Leightonstone
Leightonstone is one of the hundreds of Huntingdonshire mentioned in the Domesday Book.[1] It takes its name from the stone[2] at Leighton Bromswold where the hundred's moot was held.[3] In modern times its name was also used for an ecclesiastical administrative area within the Diocese of Ely. [4]
The Hundred of Leightonstone comprises the ancient parishes of:
- Alconbury
- Alconbury Weston
- Barham
- Brampton
- Brington
- Buckworth
- Bythorn
- Catworth
- Coppingford
- Covington
- Easton
- Ellington
- Grafham
- Great Gidding
- Hamerton
- Keyston
- Kimbolton
- Leighton Bromswold
- Little Gidding
- Luddington (part)*
- Molesworth
- Old Weston
- Spaldwick
- Steeple Gidding
- Stow Longa
- Swineshead†
- Thurning (part)*
- Upton
- Winwick (part)*
- Woolley
*: partly in Northamptonshire.
†: detached in Bedfordshire.
In two cases in the Domesday Book (in the lands of Eustace the Sheriff, and in those of the Countess Judith), the lands of this hundred are given as in Kimbolton Hundred. It is possible that this may have been an alternative name, but it is more probably due to a mistake of the Domesday scribe.[5]
References
- ↑ Domesday Book Map
- ↑ Geograph
- ↑ 'The hundred of Leightonstone', A History of the County of Huntingdon: Volume 3 (1936), pp. 1-3. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=66132 Date accessed: 19 October 2011
- ↑ Crockford’s on-line accessed: 19 October 2011
- ↑ 'The hundred of Leightonstone', A History of the County of Huntingdon: Volume 3 (1936), pp. 1–3. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=66132
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