Wix, Essex :: The British Place Names Website

Other current and historical names

Wica
Weeks

Built-Up Area: Wix
Parish/Community: Wix
District/Borough: Tendring
County: Essex
Region: Eastern

Category: Populated Place
Type: Other Settlement

Latitude/Longitude: 51°54'46"N 1°8'47"E
Eastings/Northings: 616500, 228500
OS Grid: TM165285
Mapcode Local: GBR TPM.2MX
Mapcode Global: VHLCK.T5FW

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

Wix in historic gazetteers

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

Wix (or Weeks), par. and vil., Essex - par., 3129 ac., pop. 622; vil., 4½ miles SE. of Manningtree; P.O.

Wix in the Domesday Book

A village in Tendring hundred, in the county of Essex.

Two manors recorded in Domesday.

1st Manor
- Lord of the Manor in 1066: Queen Edith
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Walter the deacon
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: Walter the deacon
- Taxable Value: 4 geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £6 10/- in 1066; £6 10/- in 1070; £10 in 1086
- Households: 14 villagers; 28 smallholders; 3 slaves
- Plough Teams: 4 lord's ploughs; 8 men's ploughs
- Meadow: 8 acres
- Woodland: 100 pigs
- Animals in 1066: 12 cattle; 40 pigs; 30 goats; 2 cobs; 7 beehives
- Animals in 1086: 14 cattle; 71 pigs; 34 goats; 2 cobs; 10 beehives
2nd Manor
- Lord of the Manor in 1066: Queen Edith
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Hugh de Montfort
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: Roger (subinfeudated)
- Taxable Value: 1 geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: 10 shillings in 1086
- Households: 2 villagers; 8 smallholders
- Meadow: 3 acres
- Woodland: 10 pigs

British Place Names

Wix, Essex

Wix is a settlement in Essex

Wix in historic gazetteers

Wix in the Domesday Book