Caldecote, Huntingdonshire
| Caldecote | |
| Huntingdonshire | |
|---|---|
 Church of St Mary Magdalene, now a private house | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TL143883 |
| Location: | 52°28’51"N, 0°19’4"W |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Peterborough |
| Postcode: | PE7 |
| Dialling code: | 01733 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Huntingdonshire |
Caldecote is a village and ancient parish in the Norman Cross Hundred of Huntingdonshire, approximately seven miles south-west of Peterborough. Caldecote forms part of the civil parish of Denton and Caldecote. The population is now included in the civil parish of Stilton.
The former Parish Church of St Mary Magdalene, a Grade-II* listed building, is now a private dwelling.
History
William the Conqueror ordered that a survey should be carried out across his kingdom to discover who owned which parts and what it was worth. The survey took place in 1086 and the results were recorded in what, since the 12th century, has become known as the Domesday Book. Starting with the king himself, for each landholder within a county there is a list of their estates or manors; and, for each manor, there is a summary of the resources of the manor, the amount of annual rent that was collected by the lord of the manor both in 1066 and in 1086, together with the taxable value.[1]
In 1086 there were two manors at Caldecote; the annual rent paid to the lords of the manors in 1066 had been £4 and the rent had increased to £5 in 1086.[2] The Domesday Book does not explicitly detail the population of a place but it records that there was 12 households at Caldecote.[2] There is no consensus about the average size of a household at that time; estimates range from 3½ to 5 people per household.[3] Using these figures, an estimate of the population of Caldecote in 1086 is in the range of 42 and 60 people. There was no church mentioned at Caldecote.
References
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- ↑ Dr Ann Williams, Professor G.H. Martin, ed (1992). Domesday Book: A Complete Translation. London: Penguin Books. pp. 551–561. ISBN 0-141-00523-8.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Professor J.J.N. Palmer, University of Hull. "Open Domesday: Place – Caldecote". Anna Powell-Smith. http://opendomesday.org/place/TL1488/caldecote. Retrieved 25 February 2016.
- ↑ Goose, Nigel; Hinde, Andrew. "Estimating Local Population Sizes". http://www.localpopulationstudies.org.uk/PDF/Sources_and_methods/Sources-and-methodsLPS78.pdf. Retrieved 23 February 2016.
