Kimbolton, Cambridgeshire
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| Kimbolton shown within Cambridgeshire | |
| Population | 1,477 (Including Stonely2011 Census) |
| OS grid reference | TL102681 |
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| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Huntingdon |
| Postcode district | PE28 |
| Police | Cambridgeshire |
| Fire | Cambridgeshire |
| Ambulance | East of England |
| EU Parliament | East of England |
Kimbolton is a village and civil parish in Cambridgeshire, England. Kimbolton lies approximately 9 miles (14 km) west of Huntingdon and 14 miles (23 km) north of Bedford. Kimbolton is situated within Huntingdonshire which is a non-metropolitan district of Cambridgeshire as well as being a historic county of England. The parish includes the hamlet of Stonely.
Catherine of Aragon, after her divorce from Henry VIII, died at Kimbolton Castle in 1536.
Kimbolton, and the lands of its soke, comprised the only estate of King Harold in Huntingdonshire. It is believed that Harold had a hunting lodge nearby.
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.
Kimbolton was listed in the Domesday Book in the Hundred of Leightonstone in Huntingdonshire; the name of the settlement was written as Chenebaltone and Kenebaltone in the Domesday Book. In 1086 there was just one manor at Kimbolton; the annual rent paid to the lord of the manor in 1066 had been £7 and the rent had increased to £17.2 in 1086.
The Domesday Book does not explicitly detail the population of a place but it records that there were 121 households at Kimbolton. 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 Kimbolton in 1086 is that it was within the range of 423 and 605 people.
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