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Huntingdonshire L-Z

Leighton Bromswold
Lectone: Bishop of Lincoln. Mill.
Moated gatehouse.
Little Catworth
Alia / Parva Cateworde: Ely Abbey; Thored from William de Warenne.

Molesworth
Molesworde: Eustace the Sheriff from Countess Judith.
Site of US Cruise Missile base.
Morborne
Morburne: Crowland Abbey. Church.
17th century manor house; Norman chancel arch in church.

Offord Cluny
Opeforde, Upeforde: Monks of Cluny from Arnulf de Hesdin. Church, 2 mills.
Attractive; 13th century church.
Offord Darcy
Up / Opeforde: Ramsey Abbey; Odo from Eustace the Sheriff; Hugh from Countess Judith.

Old Weston
Westune: Ramsey Abbey; Wulfbert from Eustace the Sheriff. Church.
Isolated in the wolds.
Orton Longueville
Ovretone / tune: John from Bishop of Lincoln; Eustace the Sheriff and John and Roger from him. Church.
Part of Peterborough; named after a Norman family.
Orton Waterville
Ovretone / tune: Ansgered from Peterborough Abbey for the supply of the monks and in the king's jurisdiction.
Part of Peterborough; named after the Waltreville family.

Paxton
Pachstone, Parchestune: Countess Judith. 3 mills.
Now 2 villages, Great and Little Paxton.

Ripton
Riptune: Ramsey Abbey; Church.
Now Abbots Ripton; attractive. The moathouse was once the main manor; nearby is Monks Wood, given to Sawtry Abbey in 1147 and now a nature reserve.

St. Ives
Slepe: Ramsey Abbey and Everard, Ingelrann and Pleines from the abbey. Church.
Town.
Sawtry
Saltrede: Ramsey Abbey; Walter from Eustace the Sheriff; Countess Judith; Alwin's wife. 3 churches.
Large; recent building; earthworks and fishponds of a Cistercian Abbey, founded 1147.
Sibson
Sibestune: Thorney Abbey; Lunen from Count Eustace. 2½ churches. 2½ mills.
Manor house; Sibson Aerodrome.
Somersham
Summersham: Ely Abbey; 3 fishponds.
Large; traces of a moated palace of the bishops of Ely.
Southoe
Sutham: Eustace the Sheriff; Robert FitzFafiton. Fishery. 1000 eels.
Manor farm; sites of 3 moated manor houses nearby.
Spaldwick
Spalduic: Ely Abbey. Mill.
On Ellinton Brook. The George Inn, c.1500, has medieval wall paintings.
Stanground
Stangrun: Thorney Abbey. Church.
Part of Peterborough; Cromwellian fortress nearby on Horsey Hill.
Staughton
Tochestone: Eustace the Sheriff from Bishop of Lincoln. Church.
Now an aggregate of 3 villages, Great Staughton and Staughton Green and Highway; site of a 13th century fortified manor house, formerly a castle.
Stibbington
Stebintone / tune: Thorney Abbey; Lunen from Count Eustace. Church.
17th century hall and manor house; partly Norman church.
Stilton
Stic(h)iltone: The king's freemen of Normancross from the king; John from Bishop of Lincoln; Eustace the Sheriff.
Home of Stilton cheese.
Stukeley
Stivecle: Ramsey Abbey; Richard and Hugh, the Abbot's men-at-arms, from the abbey; Herbert from Eustace the Sheriff; Countess Judith. 2 churches.
Now 2 villages, Great and Little Stukeley.

Tilbrooke
Tilebroc: William de Warenne.

Upton
Opetune: Fulk from Earl Hugh. Church, mill.
Moated manor house; 17th century manor farm.
Upwood
Upehude: Ramsey Abbey; Church.
Attractive; old windmill.

Warboys
Wardebusc: Ramsey Abbey. Church.
Fenland. After the deaths of the witches of Warboys in 1593, Henry Cromwell, Oliver's son, paid a Cambridge lecturer to preach against witchcraft each year in Huntingdon, a custom that continued until 1814.
Waresley
Wederesle, Wedreslei(e): Thorold from Swei of Essex; Roger from Eustace the Sheriff; Ranulf brother of Ilger from William FitzAnsculf.
On a wooded ridge; Waresley Park.
Washingley
Wasingelei(a):
Lost.
Water Newton
Newetone: Thorney Abbey. Church, 2 mills.
17th century Water Newton House.
West Perry
Pirie: Eustace the Sheriff. Church.
Now 2 villages, East and West Perry, on Grafham Water; sailing club; ornithological centre.
Winwick
Winewiche / wincle: Odilard the Larderer from Eustace the Sheriff.

Wistow
Wistou: Ramsey Abbey. Church, mill.
Timber-framed, pargetted houses; 16th century farm.
Wood Walton
Waltune: Hugh de Bolbec from Earl William. Church.
Ruins of a castle, possibly built by Henry de Mandeville.
Woodstone
Wodestun: Thorney Abbey. Church.
Part of Peterborough.
Woolley
Cilvelai: Eustace the Sheriff. Golde and her son Wulfric, the pre-Conquest holders.
Manor house; rectory; cottages.
Wyton
Witune: Ramsey Abbey. Church, mill.
17th century houses.

Yaxley
Iacheslei: Thorney Abbey. Church.
Large; important brickworks.
Yelling
Gel(l)inge, Ghellinge: Swein from Ramsey Abbey. Aubrey de Vere. Church.
Quiet. Italian paintings in the late Norman church were part of Napoleon's loot, and bought by a private collector.