Walkern

Other current and historical names

Wakchra

Built-Up Area: Walkern
Parish/Community: Walkern
District/Borough: East Hertfordshire
County: Hertfordshire
Region: Eastern

Category: Populated Place
Type: Village

Latitude/Longitude: 51°55'1"N 0°7'42"W
Eastings/Northings: 528810, 225924
OS Grid: TL288259
Mapcode Local: GBR J7S.Y19
Mapcode Global: VHGP1.Q2DR

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

Walkern in historic gazetteers

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

Walkern, par. and vil., Herts - par., 2992 ac., pop. 843; vil., 4 miles E. of Stevenage; P.O.

Walkern in the Domesday Book

A village in Broadwater hundred, in the county of Hertfordshire.

- Overlord in 1066: King Edward
- Lord of the Manor in 1066: Alwin Horne
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Deormann of London
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: Deormann of London
- Taxable Value: 10 geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £16 in 1066; £8 in 1070; £10 in 1086
- Households: 14 villagers; 6 smallholders; 8 cottagers; 4 slaves; 1 priest
- Plough Teams: 2 lord's ploughs; 8 men's ploughs (12 plough lands)
- Woodland: 200 pigs

British Place Names

Walkern, Hertfordshire

Walkern is a village in Hertfordshire

Walkern in historic gazetteers

Walkern in the Domesday Book