Rame, Cornwall :: The British Place Names Website

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Rame is a hamlet in Cornwall

Parish/Community: Maker-with-Rame
Unitary Authority: Cornwall
Region: South West

Category: Populated Place
Type: Hamlet

Latitude/Longitude: 50°19'23"N 4°12'48"W
Eastings/Northings: 242534, 49356
OS Grid: SX425493
Mapcode Local: GBR NS.Y3KP
Mapcode Global: FRA 2825.SCV

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

Rame in historic gazetteers

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

Rame, coast par. and vil., Cornwall, 4 miles SW. of Plymouth, 1261 ac., pop. 852; Rame Head is the nearest land to the Eddystone Lighthouse.

Rame in the Domesday Book

A village in Rillaton hundred, in the county of Cornwall.

- Lord of the Manor in 1066: Abbey of Tavistock St Mary & St Rumon
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Abbey of Tavistock
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: Ermenald of Antony (subinfeudated)
- Taxable Value: 1 geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £2 in 1070; £2 in 1086
- Households: 4 villagers; 15 smallholders; 4 slaves
- Plough Teams: 1 lord's plough; 3 men's ploughs (7 plough lands)
- Woodland: 10 acres
- Pasture: 30 acres
- Animals in 1086: 8 cattle; 18 goats