Middleton

Built-Up Area: Middleton
Parish/Community: Middleton
District/Borough: King's Lynn and West Norfolk
County: Norfolk
Region: Eastern

Category: Populated Place
Type: Village

Latitude/Longitude: 52°42'56"N 0°27'38"E
Eastings/Northings: 566302, 315966
OS Grid: TF663159
Mapcode Local: GBR P5J.P8H
Mapcode Global: WHKQD.1ZLW

Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Middleton within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.

Middleton in historic gazetteers

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Middleton, par. and vil. with ry. sta., Norfolk, 3 miles SE. of Kings Lynn, 3029 ac., pop. 879; P.O.; in vicinity of vil. are Middleton Hall and Middleton Tower, seats; the latter is a building of time of Henry VI., restored and enlarged.

Middleton in the Domesday Book

A village in Freebridge hundred, in the county of Norfolk.

Four manors recorded in Domesday.

1st Manor
- Lord of the Manor in 1066: Bondi of Raynham
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Hugh de Montfort
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: Aelod (subinfeudated)
- Taxable Value: 2 ³⁄₄ geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: 10 shillings in 1066; £6 5/- in 1086
- Households: 12 villagers; 17 smallholders; 2 freemen; 1 slave
- Plough Teams: 1 lord's plough; 3 ¹⁄₂ men's ploughs
- Meadow: 32 acres
- Woodland: 4 pigs
- Mills: 1
- Other resources: 8 salthouses; 1 fishery
- Animals in 1066: 3 cattle; 10 pigs
- Animals in 1086: 5 cattle; 6 pigs; 1 cob
2nd Manor
- Lord of the Manor in 1066: Thorkil
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: William of Ecouis
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: William of Ecouis
- Taxable Value: 2 geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £5 in 1066; £7 in 1086
- Households: 4 villagers; 6 smallholders; 4 slaves
- Plough Teams: 2 lord's ploughs; ¹⁄₂ men's plough
- Meadow: 30 acres
- Mills: 1
- Other resources: 8 salthouses; 1 fishery
- Animals in 1066: 2 cows; 16 pigs; 1 cob
- Animals in 1086: 10 pigs; 1 cob
3rd Manor
- Lord of the Manor in 1066: Abbey of Bury St Edmunds
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Abbey of Bury St Edmunds
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: Richard (subinfeudated)
- Taxable Value: 1 geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £1 in 1086
- Households: 3 villagers; 2 smallholders; 1 freeman; 1 slave
- Plough Teams: 1 lord's plough
- Meadow: 20 acres
- Other resources: 2 salthouses
- Animals in 1086: 4 pigs
4th Manor
- Overlord in 1066: Archbishop Stigand
- Lord of the Manor in 1066: Free men, six
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: William of Ecouis
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: William of Ecouis
- Taxable Value: 1 geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £1 4/7¼ in 1086
- Plough Teams: 1 men's plough
- Woodland: 100 pigs

British Place Names

Middleton, Norfolk

Middleton is a village in Middleton , Norfolk

Middleton in historic gazetteers

Middleton in the Domesday Book