Brington, Cambridgeshire
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| Brington shown within Cambridgeshire | |
| OS grid reference | TL084758 |
| • London | 60 miles (97 km) |
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| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Huntingdon |
| Postcode district | PE28 |
| Dialling code | 01832 |
| Police | Cambridgeshire |
| Fire | Cambridgeshire |
| Ambulance | East of England |
| EU Parliament | East of England |
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Brington is a village in Cambridgeshire, England. Brington lies approximately 9 miles (14 km) north-west of Huntingdon. Brington is in the civil parish of Brington and Molesworth. Brington is situated within Huntingdonshire which is a non-metropolitan district of Cambridgeshire as well as being a historic county of England.
The neighbouring village of Molesworth is 0.7 miles (1.1 km) from Brington. The parish covers an area of 2,842 acres (1,150 hectares). Just to the north of Brington and within the civil parish is RAF Molesworth.
In 1085 William the Conqueror ordered that a survey should be carried out across his kingdom to discover who owned which parts and what it was worth. The survey took place in 1086 and the results were recorded in what, since the 12th century, has become known as the Domesday Book. Starting with the king himself, for each landholder within a county there is a list of their estates or manors; and, for each manor, there is a summary of the resources of the manor, the amount of annual rent that was collected by the lord of the manor both in 1066 and in 1086, together with the taxable value.
Brington was listed in the Domesday Book in the Hundred of Leightonstone in Huntingdonshire; the name of the settlement was written as Breninctune in the Domesday Book. In 1086 there was just one manor at Brington; the annual rent paid to the lord of the manor in 1066 had been £4 and the rent was the same in 1086.
The Domesday Book does not explicitly detail the population of a place but it records that there was 14 households at Brington. There is no consensus about the average size of a household at that time; estimates range from 3.5 to 5.0 people per household. Using these figures then an estimate of the population of Brington in 1086 is that it was within the range of 49 and 70 people.
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