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Norfolk D-G

Denton
Dentuna: King's land, in the charge of William de Noyers; Eudo FitzSpirwic. ½ mill.
Broadland.
Denver
Danefaela / -fella: William de Warenne and Hugh from him. 2 fisheries.
Fenland; Denver Sluice, the key to the drainage system of the South Fenlands.
Deopham
D(i)epham: William de Warenne; Ralph de Beaufour. 17 pigs, 32 goats.

Dersingham
Dersincham: Ricwold from Eudo FitzSpirwic; Peter de Valognes and Anand from him. Mill, 2 salthouses, fishery. 646 sheep.
Small town near the coast and Sandringham Estate.
Dickleburgh
Dicclesburc: St. Edmund's who held before and after 1066. Church.
Imposing perpendicular church; birthplace of the watercolourist George Cattermole (1800-68).
Didlington
Dudelingatuna: William de Warenne; Ralph de Limésy. Mill, fishery.
On the River Wissey; weir; Watermill Farm.
Dilham
Dilham / Dillam: Count Alan; Robert Malet; Roger Bigot; Abbot of Holme.
Near Broad Fen.
Diss
Dice: Roger Bigot from the king. Church. 5 goats.
Attractive market town built around a mere. The Poet Laureate John Skelton, tutor to Henry VIII, was rector here (1504-29).
Ditchingham
Dicingaham: King's land, in the charge of William de Noyers. 2 mills. 55 goats.
Early 18th century hall with a garden by Capability Brown.
Docking
Doching(h)e: Bishop of Bayeux; Ricwold from Eudo FitzSpirwic. Cow, 17 pigs.
The Roman Catholic martyr, Henry Walpole was baptised here c.1588.
Downham Market
Dun(e)ham: William de Warenne; Roger Bigot; Abbot of Ely.
Town with a market reputedly established before the Conquest; remains of a Roman road.
Drayton
Draituna: Ralph de Beaufour. Church.
Town adjoining Norwich.
Dunham
Dumham / Dunham: King's land, in the charge of William de Noyers; Ralph de Tosny; Reynold the priest with the daughter of Payne from Edmund FitzPayne. ½ market, mill, 3 beehives. 19 cattle, 17 pigs.
Now 2 villages, Little Dunham, and Great Dunham village with a flint, mainly Saxon, church.
Dunston
Dunestun(a) / Dustuna: Count Alan; Roger Bigot; Godric the steward; Ralph de Beaufour. 1 1/3 mills.
Queen Anne manor house.
Dunton
Dontuna: King's land. Mill.

Dykebeck
Hidichetorp / Idikethorp: Ralph Baynard. ¼ church. 22 pigs.
Dyke Beck; and Dykebeck Hall.

Earlham
Erlham: Wulfgeat from the king, in the custody of Godric; Count Alan. Mill.
Part of Norwich on the River Yare; part of the University of East Anglia.
Earsham
Ersam / Hersam: King's land, in the charge of William de Noyers. 2 mills. 3 horses at the hall.
Mill.
East Beckham
Beccheham / Bech(e)am: King's land, in the custody of Godric; Roger Bigot; Bishop William. Church.

East Carleton
Carletuna / Karletuna: Walter and Ulf from Roger Bigot; Ralph de Beaufour; Ranulf Peverel and Waring from him. 2 churches.
Hall, a Cheshire Home.
East Dereham
Derham: Abbot of Ely before and after 1066; Oder from Ralph de Beaufour. 4 mills.
Town with some industry on a tributary of the River Wensum.
Easton (near Norwich)
Estuna: Count Alan.
On the River Tud; site of the Royal Norwich Showground.
Easton (in Scottow)
Estuna:
Lost.
East Ruston
Ristuna: Geoffrey from Ralph Baynard. 51 goats. Mill.
Birthplace of the famous academic Richard Porson, in 1759.
East Tuddenham
Easttudenham / Todeneham / Toddenham / Tudenham: Count Alan; Hermer de Ferrers; Ralph de Beaufour. ½ mill, church. 160 sheep.
Church with many 13th century and early features.
East Walton
Waltuna: Count Alan; Robert de Vaux from Roger Bigot; Ralph de Tosny. Mill, Church.
Church with a Norman tower.
East Winch
Estuuininc / Eastwninc / Estuunic / Estwnic: King's land, in the custody of Godric, also Bordin from Annex: of Hermer; Roger Bigot, and Robert de Vaux from him; Ralph de Tosny. Fishery, 1½ salthouses, ½ church.
Ruins of the moated manor of Sir William Howard, of the family which became dukes of Norfolk in 1483; church with Norman features.
Eaton
Aietona / tuna / Etona / Ettuna / ttune: King's land, in the custody of Godric. Mill, church.
Part of Norwich near the River Yare; tumuli; golf course.
Eccles (near Attleborough)
Eccles: Bishop William. Mill.
Now Eccles Road.
Eccles (in Hempstead)
Eccles / Heccles: Abbot of Holme before and after 1066; Aelmer FitzGodwin
. Also called Eccles on Sea; ruined church on the beach.
Edgefield
Edisfelda: Peter de Valognes; Humphrey from Ranulf, brother of Ilger. Mill, 2 beehives.
Near the River Geet. Richard Lubbock, author of Fauna in Norfolk was rector here for 40 years in the 19th century.
Egmere
Edgamere / Egemere / Estgamera: King's land; Frederic from William de Warenne; Morel from Bishop William.

Ellingham (near Loddon)
Elincham: King's land in the charge of William de Noyers. Church.
Clock tower (1855) with living accommodation at its base.
Elsing
Helsinga: Wymer from William de Warenne. 2 mills, church, 12 beehives. 10 cattle.
Mill at Mill Street nearby. The Tudor moated manor was held by descendants of Wymer until 1958.
Erpingham
Erpincham / Herpincham: Roger Bigot; Abbot of Holme; Drogo de Beuvrière; Humphrey from Ranulf brother of Ilger. Church.
Church with a brass memorial to Sir Thomas Erpingham, companion of Henry V at Agincourt. His family is said to have arrived with King William.

Fakenham
Fac(h)enham / Fagan(a)ham / Fagenham / Fangeham / Phacham: King's land. 3 mills, ½ salthouse, flour mill. 200 sheep.
Pretty market town on the River Wensum. John of Gaunt was Lord of the Manor here in the 14th century.
Felbrigg
Felebruge: Roger Bigot and Merton from him.
Felbrigg Hall, 1620, with a fine park probably landscaped by Repton.
Felmingham
Felmi(n)cham: Asford from the king; Roger Bigot; Abbot of Holme before and after 1066. Mill, church.

Felthorpe
Faltorp / Felethor(p) / torp: King's land; Count Alan; Richard from Ralph de Beaufour; Walter Giffard.

Feltwell
Fatwella / Feltwella: King's land, in the charge of William de Noyers; William de Warenne; Abbot of Ely before and after 1066. 2 churches, mill, 2 fisheries.
Fenland; 2 churches, one with Norman side walls and arch.
Fersfield
Ferseuella / Feru(ess)ella: Alsi, King Edward's thane, from the king, in the custody of Godric.
Church with an effigy of Sir Robert de Bois, Lord of the Manor in 1285.
Field Dalling
Dalli(n)ga: King's land; Count Alan; Roger Bigot; Robert de Verly.
Straggling; Manor House Farm.
Filby
Filebey / Phileb(e)y: Thorold from William de Warenne; Stanard from Roger Bigot; Abbot of Holme before and after 1066; William d'Écouis; Rabel the engineer. 10½ salthouses.
On Filby Broad; churchyard with a tombstone to a couple whose combined age was 200.
Fincham
F..ham / P(h)incham: William de Warenne and Hugh and William Brant from him; Hermer de Ferrers; St. Edmund's; Abbot of Ely before and after 1066; Reynald FitzIvo; Ralph Baynard, formerly Aethelgyrth, a free woman. ¼ church. 4 cattle, 175 sheep.
On a Roman road; Moat House with a square moated island, possibly a medieval cattle enclosure.
Fishley
Fiscele: King's alnd, in the custody of Godric; Abbot of Holme; William d'Écouis.
Church with a pre-Conquest tower and Norman doorway.
Flitcham
Flicham / Phlicham / Plic(e)ham: Bishop of Bayeux; William de Warenne; Robert and Ranulf FitzWalter from Roger Bigot. 4 mills, church. 3 oxen.
Remains of Flitcham Abbey; church with Norman arcading.
Flockthorpe
Floc(he)thor(p) / Flokethorp:
Lost.
Flordon
Florenduna: Roger Bigot from Bishop of Bayeux; Count Alan; Roger Bigot; Godric the Steward.
Church with Saxon windows.
Fodderstone
Fo(r)testhorp / Photestorp: Abbot of Ely before and after 1066; Ranulf from Reynald FitzIvo.
Now Fodderstone Gap.
Fordham
Ford(e)ham / Forham / Phor(d)ham: Abbot of Ely; St. Benedict's of Ramsey; Ralph Baynard.
Fenland; on the River Great Ouse cut-off Channel.
Forncett
Foneseta / Forne(s) / seta: Roger Bigot; Bishop Osbern.
Now 2 villages, Forncett St. Mary and St. Peter. Dorothy Wordsworth lived at St. Peter, with her uncle the rector, for 3 years.
Foulden
Fugalduna / Fulenduna: Ribald from Count Alan; William from William de Warenne; Walter Giffard. 2 mills, 2 fisheries.
Common.
Foulsham
Folsa(m) / Folsham: King's land before and after 1066 and Walter Giffard from the king in the custody of Godric. 2 churches, mill. 12 cattle, 400 pigs, 50 goats, 13 sesters of honey.
Small town; moated site.
Foxley
Foxle: Godric from Count Alan. 7 beehives.
Manor Farm; moated site.
Framingham
Fram(m)ingaham: King's land and 2 Burgesses of Norwich from the king; Roger Bigot from Bishop of Bayeux; Roger Bigot. Godric the steward. Church.
Now 2 villages, Framingham Earl, whose church has a Saxon chancel and windows, and a Norman tower, and Framingham Pigot, where the church retains a Norman piscina.
Fransham
Frande(s)ham / Frouuesham: Gilbert from William de Warenne; Ralph de Tosny. 3 mills.
Now 2 villages, Great and Little Fransham.
Freethorpe
Frietorp / Torp: King's land, in the custody of Godric; Bishop William; Rabel the Engineer.
Remote; Broadland. The church has a Squire's pew with a fireplace.
Frenze
Frense / Frisa: Hubert from Robert Malet; St. Edmund's. Mill.
One of the country's smallest churches.
Fring
Frainghe / Frenga / e: Count Eustace; William de Warenne; Bishop William.

Fritton
Fred / Fridetuna / Frie(s)tuna / Frithtuna: Robert Malet and Warin Cook from him; Roger Bigot and Ranulf from him; Robert de Vaux from St. Edmund's; Gifard from Robert FitzCorbucion.
Green; church has a Saxon/Norman tower.
Fulmodeston
Fulmotestuna: Walter from William de Warenne. Church, beehive.
Ruined church.
Fundenhall
Fundahala / ehala: Roger Bigot from Earl Hugh; Roger Bigot and Osbert from him. 9 cattle, 48 goats.

Garboldisham
Berboldesham: King's land, in the custody of Godric.
Some houses built of clay lump, large blocks of unfired clay once common in South Norfolk; sections of the Devil's Dyke nearby.
Garveston
Gerolfestuna / Giro(l)festuna: Hermer de Ferrers.
Moated site.
Gasthorpe
Gadesthorp / Gatesthor(p): King's land, in the custody of Godric; a certain Englishman from St. Edmund's.

Gateley
Catelea: Bishop William; Hugh de Montfort; Ralph from Peter de Valognes.
Church with some Saxon work.
Gayton
Gaituna: William de Warenne and Ralph from him, formerly a free woman, Aelfava; St. Stephen de Caen; Wulfwy from William d'Écouis; Roger from Hugh de Montfort. ½ mill.
Lake.
Gayton Thorpe
T(h)orp: Bishop of Bayeux; Robert from Roger Bigot; Ralph de Tosny. ½ church.
Church with an 11th century tower and Saxon splayed windows.
Gaywood
Gaiuude: Bishop William. Mill, 21 salthouses. 100 sheep.
Part of King's Lynn on the Gaywood River.
Gillingham
Kildincham / Gillingaham: King's land, in the charge of William de Noyers. Church.
By Gillingham Marshes.
Gimingham
Giming(e)ham / Gimingheham: William de Warenne. Church, 4 mills. 30 goats, 7 wild mares.
Church with a watching window over the porch.
Gissing
Gersinga / Gessinga: King's land, in the custody of Godric; William from Robert Malet; Roger Bigot; St. Edmund's and Fulcher from it.
Moated sites; church with a Saxon tower.
Glandford
Glamforda / Glanforda: King's land; Walter Giffard.
Model village built c.1900 by Sir Alfred Jodrell.
Glosthorpe
Glorestorp:
Lost.
Gnatingdon
Nettinghetuna:
Lost.
Godwick
Goduic: Ralph de Tosny.
Ancient village site nearby; a barn; ruined church tower.
Gooderstone
Godestuna: Godric the Steward. 5 mills, fishery.

Gorleston
Gorlestuna: King's land. 3 salthouses. 300 sheep.
Suburb of Great Yarmouth and a seaside resort, also known as Gorleston-on-Sea, with a church on the site of a small wooden church built by Felix, Bishop of Dunwich, in the 17th century.
Great Bircham
Brecham: William d'Écouis and Roger d'Evreux from him; Ralph de Beaufour. Church.
Line of Bronze Age Wessex barrows nearby.
Great Cressingham
Cresincghaham / Cressingaham: Count Alan; Bishop William and Ralph from him; Ralph de Tosny. 4 mils, 3 fisheries, 3 churches.
Ruins of an ancient priory, built in 1545, at Priory Farm.
Great Ellingham
Elincham / Helincham / Heldingham: Warenbold from Hermer de Ferrers. Church. 6 mares with foals, 8 cattle.
Common; moated sites; decorated church.
Great Hockham
Hocham: Roger Bigot. 220 sheep.
Now Great Hockham.
Great Melton
In Duabus Meltinus, Meltuna(na): Godric the steward; Waring from Ranulf Peverel.
All Saints Church has Saxon walling in the chancel and nave, and the Saxon tower of another church stands in the same churchyard.
Great Moulton
Muletuna: Count Alan; Roger Bigot and Mauger from him. Church.
Windmill; church with some Norman features.
Great Ryburgh
Reieborh / Reienburh: William de Warenne and Peter from him; Ralph the Fat from Peter de Valognes. Mill.

Great Snarehill
Snareshella / hul: Roger Bigot; Fulcher the Breton from St. Edmund's. ½ fishery.
Great Snarehill Hill.
Great Snoring
Snaringa: King's land, in the custody of Godric. 2 mills. 180 sheep.
Rectory, 1525, formerly the manor house.
Grensvill
Grenesvill:
Lost.
Gresham
Gersam / Cressam: William de Warenne; Roger Bigot. Mill.
Foundations of Gresham Castle, a fortified manor house and moat, ancestral home of John Gresham, founder of the Royal Exchange in 1566.
Gressenhall
Gressenhala: Wymer from William de Warenne. 3 mills. 11 cattle, 30 goats.
Rural life museum, built in 1777 and once a workhouse.
Grimston
Erimestuna / Grimestuna: Bishop of Bayeux; William de Warenne; Robert de Vaux from Roger Bigot; Berner the Crossbowman. 3 mills, ½ salthouse.
Common; moated site; a Roman villa site.
Griston
Gres / Gristuna: King's land, also in the custody of Godric, formerly a free woman; William de Warenne; Roger Bigot; Ralph Baynard; Osbert from John nephew of Waleran. Church, 10 beehives. 30 pigs, 10 cattle.
The Elizabethan Hall, now a farmhouse, is said to have been the home of the Babes in the Wood, murdered in nearby Wayland, or Wailing Wood. The story dates from Stuart days.
Guestwick
Geg(h)estuiet: Bishop William; Hagni.
Partly Saxon, partly Norman church tower.
Guist
G(r)egeseta / sete: Bishop William; Walter Giffard.
Model village, laid out last century by the family of Thomas Cook and Son.
Gunthorpe
Gunatorp / Gune(s)torp: King's land; Peter de Valognes.
Gunthorpe Hall with an attractive park and lake.
Gunton
Gunetune: Count Alan; Bishop William and William de Noyers from him. 2 mills.

Guton
Gutheketuna: Osbert from Tihel le Breton. Mill. 14 beehives.
Guton Hall; Hall cottages.