Bythorn
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 Bythorn village green, with cottages and church |
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| Bythorn shown within Cambridgeshire | |
| OS grid reference | TL066754 |
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| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Huntingdon |
| Postcode district | PE28 |
| EU Parliament | East of England |
Bythorn is a village in Cambridgeshire, England. Bythorn lies approximately 11 miles (18 km) west of Huntingdon near Molesworth. Bythorn is in the civil parish of Bythorn and Keyston (where the population is included). Bythorn is situated within Huntingdonshire which is a non-metropolitan district of Cambridgeshire as well as being a historic county of England.
The parish church of St Lawrence is not mentioned in the Domesday Book, but a stone church was evident on the site in the 12th century and some of the stones of this original structure are built into the existing walls.
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.
Bythorn was listed in the Domesday Book in the Hundred of Leightonstone in Huntingdonshire; the name of the settlement was written as Bierne in the Domesday Book. In 1086 there was just one manor at Bythorn; the annual rent paid to the lord of the manor in 1066 had been £5 and the rent had increased to £5.5 in 1086.
The Domesday Book does not explicitly detail the population of a place but it records that there was 19 households at Bythorn. 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 Bythorn in 1086 is that it was within the range of 66 and 95 people.
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