Layham

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Layham is a small village in southern Suffolk, England. It is part of the Babergh district and it is currently represented (2007) by Tim Yeo M.P.

It has a church, St Andrew[1].

'Domesday Book' .
'Domesday Book' [2].

[edit] History

Layham is mentioned in the Little Domesday book.

"Æelfnoth held Layham from Harold TRE[3] as a manor with three carucates of land. Then as now 4 villans and 7 bordars. Then five slaves now six. Then as now 2 ploughs in demesne and two ploughs belonging to the men. Eleven acres of meadow, one horse, fifteen head of cattle, fifteen pigs, 100 sheep and nineteen goats. Then it was worth seventy shillings now 100 shillings. It is half a league long and a half broad four and a half pennies in geld. St Edmund had the soke."[4]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Guide to St Andrew Church
  2. ^ Line drawing from Historic Byways and Highways of Old England Andrew Williams 1900
  3. ^ TRE in Latin is Tempore Regis Edwardi. This means in the time of King Edward before the Battle of Hastings.
  4. ^ Domesday Book: A Complete Transliteration. London: Penguin, 2003. ISBN 0-14-143994-7 p.1290

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