Wormshill

Other current and historical names

Godeselle

Parish/Community: Wormshill
District/Borough: Maidstone
County: Kent
Region: South East

Category: Populated Place
Type: Village

Latitude/Longitude: 51°17'3"N 0°41'41"E
Eastings/Northings: 588030, 157341
OS Grid: TQ880573
Mapcode Local: GBR QSL.GHK
Mapcode Global: VHKJS.0Z6F

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

Wormshill in historic gazetteers

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

Wormshill, par. and vil., Kent - par., 1475 ac., pop. 213; vil., 5 miles S. of Sittingboume; P.O.

Wormshill in the Domesday Book

A village in Eyhorne hundred, in the county of Kent.

- Overlord in 1066: King Edward
- Lord of the Manor in 1066: Edwin
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Bishop Odo of Bayeux
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: Hugh nephew of Herbert son of Ivo (subinfeudated)
- Taxable Value: 1 geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £4 in 1066; £4 in 1070; £4 in 1086
- Households: 5 villagers; 2 slaves
- Plough Teams: 1 lord's plough; 1 ¹⁄₂ men's ploughs (2 plough lands)
- Meadow: 2 acres
- Woodland: 10 swine render
- Churches: 1

British Place Names

Wormshill, Kent

Wormshill is a village in Kent

Wormshill in historic gazetteers

Wormshill in the Domesday Book