Wingham Village

  

village of the dwellers at the heathen temple

Wingham in the Domes Day Book
Original Translation
In the Lathe1 of EASTRY is WINGHAM Hundred2
WINGHAM in lordship3. It answered for 40 sulungs4 before 1066; now for 35.  In demesne5 80 carucates6, and 85 villeins7 with 20 bordari8 who have 57 carucates. There are 8 servi9; 2 mills at 34s; woodland for feedig 5 pigs;  2 small woods for fencing.
Total value before 1066 £77; when acquired the same; now £100.
William of Arques holds 1 sulung of his manor in Fleet. He has 1 carucate in Lordship and 4 villeins and 1 man-at-arms with 1 carucate. A fishery with a salt-house at 30d
Value of the whole 40s.
Of the manor itself 5 of the archbishop's men hold 51/2 sulungs and 3 yokes. In lordship they have 8 carucates. 22  borderi and 8 servi.
In total, value £21
1. Lathe - a divison of land only recognised in Kent derives from geladian (to assemble)
2. Hundred - A measure of land equal to 100 hides
3. in lordship - belonging to the Archbishop

4. sulung or sulin - a Kentish measure equal the amount of land that could be tilled in a year by one plough of four oxen team of 4 oxen. Equivalent of one hide or app. 216 English or 80 Norman acres
5. demense - part of an estate held to the Lord's proper use
6. carucate or ploughs worth - The amount of land that could be cultivated by one plough in one year
7. villein - A man in servitude to the lord of the manor. Tied to a set piece of land on which he worked in order to support himself and family through the provission of food and lodgings supplied by their master. 
8. bordari - Those who carried out inferior work (threshing, wood cutting, drawing water etc.)
9. servi - people of a lower ranking than villeins and bordari - often bought and sold as slaves.
Women and children were not counted. Hussey (1896) calculates the total population of Wingham Hundred to be approximately 900 spread over the present day parishes of Wingham, Ash, Goodnestone, Nonington and Woomanswold.
Hussey, Arthur (1896) The Chronicles of Wingham : Pub. J. A. Jennings

Wingham Village: History