Sonning

Other current and historical names

Sunning
Soninges

Built-Up Area: Woodley
Parish/Community: Sonning
Unitary Authority: Hart
Region: South East

Category: Populated Place
Type: Village

Latitude/Longitude: 51°28'25"N 0°54'40"W
Eastings/Northings: 475709, 175531
OS Grid: SU757755
Mapcode Local: GBR C5J.JDZ
Mapcode Global: VHDWV.5723

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

Sonning in historic gazetteers

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

Sonning, township and vil., Berks, and par., partly in Oxfordshire - par. (containing Barley), 9813 ac., pop. 6932; township (Sonning Town), pop. 494; vil., on river Thames, 3 miles NE. of Reading; P.O., T.O.

Sonning in the Domesday Book

A village in Charldon hundred, in the county of Berkshire.

- Lord of the Manor in 1066: Bishop of Salisbury St Mary
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Bishop of Salisbury
- Lords of the Manor in 1086: Bishop of Salisbury; Roger the priest (subinfeudated)
- Taxable Value: 60 geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £50 in 1066; £40 in 1070; £40 in 1086
- Households: 40 villagers; 16 smallholders; 10 slaves
- Plough Teams: 5 lord's ploughs; 41 men's ploughs (46 plough lands)
- Meadow: 40 acres
- Woodland: 300 swine render
- Churches: 1
- Mills: 2, value 12/4¾
- Other resources: 5 fisheries

British Place Names

Sonning, Hart

Sonning is a village in Woodley, Hart

Sonning in historic gazetteers

Sonning in the Domesday Book