Woolpit

Other current and historical names

Wulpit
Wulpet
Wlfpeta

Built-Up Area: Woolpit
Parish/Community: Woolpit
District/Borough: Mid Suffolk
County: Suffolk
Region: Eastern

Category: Populated Place
Type: Village

Latitude/Longitude: 52°13'28"N 0°53'17"E
Eastings/Northings: 597366, 262422
OS Grid: TL973624
Mapcode Local: GBR SJ2.HCM
Mapcode Global: VHKDF.BBXZ

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

Woolpit in historic gazetteers

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

Woolpit, par. and vil., Suffolk - par., 1877 ac., pop. 1034; vil., 5 miles NW. of Stowmarket; P.O., T.O.

Woolpit in the Domesday Book

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

- Overlord in 1066: Abbey of Bury St Edmunds
- Lords of the Manor in 1066: Free men, fourty; Abbey of Bury St Edmunds
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Abbey of Bury St Edmunds
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: Abbey of Bury St Edmunds
- Taxable Value: 4 ¹⁄₈ geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £3 in 1066; £3 in 1070; £3 10/7¼ in 1086
- Households: 17 villagers; 3 smallholders
- Plough Teams: 9 men's ploughs
- Meadow: 7 acres
- Woodland: 20 pigs
- Churches: 1

British Place Names

Woolpit, Suffolk

Woolpit is a village in Suffolk

Woolpit in historic gazetteers

Woolpit in the Domesday Book