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Quintont
Quintone: Countess Judith and Winemar from her.
Manor farm.

Radstone
Rodestone: Earl Hugh.

Raunds
Rande: Bishop of Coutances; William Peverel. 2 mills (100 eels).
Town, a centre of the footwear industry; Roman earthworks at Mallow Cotton.
Ravensthorpe
Ravenestorp: Count Mortain; Drogo from William Peverel; Gilbert Cook.

Roade
Rode: King's land; Dodin from Gunfrid de Chocques.
Large; developing.
Rothersthorpe
Torp: Winemar from Geoffrey Alselin; Gunfrid de Chocques. Mill.
17th century manor house.
Rothwell
Rodewelle: King's land. 2 mills. (Surveyed with Orton).
Town with a magnificent medieval church. The annual Charter Fair dates from 1204.
Rushden
Ris(e)dene: William Peverel. Mill.
Footwear manufacturing town; red-brick Victorian terraces.
Rushton
Ricsdone / Rise(e)tone: King's land; Grestain Abbey; Hugh from Robert de Tosny; William from Robert de Bucy; Eustace from Countess Judith. 2 mills.
16th century Triangular Lodge was built by Sir Thomas Tresham as a manifestation of his Roman Catholic faith.

Scaldwell
Scalde(s)welle: Aubrey from Bishop of Coutances; St. Edmund's Abbey (gift from King William for the soul of Queen Matilda); also Hugh from Countess Judith.

Seawell
Sewelle: Robert de Tosny. Mill.
Isolated.
Sibbertoft
Sibertod: Count of Mortain.
Castle Yard, a large motte and bailey nearby.
Silverstone
Sel / Silvestone: Count of Mortain; Godwin from Giles brother of Ansculf; Arnold from Geoffrey de Mandeville.

Slapton
Slaptone: Jocelyn from Earl Hugh.
Secluded; manor farm.
Slipton
Sliptone: Peterborough Abbey.

Snorscomb
Snochescumbe: Count of Mortain; and Alric from him.
Isolated; mill.
Southorpe
Sudtorp: Goeffrey and 2 other men-at-arms from Peterborough Abbey. 2½ mills.
String of houses. Mill Farm.
Spratton
Spretone / Sprotone: William and Durand from Count of Mortain; Ralph from Robert de Bucy; Rohais from Countess Judith. 2 mills.
Hall.
Stanford on Avon
Stanford: Abbot Benedict of Selby from Guy de Raimbeaucourt.

Stanion
Stanere: King's land; Edwin from Bishop of Coutances. Mill.
In Rockingham Forest.
Stanwick
Stanewiga / wige: Peterborough Abbey. Mill.
Manor house.
Staverton
Stavertone: Count of Mortain; Hugh de Grandmesnil.
Stone-built; manor house.
Steane
Stane: Giles brother of Ansculf. Mill.
17th century chapel and manor house. The site of the medieval vilage wiped out by the Black Death is still visible.
Stoke Albany
Stoche: Robert de Tosny. Mill.
Manor house, mainly 17th century.
Stoke Bruerne
Stoche: Swein from the king. Mill.
Canalside; pavilions designed by Inigo Jones nearby.
Stoke Doyle
Stoche: Peterborough Abbey.

Stowe
Stowe: Gilbert de Ghent. Mill.
Now Church Stowe, also known as Stowe Nine Churches because there were 8 fruitless attempts to build the church, with its mainly Saxon tower, elsewhere.
Stuchbury
Stoteberie: Hugh and Landric from Giles brother of Ansculf.
Isolated; manor farm; hall.
Sudborough
Sutburg: Westminster Abbey. Mill.
Riverside; in Rockingham Forest. 'Money Holes' are the remains of a medieval monastery.
Sulby
Solebi: Walter from Guy de Raimbeaucourt; Geoffrey de La Guerche.
Large area of lonely farmsteads, including Sulby Grange.
Sulgrave
Sulgrave: Hugh, Landric and Odbert from Giles brother of Ansculf.
The manor was owned by George Washington's family from 1540 to 1659; Church with Saxon doorway.
Sutton Bassett
Sutone: Robert de Bucy; Countess Judith.

Syresham
Sigre(s)ham: Ralph from Count of Mortain; King's land, Geoffrey from Giles brother of Ansculf.
Sprawling; Kingshill farm; Earl's Wood.
Sywell
Snewelle: Count of Mortain.
On the edge of Northampton; Elizabethan hall.

Tansor
Tanesovre: King's land. Mill.

Teeton
Teche: William Peverel.

Thenford
Taneford / Teworde: Roger from Robert d'Oilly; Mainou le Breton. Mill.
Peaceful; in woodland setting; Roman site nearby.
Thornby
Torneberie: William Peverel and Robert from him.

Thorpe (in Peterborough)
Torp: Peterborough Abbey.
Suburb of Peterborough. Longthorpe Hall is by Peter Mills, a contemporary of Christopher Wren.
Thorpe Lubenham
Torp: Hugh from Hugh de Grandmesnil.
Hall, parkland with remains of medieval moat.
Thorpe Malsor
Alidetorp: Fulchere from Count of Mortain.
Hall.
Thorpe Mandeville
Torp: Ingelrann from Giles, brother of Ansculf.
The site of the ancient manor house is still visible.
Thrapston
Trapestone: Odelin from Bishop of Coutances; Oger Breton. Mill.
Small market town with a 13th century bridge.
Thrupp Grounds
Torp: Alfred from Count of Mortain; Hugh de Grandmesnil; Gunfrid de Chocques, Leofric the pre-Conquest holder, from Countess Judith.
Handful of houses on Roman Watling Street.
Thurning
Terninge / Torninge: Peterborough Abbey.
Peaceful.
Tiffield
Tifelde: Ralph and William from Count of Mortain.
Struggling.
Titchmarsh
Ticemerse / Tircemesse: Azelin from Peterborough Abbey; Saswalo from Henry de Ferrers. Mill.
Castle remains.
Towcester
Touecestre: King's land. Mill.
Town that grew up along Roman Watling Street. In the 13th century Benedetto Gaetano, who later became Pope, held the living. The Saracen's Head Inn was immortalised by Charles Dickens in The Pickwick Papers.
Trafford
Trapeford: Robert from Earl Hugh. Mill.
Isolated. Georgian Trafford bridge carries the ancient 'Welsh Road' across the River Cherwell.
Twywell
Teowelle / Tuiwella: Thorney Abbey; Countess Judith. 2 mills.
Elizabethan manor house.

Upper Heyford
altera Haiford: Count of Mortain.

Upton (near Northampton)
Optone: King's land. Mill.
18th century hall. Mill.

Wadenhoe
Wadenho: Aubrey from Bishop of Coutances; Roger from Peterborough Abbey. 2 mills (65 eels).
Pretty; manor house; mill.
Wakefield
Wacafeld: Ralph the Steward from Count Alan.
In ancient Whittlewood Forest.
Wakerley
Wacherlei: Eudo FitzHubert. Mill.
On the edge of Rockingham Forest.
Walgrave
Waldgrave / Wold(e)grave: King's land; Robert from Count of Mortain; Fulchere from Countess Judith.
Jacobean hall.
Walton Grounds
Wal(e)tone: William from Bishop of Bayeux; Ralph from Count of Mortain. Mill.
Lonely; Mill House Farm.
Wappenham
Wapeham: Giles brother of Ansculf. Mill.

Warkton
Werchintone: St. Edmund's Abbey; formerly Countess Aelfeve mother of Earl Morcar. Mill.
Estate village.
Warmington
War / Werminstone: Peterborough Abbey, and 2 men-at-arms from the Abbey. Mill (325 eels).
Pretty; stone-built manor house; mill.
Watford
Wat / Wadford: Gilbert Cook. Mill.
In parkland.
Weedon Bec(k)
Wedone: Count of Mortain; Hugh de Grandmesnil, in exchange for Watford. 2 mills.
Expanding.
Weedon Lois
Wedone: Giles brother of Ansculf. Mill.
Remains of fishponds. The poet Edith Sitwell was buried here in 1964.
Weekley
Wiclei: King's land. Mill.

Weldon
Wale(s)done / Weledene / Weledone: Robert de Bucy; Olaf from the king.
Roman villa nearby; the Romans were the first to work the much-valued local stone.
Welford
Wellesford: Alfred from Geoffrey de La Guerche.
Brick-built; manor house.
Wellingborough
Wedlingeberie / Wendle(s)berie: Norigot from Bishop of Coutances; Crowland Abbey; Hugh and Gilbert from Countess Judith. 3 mills.
Victorian brick-built town, a centre of footwear and clothing industries. Earlier buildings include the largely Jacobean Croyland Abbey. Mills.
Welton
Waletone / Weletone / Welintone: Wulfmer the pre-Conquest holder from Count of Mortain; Osbern from Hugh de Grandmesnil; Leofric, the pre-Conquest holder from Countess Judith. Mill.
Georgian manor house.
Werrington
Widerintone: Peterborough Abbey and 4 of the men-at-arms from the Abbey.
Suburb of Peterborough; Georgian hall.
West Farndon
Ferendon(e): Ralph from Count of Mortain; Hugh de Grandmesnil.

West Haddon
Ecdone / E(d)done: Coventry Abbey; William Peverel; Gunfrid de Chocques.
Hall.
Weston by Welland
Westone: Robert de Bucy; Countess Judith.

Weston Favell
Westone: King's land; Grestain Abbey; Count of Mortain and Walter from him; John from Gunfrid de Chocques.
Part of Northampton.
Whilton
Woltone: Count of Mortain. Mill.
Quiet.
Whiston
Wice(n)tone: Ramsey Abbey; Countess Judith. Mill.
Quiet. King John may have used the Moat House, which has remains of a bailey.
Whitfield
Witefelle: King's land.
Unspoilt.
Wicken
Wicha / Wiche: Roger from Robert d'Oilly; Mainou le Breton.

Wilbarston
Wilberdestone / Wilbertestone: King's land. Robert de Tosny.
Ironstone.
Wilby
Wilebi: Countess Judith.

Winwick
Winewic(he): Coventry Abbey; William Peverel.
Elizabethan manor house. Sir Thomas Malory, author of the Morte d'Arthur (1469-70), was Lord of Winwick Manor.
Wittering
Wit(h)eringham: Ansketel from Peterborough Abbey. Mills.
Swamped by housing estates; RAF station; Saxon church.
Wollaston
Wilavestone: Gunfrid de Chocques; Countess Judith and Corbelin from her. 2 mills.
Large; industrial.
Woodford (near Denford)
Wodeford: Ralph from Bishop of Coutances; Roger, Hugh and Siward from Peterborough Abbey. Mill.
Rectory Farm, formerly the manor house. Generel Charles Arbuthnot and his diarist wife, friends of the Duke of Wellington, lived at Woodford House in the early 19th century.
Woodford Halse
Wodeford: Richard from Hugh de Grandmesnil. Mill.
Transformed by the arrival of railway, now quiet again.
Woodnewton
Niwetone: Reginald from Eustace of Huntingdon. Mill.
Pretty; limestone.
Wootton
Witone: Winemar from Walter the Fleming and Countess Judith.
Dormitory.
Wothorpe
Wri(d)torp: Alwin from Peterborough Abbey; Crowland Abbey; Robert from Countess Judith. Mill.
Towers, the remains of a small house built in the early 17th century for Thomas Cecil, son of Lord Burghley.
Wythemail
Widmale: Fulchere from Walter the Fleming.
Wythemail Park Farm with part of a moat was perhaps the old manor house.

Yardley Hastings
Gerdelai: Countess Judith.
Attractive; 14th century manor house; Ancient Yardley Chase to the south.
Yelvertoft
Celvrecot / Gelvrecote / Givertost: Count of Mortain; Earl Hugh.