Southoe
| Southoe | |
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 St Leonard's church |
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 Southoe
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| Southoe shown within Cambridgeshire | |
| OS grid reference | TL194628 |
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| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | St Neots |
| Postcode district | PE19 |
| Dialling code | 01480 |
| Police | Cambridgeshire |
| Fire | Cambridgeshire |
| Ambulance | East of England |
| EU Parliament | East of England |
| UK Parliament | |
Southoe is a small village in Cambridgeshire, England. Southoe lies approximately 6 miles (10 km) south-west of Huntingdon on the A1. Southoe is in the civil parish of Southoe and Midloe. Southoe is situated within Huntingdonshire which is a non-metropolitan district of Cambridgeshire as well as being a historic county of England. The population of the village is included in the civil parish of Little Paxton.
The church is central in the village and the south doorway contains parts that are of Norman origin.
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.
Southoe was listed in the Domesday Book in the Hundred of Toseland in Huntingdonshire; the name of the settlement was written as Sutham in the Domesday Book. In 1086 there were two manors at Southoe; the annual rent paid to the lords of the manors in 1066 had been £7 and the rent had fallen to £4.5 in 1086.
The Domesday Book does not explicitly detail the population of a place but it records that there were 16 households at Southoe. 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 Southoe in 1086 is that it was within the range of 56 and 80 people.
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