Wittering

Other current and historical names

Whittering
Morte d'Arthur

Built-Up Area: Wittering Airfield
Parish/Community: Wittering
Unitary Authority: Peterborough
Region: Eastern

Category: Populated Place
Type: Village

Latitude/Longitude: 52°36'34"N 0°26'44"W
Eastings/Northings: 505355, 302442
OS Grid: TF053024
Mapcode Local: GBR FWD.86J
Mapcode Global: WHGM4.4N2S

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

Wittering in historic gazetteers

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

Wittering (or Whittering), par., Northamptonshire, 3½ miles SE. of Stamford, 2690 ac., pop. 261.

Wittering in the Domesday Book

A village in Upton hundred, in the county of Northamptonshire.

- Lord of the Manor in 1066: Abbey of Peterborough St Peter
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Abbey of Peterborough
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: Ansketil of St Médard (subinfeudated)
- Taxable Value: 9 geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £3 in 1066; £11 in 1086
- Households: 12 villagers; 7 smallholders; 20 freemen; 5 slaves
- Plough Teams: 3 lord's ploughs; 12 men's ploughs (16 plough lands)
- Woodland: 2 leagues
- Mills: 3, value 19 shillings

British Place Names

Wittering, Peterborough

Wittering is a village in Wittering Airfield, Peterborough

Wittering in historic gazetteers

Wittering in the Domesday Book