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Lamyatt

Lamieta / Lamigeta: Nigel the Doctor from Glastonbury Church. Assessed with Alhampton, etc.

15th century church in a farmyard; Lamyatt Lodge.

Langford Budville

Langeford / fordta: King's land, formerly Godwin FitzHarold. Mill.

Langham

Langeham / Langaham: 3-men-at-arms from William de Mohun. Mill.

Farm.

Langport

Langeport / Langporth / Lanport / Lamporth / Lanporda / Lantporda: King's land; Count of Mortain (a garden). 500 sheep.

On the River Parrett.

Langridge

Lancheris: Azelin from Bishop of Coutances. Mill. 200 sheep.

Old farmhouse; Langridge House.

Lattiford

Lodreford / forda / Lodereforda: Humphrey the Chamberlain.

Mill; Lattiford House.

Laverton

Lavretone / tona: Herbert from William d'Eu.

On Henhambridge Brook.

Leigh (in Old Cleeve)

Lege: Hugh from Alfred d'Epaignes.

Now Leigh Barton.

Leigh (in Lydeard St. Lawrence)

Lega: Bishop of Winchester.

Now Chapel Leigh.

Leigh (in Milverton)

Lege / Lega: Manfred from William de Mohun.

Farm.

Leigh (in Winsham)

Lege / Lega: Robert from William de Mohun.

Leigh House.

Lexworthy

Lecheswrde / surda: Evrard from Count Eustace; Geoffrey from Roger de Courseulles. 2 mills.

Lilstock

Lulestoch / stoc: Ansger Cook. 25 pigs.

Coastal.

Limington

Limingtone / Limintone / Limigtone / Limintona: Roger de Courseulles. Mill.

On the River Yeo.

Litnes

Litelande / Littlelaneia: Bishop of Wells before and after 1066.

Litnes field.

Littleton (in Compton Dundon)

Liteltone / tona: Norman from Roger de Courseulles.

Between 2 Roman sites.

Litton

Litune / tuna: Canons of St. Andrews from Bishop of Wells before and after 1066. 3 mills.

Long Ashton

Estune / Esttuna: Bishop of Coutances and Roger the Bursar and Guy the Priest from him. Mill.

On the outskirts of Bristol; Ashton Court, 16th-17th century with later additions.

Long Sutton

Sutone / tune / Sutona / tuna / Suttona: Athelney Church; Roger de Courseulles.

Medieval Load Bridge; manor farm. Oliver Cromwell described his victory at Langport as the 'Long Sutton Mercy'.

Lopen

Lopen(e) / Loptone / Lopena: Gerard from Count of Mortain; Gerard Ditcher from Roger de Courseulles; Harding FitzAlnoth from the king.

On Lopen Brook, beside the Roman Fosse Way.

Lovington

Lovintune / tona: Serlo de Burcy. Mill.

Loxton

Lochestone / tona: Count Eustace. Mill.

Church with fine stone pulpit, typical of the Mendip area.

Luccombe

Locumbe / cumba: Ralph de Limesy, formerly Queen Edith; Vitalis from Odo FitzGamelin.

Pretty; thatched cottages.

Luckington

Lochintone / tona: Alfred d'Epaignes. Mill.

Now Luckington Cross; farm.

Lufton

Lochetone / Locutona: Ansger from Count of Mortain.

Manor house.

Lullington

Loligtone / tona: Bishop of Coutances, formerly Earl Harold. Mill. 220 sheep.

Norman church.

Luxborough

Lolochesberie / beria: Ranulf and Nigel from William de Mohun.

In the Brendon Hills, a Roman iron-working area; a lead-mining community in the 19th century.

Lyde

Eslide / lida: Azelin from Roger Arundel.

Now Great Lyde Farm and Little Lyde in Yeovil.

Lydeard St. Lawrence

Lidiard / Lediart / Lidiarda: Bishop of Winchester.

Lyncombe

Lincume / cuma: Bath Church. 2 mills. 180 sheep.

South Lyncombe, part of Bath.

Lyng

Lege / Lega: Athelney Church.

Once fortified; traces of earthworks. King Alfred built a causeway joining it to Athelney.

Lytes Cary

Curi / Kari: Humphrey the Chamberlain. 12 cattle.

Lytes Cary manor house.

M

Maidenbrook

Maidenbroche / broca: Bishop of Winchester.

Farm.

Manworthy

Maneworde / Maneurda:

Lost.

Maperton

Malpertone / Malperettona: Geoffrey from Thurstan FitzRolf. 2mills. 17 cattle.

Marksbury

Mercesberie / beria: Glastonbury Church. 29 pigs.

18th century manor house.

Marsh Mills

Mulselle / sella: Hugh from Alfred d'Epaignes.

Marston Bigot

Mersitone / tona: Roger Arundel. Mill.

17th-18th century Marston House.

Marston Magna

Merstone / tona: Count of Mortain and Robert from him.

Once made cider.

Martock

M(a)ertoch / tocha / Mar / Mertocha / Maertoc / toca: King's land, formerly Queen Edith. 2 mills, fishery. 300 sheep.

House with a 13th century hall.

Meare

Mere / Mera: Glastonbury Church. 3 fisheries, vineyard.

Iron Age lake village, now on its own 'island' above the moors; 14th century Fish House; manor house, once the summer retreat of the Abbots of Glastonbury.

Melcombe

Melecome / coma: Robert d'Auberville. Mill.

Mells

Mulle / Mulla: Glastonbury Church and Bishop of Coutances and Godiva, whose husband was the pre-Conquest holder, from the church. Mill.

Beautiful Tudor manor house, seat of the Horne family, one of whom was 'little Jack Horner' of the nursery rhyme. 4 prehistoric camps nearby: Wadbury, Tedbury, Newbury and Kingsdown.

Merridge

Malrige: Ranulf from Alfred d'Epaignes. Mill.

Also Lower Merridge hamlet.

Merriott

Meriet: Dodman from Count of Mortain; Harding from the king. 4 mills. 10 cattle.

Once a centre for flax and canvas.

Middlecote

Millescote:

Lost.

Middlezoy

Sowi: Glastonbury Church.

17 cattle. Above marshes once crossed only by causeways.

Midelney

Midelenie / neia: Muchelney Church. Vineyard, 2 fisheries (6000 eels). 21 cattle, 30 goats (with Muchelney and Thorney).

Elizabethan manor; mews for falcons.

Midgell

Megele / gela: Leofwin from Bishop of Coutances.

Farm.

Milborne Port

Meleburne / borna / burna / Milburne / borna: King's land, with Reinbald holding the church. 6 mills, market. 22 pigs, 153 sheep.

Market town.

Milton (in Skilgate)

Mildetune / tuna:

Lost.

Milton (in Weston-super-Mare)

Middeltone / Mildeltuna / Mideltone / tona: Richard from Walter de Douai; Alfward from Ansketel.

Part of Weston-super-Mare.

Milton Clevedon

Mideltune / tuna: Hildebert from Matthew de Mortagne. Mill. 10 cattle, 60 sheep, 40 goats.

Manor farm.

Milverton

Milvertone / tune / tona / tuna / Melvertona: King's land, with Stephen the Chaplain holding the church. Mill, market.

Large. Archbishop Thomas Cranmer was an incumbent of the 15th century parsonage.

Minehead

Maneheue / heua: William de Mohun. Mill. 16 cattle, 300 sheep.

Seaside resort. Its oldest part, Quay Town, has a 17th century harbour.

Monksilver

Selve / vere / vre / Selva / vera / vra: Aldred and Alric from Roger de Courseulles. Richard from Alfred d'Epaignes. Mill. 2 oxen.

Monkton Combe

Cume / Cuma: Bath Church. 2 mills.

Large; on Midford Brrok.

Montacute

Montagud / gut: Count of Mortain (his castle).

Montacute House, built of Ham Hill stone.

Moortown

Lamore: Ogis from Roger de Courseulles.

Farm.

Moreton

Mortone / Morthona: Serlo de Burcy. Mill.

Flooded by the Chew Valley Reservoir.

Mudford

Mudiford / forda / Mundiford / forda / Modiforda: King's lands; Warmund from Wulfward White, an English thane; Dodman from Count of Mortain; Reginald from Serlo de Burcy. Mill. 23 pigs.

On the River Yeo.

Mudford Sock

Soche: Vitalis from Roger de Courseulles.

Myne

Mene:

Lost.

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Nettlecombe

Netecumbe / coba / comba / Netelcumbe / comba: King's land, formerly Godwin FitzHarold.

On Exmoor; Nettlecombe Court, home of the Raleigh family.

Newhall

Neuhalle / Newiahalla:

Lost.

Newton (in Bicknoller)

Niwetune / Niuetuna: William de Mohun. Mill.

Newton (in North Petherton)

Newentone / tona / Newetone / tune / Niwetone / tona: Alfred of Marlborough from Count Eustace; Robert from Roger de Courseulles; Ralph from Roger Arundel; Stable from John the Usher. Mill.

On the Bridgwater and Taunton Canal.

Newton St. Loe

Niwetone / New / Niwetona: Bishop of Coutances. Mill. 12 cattle.

Newton Park, now a teacher training college.

North Cadbury

Cadeberie / beria: Thurstan FitzRolf. 2 mills. 31 cattle, 60 pigs.

Attractive. Tudor manor house.

North Curry

Nortcuri / Nordchori / Nortchori: King's land, formerly Earl Harold, with Bishop Maurice holding the church; Ansger le Breton from Count of Mortain. Fishery, vineyard. 20 cattle, 20 pigs, 100 sheep.

North Perrott

Peret / Peredt: Bretel from Count of Mortain. 2 mills.

Manor house and park.

North Petherton

Nordperet / pereth / Nortperret / Petreta / Pedret / Peretune / tuna: King's land, formerly King Edward. Mill.

Large.

North Wootton

Utone / Utona: Edred from Glastonbury Church.

Norton FitzWarren

Nortone / tona: Alfred from Count of Mortain. 2 mills.

Attractive; 14th century church.

Norton Malreward

Nortone / tona: Wulfeva from Bishop of Coutances. Mill.

Hauteville's Quoit, a single stone forming part of a Bronze Age complex, nearby.

Norton St. Philip

Nortune / tuna: Edward of Salisbury. Sheriff of Wiltshire. Mill. 20 cattle, 28 pigs, 240 sheep.

Partly 14th century George Inn.

Norton sub Hamdon

Nortone / tona: St. Mary's Church, Grestain from Count of Mortain. 2 mills. 10 cattle.

Nunnery

Noiun / Nonin: Thorgils from William de Mohun. ½ mill. 20 pigs.

Attractive; ruins of a 14th century moated castle.

Nynehead

Nichehede / Nichebede: Bishop of Winchester.

Nynehead Court.

O

Oake

Acha / Ache / Acca: Geoffrey de Vautortes from Roger de Courseulles. Mill.

Farmhouse; tithe barn.

Oakley

Accheleia / Achelai / Achelaia: King's land.

Oakley House; Oakley Farms.

Oaktrow

Wochetreu: Durand from William de Mohun.

Oaktrow Wood.

Oare

Are / Ar: Ralph de Pomeroy. 20 cattle.

Remote; features in Lorna Doone by R.D. Blackmore.

Odcombe

Udecome / Odecoma: Ansger le Breton from Count of Mortain. Mill. 126 sheep.

Birthplace of Thomas Coryate (1577-1617), whose Crudities, about his travels in Europe, was published in 1611.

Old Cleeve

Clive / Cliva: King's land, formerly Earl Harold. 2 mills. 300 wethers, 50 goats.

Cleeve Abbey, founded in 1138, an unusual example of Cistercian domestic architecture.

Old Stowey

Staweit / Estaweit: Durand from William de Mohun.

In the Brendon Hills.

Orchardleigh

Horcelei / Hordcerleia / Orcerleia: Bishop of Coutances. Mill. 3 cobs.

19th century Elizabethan-style house; church where the poet Sir Henry Newbolt (1862-1938) is buried.

Otterhampton

Otramestone / tona / Otremetone / Otrammetona / Oterammatona: Robert from Roger de Courseulles; Herbert from Alfred d'Epaignes, Osmer, whose father was the pre-Conquest holder, from the king.

Hill House, near the mouth of the River Parrett.

Overleigh

Lega: Glastonbury Church. 20 pigs.

Part of Street.

Over Stratton

Stratone: King's land.

P

Panborough

Wadeneberie / Padenaberia: Glastonbury Church. Island, vineyard.

Locality near Wedmore.

Pardlestone

Plestone / tona: Roger de Courseulles.

Farms; Pardlestone Hill.

Pawlett

Pauelet / Paulet: Rademar from Walter de Douai.

Church with a fine Norman doorway; owned by John of Gaunt in the 14th century.

Pedwell

Pedewelle / willa: Walter de Douai from Glastonbury Church.

Pendomer

Penne / Penna: Alfred from Count of Mortain. 12 cattle, 35 pigs, 250 sheep.

Remote; 16th century manor house.

Pennard

Pennarminstre / ministra: Glastonbury Church and Serlo de Burcy from the church. 42 cattle, 25 pigs.

Now East Pennard; Pennard House.

Penselwood

Penne / Penna: William Gerard from Roger Arundel. Mill.

Site of a Saxon victory in 658.

Perry

Peri / Pedri: William and Geoffrey de Vautortes from Roger de Courseulles; Ralph from Roger Arundel; John the Usher.

Farm.

Petherham

Perredham: Ansketel from Roger de Courseulles.

Farm.

Pightley

Puchelege / lega: Geoffrey de Vautortes from Roger de Courseulles. ½ mill.

Pillock's Orchard

Pilloch / Pilloc: Ansketel from Roger de Courseulles.

Field in Cannington.

Pilton

Piltone / tona: Glastonbury Church and Ralph Crooked Hands from the church. 2 mills. 4 cobs, 35 cattle, 56 pigs, 500 sheep, 42 goats.

Pitcombe

Pidecome / coma: Thurstan FitzRolf. 2 mills. 6 unbroken mares, 12 cattle, 60 pigs.

Godminster Farm, mainly 15th century, nearby.

Pitcott

Picote / cota / Piccota: Edmund FitzPayne; William Hussey from Geoffrey of Mowbray. Mill.

Pitminster

Piperminstre / Pinpeministre: Bishop of Winchester. Mill. 2 pigs.

16th century houses, Poundisford Park and Poundisford Lodge, nearby.

Pitney

Petenie / neia: King's land, formerly Wulfward White.

Pitney House.

Pixton

Potesdone / dona: Roger de Coursuelles.

Pixton Park; remains of a 12th century priory at nearby Barlinch.

Plainsfield

Planesfelle / fella: Hugh from Alfred d'Epaignes.

On the edge of Quantock Forest.

Podimore

Mideltone / Middeltona: Glastonbury Church.

Poleshill

Pouselle / ella: Dodman from William de Mohun.

Ponteside

Panteshede: Roger de Cuorseulles.

Possibly the valley where Towerhead Brook rises.

Porlock

Portloc: Drogo from Baldwin of Exeter.

Coastal; tourist centre.

Portbury

Porberie / beria: Bishop of Coutances. 2 mills. 14 unbroken mares, 15 cattle, 216 sheep.

Portbury Dock at the mouth of the Avon.

Portishead

Porteshe / heue: William de Monceaux from Bishop of Coutances. Mill. 60 goats.

Part of the Severnside Industrial Area; resort in the 19th century.

Preston (in Milverton)

Prestetone / tune / Prestitone: Robert FitzIvo from Count of Mortain, formerly Earl Harold; Hugh from Alfred d'Epaignes. 2 mills. 13 cattle.

Now Preston Bowyer.

Preston Plucknett

Prestetone: Ansger of Montacute.

On the outskirts of Yeovil; fine medieval tithe barn.

Priston

Prisctone / tona: Bath Church. Mill.

Remote.

Puckington

Pochintune / Pokintuna / Pochingtona: William from Roger de Courseulles.

Puriton

Peritone / tona: The only holding of St. Peter's, Rome, a reward for the Pope's encouragement of the Conquest.

Town, site of the Royal Ordnance Factory.

Pylle

Pille / Pilla: Serlo de Burcy from Glastonbury Church.

Manor house.

Q

Quantock

Cantoche / toca:

Lost.

Quarme

Carme / Carma: Manfred from William de Mohun, Godbold. 15 cattle.

Now 2 hamlets, North and South Quarme.

Queen Camel

Camel: King's land, formerly Countess Gytha. 2 mills. 12 cattle, 20 pigs, 300 sheep.

Hazelgrove Park, a Tudor house built in the 18th century.

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