Manor in 1066: Helghi of Worth
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Earl Roger of Shrewsbury
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: Reginald the sheriff (subinfeudated)
- Taxable Value: 1 geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £1 in 1066; 15 shillings in 1070; £1 in 1086
- Households: 2 villagers; 3 smallholders; 1 slave
- Plough Teams: 1 lord's plough; 1 men's plough (1 plough land)

British Place Names

Somerley, West Sussex

Somerley is a village in Birdham, West Sussex

Somerley in the Domesday Book