Pebworth

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Pebworth is a civil parish about 8km north-west of Chipping Campden in the county of Worcestershire, but very close to Gloucestershire. It includes the hamlet of Broad Marston[1].

'The Domesday Book includes Pebworth and Broad Marsden' .
'The Domesday Book includes Pebworth and Broad Marsden' [2].

[edit] History

Pebworth is mentioned in the Domesday Book

"Hugh de Grandmesnil holds Pebworth. There are two hides and one virgate. Two thegns held it as two manors. There are three ploughs and one villan and one bordar and seven slaves.
The same Hugh holds Broad Marston. There are two hides."[3]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Genuki listing for Pebworth
  2. ^ Line drawing from Historic Byways and Highways of Old England Andrew Williams 1900
  3. ^ Domesday Book: A Complete Transliteration. London: Penguin, 2003. ISBN 0-14-143994-7 p.?

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Coordinates: 52°07′N 1°48′W / 52.117, -1.8