Wordwell

Other current and historical names

Wridewella

Parish/Community: Wordwell
District/Borough: St Edmundsbury
County: Suffolk
Region: Eastern

Category: Populated Place
Type: Hamlet

Latitude/Longitude: 52°18'56"N 0°40'51"E
Eastings/Northings: 582845, 271997
OS Grid: TL828719
Mapcode Local: GBR QCZ.YTY
Mapcode Global: VHJGG.R2D6

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

Wordwell in historic gazetteers

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

Wordwell, par., Suffolk, 5 miles NW. of Bury St Edmunds, 2299 ac., pop. 44.

Wordwell in the Domesday Book

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

- Overlord in 1066: Abbey of Bury St Edmunds
- Lord of the Manor in 1066: Free men, eleven
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Abbey of Bury St Edmunds
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: Abbey of Bury St Edmunds
- Taxable Value: 2 geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £1 10/- in 1066; £1 10/- in 1070; £1 10/- in 1086
- Households: 4 smallholders; 2 slaves
- Plough Teams: 5 men's ploughs
- Meadow: 3 acres
- Churches: 1
- Mills: 1

British Place Names

Wordwell, Suffolk

Wordwell is a hamlet in Suffolk

Wordwell in historic gazetteers

Wordwell in the Domesday Book