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Ifing 4

Name

Summary

Ifing 4 had a holding in east Devon TRE assessed for 1 virgate and with a value of 5s.

Distribution map of property and lordships associated with this name in DB

List of property and lordships associated with this name in DB

Holder 1066

Shire	Phil. ref.	Vill	DB Spelling	Holder 1066	Lord 1066	Tenant-in-Chief 1086	1086 Subtenant	Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value	Conf.	Show on Map
Shire Devon	Phil. ref. 16,167	Vill Alreford	DB Spelling Juin	Holder 1066 Ifing 'of Alreford'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Baldwin the sheriff	1086 Subtenant Ranulph 'the man of Baldwin the sheriff'	Fiscal Value 0.25	1066 Value 0.25	1086 Value 0.25	Confidence -	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

Profile

The precise location of Ifing 4’s estate at Alreford is not known but the order of entries in Exon points to the area of Axminster and Musbury in east Devon (Gover et al. 1931-2: 2 634; Thorn and Thorn 1985: Notes to 16,167); a ford in the vicinity of what was later Newenham Abbey is the most likely referent and this location has been adopted here for mapping purposes.

In any event, Alreford lay nearly 50 miles from any other estate held TRE by anyone else called Ifing and it is highly unlikely that such a tiny estate would be an outlier of another estate at such a distance. Despite the rarity of the name Ifing, therefore, it is probable that this was Ifing 4’s only estate.

Bibliography

Gover et al. 1931-2: J. E. B. Gover, A. Mawer and F. M. Stenton, The Place-Names of Devon, 2 vols. (Cambridge, 1931-2)

Thorn and Thorn 1985: Domesday Book 9: Devon, ed. C. Thorn and F. Thorn (Chichester, 1985)