![]() The Domesday Book uses a number of units of measure for areas of land that are now unfamiliar terms, such as hides and ploughlands. Using these figures then an estimate of the population of Water Newton in 1086 is that it was within the range of 77 and 110 people. 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. The Domesday Book does not explicitly detail the population of a place but it records that there were 22 households at Water Newton. In 1086 there was just one manor at Water Newton the annual rent paid to the lord of the manor in 1066 had been £5 and the rent had increased to £7 in 1086. ![]() Water Newton was listed in the Domesday Book in the Hundred of Normancross in Huntingdonshire the name of the settlement was written as Newtone in 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. The survey took place in 1086 and the results were recorded in what, since the 12th century, has become known as the Domesday Book. 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. Due to the importance of this find, it is now in the British Museum, with replicas at Peterborough Museum. The silver plates and bowls, votive tokens engraved and embossed with the labarum (the chi-rho cross), and an unengraved standing two-handled cup of the form ( cantharus) later used as chalices comprise the earliest group of Christian liturgical silver yet found in the Roman Empire. They were probably buried by an inhabitant of the nearby Roman fortified garrison town of Durobrivae. ![]() History Roman archaeology Main articles: Durobrivae and Water Newton Treasureĭuring ploughing in February 1975, a hoard of 4th-century Roman silver was discovered, which is known as the ' Water Newton Treasure'. The River Nene marks the boundary between Huntingdonshire and the City of Peterborough. The village is sandwiched between the River Nene to the north and the A1 trunk road to the south. As the population of the village was 88 only at the 2011 Census it is included in the civil parish of Chesterton. Water Newton is situated within Huntingdonshire which is a non-metropolitan district of Cambridgeshire as well as being a historic county of England. Water Newton lies approximately 5 miles (8 km) west of Peterborough. Water Newton is a village and civil parish in Cambridgeshire, England.
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