Upwood

Other current and historical names

Upehude

Built-Up Area: Upwood
Parish/Community: Upwood and the Raveleys
District/Borough: Huntingdonshire
County: Cambridgeshire
Region: Eastern

Category: Populated Place
Type: Village

Latitude/Longitude: 52°25'36"N 0°9'4"W
Eastings/Northings: 525796, 282598
OS Grid: TL257825
Mapcode Local: GBR J1K.Y9B
Mapcode Global: VHGLJ.B8BC

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

Upwood in historic gazetteers

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

Upwood, par. and seat, Huntingdonshire, 2½ miles SW. of Ramsey, 1809 ac., pop. 339.

Upwood in the Domesday Book

A village in Hurstingstone hundred, in the county of Huntingdonshire.

- Lord of the Manor in 1066: Abbey of Ramsey St Benedict
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Abbey of Ramsey
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: Abbey of Ramsey
- Taxable Value: 10 geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £10 in 1066; £9 in 1086
- Households: 32 villagers; 2 smallholders; 1 priest
- Plough Teams: 2 lord's ploughs; 14 men's ploughs (16 plough lands)
- Meadow: 6 acres
- Woodland: 1 ¹⁄₂ leagues
- Churches: 1

British Place Names

Upwood, Cambridgeshire

Upwood is a village in Cambridgeshire

Upwood in historic gazetteers

Upwood in the Domesday Book