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Wærhelm 4

Name

Summary

Wærhelm 4 was a small landowner in east Kent whose single manor of ½ sulung was worth 20 shillings.

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 Kent	Phil. ref. 5,164	Vill Buckwell	DB Spelling Werelm	Holder 1066 Wærhelm 'of Buckwell'	Lord 1066 Edward, king	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Odo, bishop of Bayeux	1086 Subtenant Wadard	Fiscal Value 1.00	1066 Value 1.00	1086 Value 2.00	Confidence A	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

Profile

The name Wærhelm appears only once in DB, holding a small manor at Buckwell, in the North Downs 12 miles up the valley of the Great Stour from Canterbury. The riverine character of the estate is emphasized by its non-arable resources: a mill worth 40d., 10 acres of meadow, and an alder carr (alnetum), one of the handful recorded in DB; alder requires moving water to propagate its seeds and was used as a low-quality substitute when better wood was not available locally (Rackham 2010: 227, 289).

Bibliography

Rackham 2010: Oliver Rackham, Woodlands (London: Collins, 2010)