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Gloucestershire Q-Z and Welsh entries

Quenington
Quenintone: Roger de Lacy. 2 mills.
2 former mills at each end. The gatehouse of Quenington Court belonged to the Knights Hospitallers.

Redmarley d'Abitot
Ridmerlege: Urso from Bishop of Worcester and William from him.
Many Tudor cottages. Site of a Civil War battle, won by the Roundheads.
Redwick
Reduuiche: Bishop of Worcester.

Rendcomb
Rindecome / cumbe: Walter from Gilbert FitzTurold. Mill.
Mansion built in 1863 is now a school.
Rockhampton
Rochemtune: Osbern Giffard. Salthouse.

Rodmarton
Redmertone: Hugh Maminot from the Gilbert, Bishop of Lisieux; Osward.
Large manor, 1900; remains of a Roman villa, found in 1636.
Roel
Rawelle: St. Evroul's Church.
2 farms.
Ruardean
Ruuirdin: Solomon from William FitzBaderon.

Ruddle
Rodele: Walter Balistarius.

Rudford
Rudeford: Madog, the pre-Conquest holder, from the king. Mill.
A 20ft high obelisk was erected in the 19th century to mark where Welsh soldiers fell in the Civil War in 1643.
Rye
Trinleie:
Lost.

Saintbury
Suineberie: Hascoit Musard. Mill.
Part Saxon church.
Salperton
Salpretune: Hugh de Lasne.
Manor house and park.
Sandhurst
Sanher: King's land.
Scattered; timber-framed cottages; originally Saxon church.
Sapperton
Sapletorne: Robert de Tosny. Mill.
Partly 14th century Daneway House.
Sevenhampton
Sevenhamtone: Durand from Bishop of Hereford.
Jacobean manor house.
Sezincote
Cheisnecot(e) / Chi(i)esnecote: Walter from Durand the Sheriff; Walter the Deacon; Urso of Worcester; Hascoit Musard; Humphrey Maidenhall.
Sezincote House is in the Indian style (1803-5).
Sharpness
Nesse: King's land (claimed by Roger).
Small town with docks, on the River Severn and Gloucester to Berkeley Canal.
Sherborne
Scireburne: Winchcombe Abbey. 4 mills.
Birthplace of Astronomer-Royal James Bradley (1693-1762); 16th century house, deer park.
Sheriff's Haresfield
Durand the Sheriff.
Part of Haresfield.
Shipton Chamflurs
Sciptune:
Lost.
Shipton Dowel
Sciptone: Hugh from William d'Eu.
Shipton Wood.
Shipton Moyne
Scip(e)tone: Matthew de Mortagne from the king; Rumbald from Matthew. 2 mills.
An inn called the Cat and Custard Pot.
Shipton Oliffe
Scip(e)tune: Geoffrey from William Leofric; Ansfrid de Cormeilles. Mill.
Adjacent to Shipton Solers.
Shipton Solers
Scip(e)tune: Gundulf from Archbishop of York.
Adjacent to Shipton Oliffe; Celtic cross in the churchyard.
Shorncote
Shernecote: Humphrey the Chamberlain.
Area near Cirencester.
Siddington
Sudintone / Suintone: Roger de Lacy with his mother holds it as her dowry; Hascoit Musard; Ansketel from Humphrey the Chamberlain. 2 mills.

Siddington House
Suditone: William FitzBaderon.
Siddington House. An inscribed stone from a Roman tomb, found in the 18th century, is in its grounds.
Siston
Sistone: Roger de Berkeley, formerly Anna.
Elizabethan manor, Siston Court.
Slimbridge
Heslinbruge: Roger from the king.
The old parsonage garden, with a moat, is the site of the old manor house. New Grounds by the river belongs to the Severn Wildfowl Trust.
Snowshill
Snawesville: Winchcombe Abbey.
Bronze Age and Stone Age finds; 16th century manor house, with a fine collection of musical instruments.
Somerford Keynes
Summreford: Gilbert, Bishop of Lisieux. Mill.

Southam
Surham: Durand the Sheriff from Bishop of Worcester.
Much new housing; large Tudor manor, Southam de la Bere.
South Cerney
Cernei: Walter FitzRoger; Roger from Ralph de Tosny. 3 mills.
Gravel pits; Cotswold Water Park; street called Bow-wow.
Southwick
Sudwicham: King's land.
Southwick Park, Southwick Farm.
Standish
Stanedis: Archbishop of York and Abbot of Gloucester, Durand the Sheriff and Earl Hugh (wrongfully) from him. � fishery.
Chest hospital in the grounds of former Standish House.
Stanley Pontlarge
Stanlege: Tewkesbury Church from the king.
Two Tudor farmhouse.
Stanton
Stantone: Winchcombe Abbey.
Perfectly preserved Cotswold village; Tudor cottages.
Stanway
Stanwege: Tewkesbury Church from the king. Monastery, salthouse in Droitwich.
Aristocratic twin of Stanton; Cotswold cottages, barns. Tudor Stanway House has a Jacobean gatehouse.
Staunton
Stantun: King's land.
Two giant stones, Suckstone and Buckstone.
Staverton
Staruenton: St. Denis's Church, Paris.
Manor house.
Stears
Staure: William FitzBaderon.
House near Newnham.
Stoke Bishop
Stoche: Bishop of Worcester.
Suburb of Bristol.
Stoke Gifford
Estoch / Stoche: Osbern Giffard.
Stoke Park, a great 16th century mansion, is now a hospital.
Stoke Orchard
Stoches: Bernard and Reginald who refuse to do service to Bishop of Worcester.
Timbered houses.
Stonehouse
Stanhus: William d'Eu. 2 mills, vines.
Small industrial town with 19th century mills; Tudor Stonehouse Court; Wycliffe College, 1882.
Stowell
Stanuuelle: Archbishop of York. Mill.
Some houses.
Stratton
Stratune: Roger de Lacy. 2 mills.
Small town near Cirencester; mill on the River Churn.
Sudeley
Sudlege: Harold FitzRalph. 6 mills.
Sudeley Castle, once the property of Richard III, was bought and restored by the Dent family in 1837.
Swindon
Suindone: Archbishop of York from St. Oswald's Church.
Now a suburb of Cheltenham; new housing estates.
Syde
Side: Thurstan from Ansfrid de Cormeilles.

Symonds Hall
Simondeshale: King's land.
Now Symonds Hall Farm.

Taddington
Tatintone: Tewkesbury Church.

Tarlton
Torentone / Torentune: Herbert from William d'Eu; Ralph from Ralph Pagnell.

Taynton
Tatinton / Tetinton: William Goizenboded.
Scattered. Taynton House has a 1695 barn, cider mill and oxhouse. Taynton stone was used to build Blenheim Palace.
Teddington
Teotintone: Bishop of Worcester.

Temple Guiting
Getinge: Roger de Lacy; Gerwy de Loges' wife. 3 mills, salthouse.
Land here was given to the Knights Templar by Gilbert de Lacy, a descendant of Roger de Lacy. The Tudor house was the summer house of the Bishops of Oxford.
Tetbury Upton
Uptone: Roger d'Ivry.
18th century house, The Grove, in a park.
Tewkesbury
Tedechesberie / Teodechesberie / -kesberie: King's land. 2 mills, salthouse, fishery, market.
Town with a great Norman abbey church, 13th century King John's Bridge, an old mill and many fine buildings made famous in Mrs Craik's John Halifax Gentleman. The Battle of Tewkesbury was fought in 1471, during the Wars of the Roses.
Thornbury
Turneberie: King's land.
Small town. Thornbury Castle was built by the Duke of Buckingham, who was executed in 1521.
Througham
Troham: Earl Hugh.

Tibberton
Tebriston: William FitzBaderon.
Tibberton Court.
Tidenham
Tede(n)ham: King's land. Mill, William d'Eu; Roger de Lacy, fisheries.
Scattered.
Tockington
Tochintune: King's land. Mill.

Toddington
Todintun: Harold FitzRalph. 2 mills, salthouse.
Gothic revival house, now a college.
Todenham
Teodeham / Toteham: Westminster Abbey.

Tormarton
Tormentone: Richard the Commissioner.
Georgian houses.
Tortworth
Torteword: Thurstan FitzRolf. 3 mills.
19th century mansion; church; ancient chestnut tree.
Tredington
Trotintune: King's land.

Trewsbury
Tursberie: Osward from Gilbert FitzTurold.
Trewbury House and outbuildings.
Tuffley
Tuffelege: Gloucester Abbey.
Suburb of Gloucester.
Twyning
Tu(e)ninge: King's land; Winchcombe Abbey.
New housing.
Tytherington
Tidrentune: Osbern Giffard.
Many Roman artefacts.

Uckington
Hochinton: St. Denis's Church, Paris.

Uley
Euuelege: King's land.
Fine prehistoric camp; Neolithic Long Barrow, Broadcloth was made here.
Upleadon
Ledene: Gloucester Abbey. Mill.
Scattered.
Upper Lemington
Lemingtune / Limentone: Gilbert FitzTurold from Westminster Abbey.
A few cottages, part of Lower Lemington.
Upper Slaughter
Sclostre: Roger de Lacy and his mother. Mill.
Cottages remodelled by Sir Edwin Lutyens; Tudor manor house. One of only 14 villages in Britain to be 'doubly thankful'; that is, to have seen the safe return of all its inhabitants who fought in both world wars.
Upper Swell
Su(u)elle: Evesham Abbey. 3 mills.
Mill on the River Dikler; Abbotswood House, designed by Sir Edward Lutyens.
Upper Turkdean
Turchedene / Turghedene: Robert d'Oilly.
Separated from Lower Turkdean by a bank.
Upton St. Leonards
Optune: Humphrey de Maidenhill from the king.
Adjacent to Gloucester; Bowden Hall, now an hotel; Prinknash Abbey, a Benedictine monastery.

Walton Cardiff
Waltone: King's land.
Part of Tewkesbury.
Wapley
Wapelei / lie: King's land; Ralph de Berkeley from the king.

Wapley Rectory
Waperlie: Aldred from the Bishop of Coutances.
Part of Wapley.
Westbury on Severn
Wes(t)berie: King's land.
Westbury Court Gardens are England's earliest Dutch style water gardens (c. 1700).
Westbury on Trym
Huesberie: Bishop of Worcester.
Part of Bristol. Its church is said to stand on a 1200 year old site.
Westonbirt
Westone: Earl Hugh.
Famous arboretum; mansion by Vulliamy (1863-70).
Weston Dovel
Westone: William FitzBaderon.
Part of Westonbirt.
Weston Subedge
Westone: Ansfrid de Cormeilles.

Whaddon
Wadune: Durand the Sheriff.

Wheatenhurst
Witenhert: Harding in pledge from Brictric, the pre-Conquest holder. Mill.
Part of Whitminster village. Whitminster House is nearby.
Whippington
Wilboldingtune: Bishop of Hereford. Fishery.
Possibly part of Hillersland hamlet.
Whittington
Witentune: William Leofric. Mill.
Tudor Whittington Court, Sandywell Park.
Wickwar
Wichen: The Queen gave it to Humphrey the Chamberlain.
Georgian houses.
Wightfield
Wicfeld: Walter Ponther from Westminster Abbey.
Wightfield Manor.
Willersley
Willersei: Evesham Abbey.
Large village green.
Winchcombe
Wicecombe / Wicelcumbe / Wincelcumbe: Gloucester Abbey. 3 mills.
Small town, once an Anglo-Saxon walled city, that was prosperous from wool, then tobacco, then paper. Mill at Postlip; row of 19th century almshouses by Sir Gilbert Scott; fine houses.
Windrush
Wenric: Alfsi of Faringdon from Winchcombe Abbey; Ralph and Hugh from Roger de Lacy; Alfsi of Farringdon and Ketel, from the king. 4� mills.
Built of oolitic limestone; mill on the River Windrush.
Winson
Winestune: Ansfrid de Cormeilles. Mill.

Winstone
Winestan(e): Ansfrid de Cormeilles. Mill.
Saxon church.
Winterbourne
Wintreborne: King's land.
Residential area adjacent to Bristol.
Withington
Widindune: Bishop of Worcester.
Manor; dovecote; foundations of a Roman villa.
Woodchester
Udecestre / Widecestre: King's land; Brictric from the king. Mill.
Old mills; fine clothiers' houses; Roman mosaic pavement in the churchyard.
Woolaston
Odelaveston: William d'Eu. Fishery in the Severn, mill.

Woolstone
Olsendone: St. Denis's Church, Paris.

Wormington
Wermentun: Walter FitzArcold from Roger de Lacy. Mill.
Late Georgian Grange; Saxon cross.
Wootton St. Mary
Utone: William Breakwolf.
Part of Gloucester.
Wootton under Edge
Vatune: King's land.
Market town, an important wool town in the 17th-19th centuries. Isaac Pitman developed his shorthand system here.
Wyck Rissington
Risendone / dune: Hugh from Roger de Lacy. Mill.

Wyegate
Wigheiete: William d'Eu. Fishery.
Now Wyegate Green.

Yanworth
Teneurde: Sigar de Chocques. Mill.

Yate
Giete: Bishop of Worcester.
Overspill town for Bristol and Bath. A stone called Celestine, used in purifying sugar, is found here.

Welsh Entries

Caerleon
Carleion: Thurstan from William d'Ecouis. 4 sesters of honey.
Small town, sometimes identified with Camelot; remains of a Roman fortress and amphitheatre.
Caerwent
Careon: Jocelyn le Breton.
On the site of one of South Wales' most important Roman towns. Parts of the original walls still stand.
Caldicot
Caldecote: Durand the Sheriff.
Town. The castle keep dates from the 13th century.
Llanvair-Discoed
Lamecare

Portskewett
Poteschivet