Wetherden in the Domesday Book

A village in Stowmarket hundred, in the county of Suffolk.

Three manors recorded in Domesday.

• 1st Manor

  • Overlord in 1066: Abbey of Bury St Edmunds
  • Lord of the Manor in 1066: Free men, twenty
  • Tenant in Chief in 1086: Abbey of Bury St Edmunds
  • Lords of the Manor in 1086: Ralph the fat (subinfeudated); Arnulf the wild (subinfeudated); Abbey of Bury St Edmunds
  • Taxable Value: 2 ¹⁄₈ geld
  • Value to Lord of the Manor: £1 10/- in 1066; £2 in 1086
  • Households: 13 smallholders
  • Plough Teams: 7 men's ploughs
  • Meadow: 9 acres
  • Churches: 0.5

• 2nd Manor

  • Overlord in 1066: Guthmund brother of Abbot Wulfric
  • Lord of the Manor in 1066: Free men, seventeen
  • Tenant in Chief in 1086: Hugh de Montfort
  • Lord of the Manor in 1086: Hugh de Montfort
  • Taxable Value: 2 ¹⁄₈ geld
  • Value to Lord of the Manor: £2 10/- in 1066; £2 10/- in 1070; £2 in 1086
  • Households: 10 smallholders
  • Plough Teams: 5 men's ploughs
  • Meadow: 7 acres
  • Woodland: 4 pigs
  • Churches: 0.5

• 3rd Manor

  • Lord of the Manor in 1066: Free man, one
  • Tenant in Chief in 1086: Walter the deacon
  • Lord of the Manor in 1086: Walter the deacon
  • Taxable Value: 0 geld
  • Value to Lord of the Manor: 1 shillings in 1086