Wentworth

Other current and historical names

Winteworde
Wingford

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

Category: Populated Place
Type: Village

Latitude/Longitude: 52°23'5"N 0°10'28"E
Eastings/Northings: 548091, 278540
OS Grid: TL480785
Mapcode Local: GBR M6K.GXX
Mapcode Global: VHHJB.ZB32

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

Wentworth in historic gazetteers

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

Wentworth.-- (or Wingford), par., Cambridgeshire, 4½ miles SW. of Ely, 1437 ac., pop. 143.

Wentworth in the Domesday Book

A village in Ely 2 hundred, in the county of Cambridgeshire.

- Lord of the Manor in 1066: Abbey of Ely St Etheldreda
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Abbey of Ely
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: Abbey of Ely
- Taxable Value: 3 ¹⁄₂ geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £12 in 1066; £10 10/- in 1070; £10 10/- in 1086
- Households: 18 villagers; 17 cottagers; 3 freemen
- Plough Teams: 1 lord's plough; 5 men's ploughs (7 plough lands)
- Meadow: 7 ploughs
- Woodland: 20 pigs

British Place Names

Wentworth, Cambridgeshire

Wentworth is a village in Cambridgeshire

Wentworth in historic gazetteers

Wentworth in the Domesday Book