Wormingford

Other current and historical names

Widemondefort

Parish/Community: Wormingford
District/Borough: Colchester
County: Essex
Region: Eastern

Category: Populated Place
Type: Village

Latitude/Longitude: 51°57'0"N 0°48'33"E
Eastings/Northings: 593158, 231672
OS Grid: TL931316
Mapcode Local: GBR RKY.MFW
Mapcode Global: VHKFQ.Z76Z

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

Wormingford in historic gazetteers

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

Wormingford, par. and vil., Essex - par., 2322 ac., pop. 477; vil., on river Stour, 6 miles NW. of Colchester; P.O.

Wormingford in the Domesday Book

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

- Lord of the Manor in 1066: Godwin of Benfield
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Robert Gernon
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: Ilger (subinfeudated)
- Taxable Value: 4 geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £6 in 1066; £2 in 1070; £8 in 1086
- Households: 4 villagers; 16 smallholders; 19 freemen; 4 slaves
- Plough Teams: 4 lord's ploughs; 4 men's ploughs
- Meadow: 20 acres
- Woodland: 116 pigs
- Mills: 1
- Other resources: 1 fishery
- Animals in 1066: 5 cattle; 40 pigs; 15 goats; 1 cob
- Animals in 1086: 33 cattle; 60 pigs; 47 goats; 6 cobs; 7 beehives

British Place Names

Wormingford, Essex

Wormingford is a village in Essex

Wormingford in historic gazetteers

Wormingford in the Domesday Book