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Wangford's
Misplaced village Mon 18/12/00
- A Misplaced Suffolk Village
Several years ago it was possible to demonstrate that the "lost"
Domesday settlement of Coclesworth is the present village of Eriswell, whilst
Domesday Eriswell is represented by today's Little Eriswell
. It is now possible to rectify a misunderstanding
about another site In the same hundred of Lackford, the site of Livermere
between today's Brandon and Wangford. By the middle of the thirteenth
century this Livermere had largely become lands of a grange belonging to the
Cistercian abbey of Warden in Bedfordshire, and lands of a holding of the
Premonstratensian abbey of Langley in Norfolk, and had become absorbed
politically into its neighbours. Today's dead-straight boundary between Brandon
and Wangford suggests that it was established in fairly modern times, owing to
some reorganisation ...more