Open Domesday
by Anna Powell-Smith

Name: Alwin the reeve

This landowner is associated with 2 places before the Conquest; 6 after the Conquest. (Note that the same name is not necessarily the same person.)

Before the Conquest

Lord in 1066:

  • Sawtry, Normancross, Huntingdonshire
  • Sutton, Weneslawe, Bedfordshire

After the Conquest

Tenant-in-chief in 1086:

Tenants-in-chief held land directly from the Crown.

  • Beeston, Wichestanestou, Bedfordshire
  • Edworth, Biggleswade, Bedfordshire
  • Holme, Biggleswade, Bedfordshire
  • Sutton, Weneslawe, Bedfordshire
  • Tempsford, Biggleswade, Bedfordshire

Lord in 1086:

The immediate lord over the peasants after the Conquest, who paid tax to the tenant-in-chief.