Witchford

Other current and historical names

Wiceford
Wiceforde

Built-Up Area: Witchford
Parish/Community: Witchford
District/Borough: East Cambridgeshire
County: Cambridgeshire
Region: Eastern

Category: Populated Place
Type: Village

Latitude/Longitude: 52°23'12"N 0°12'6"E
Eastings/Northings: 549947, 278804
OS Grid: TL499788
Mapcode Local: GBR M6L.9W5
Mapcode Global: VHHJC.G82P

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

Witchford in historic gazetteers

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

Witchford.-- hundred, Cambridgeshire, in the liberty of the Isle of Ely, containing 12 pars.; is divided into 2 parts - North Part, 86,275 ac., pop. 21,929; South Part, 37,462 ac., pop. 6995.

Witchford 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 geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £12 in 1066; £8 in 1070; £10 in 1086
- Households: 17 villagers; 7 cottagers; 5 freemen; 8 slaves
- Plough Teams: 2 lord's ploughs; 4 men's ploughs (7 plough lands)
- Meadow: 7 ploughs

British Place Names

Witchford, Cambridgeshire

Witchford is a village in Cambridgeshire

Witchford in historic gazetteers

Witchford in the Domesday Book