Location: Aldenham / Hertfordshire

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Transaction S124      Offa 7, king of the Mercians, to Westminster, St Peter's 1; grant of 10 hides (cassati) at Aldenham, Herts., in return for 100 mancuses of gold in a bracelet
Transaction S774      King Edgar 11 to Thorney, St Peter's 1 (i.e. Westminster 1 Abbey); confirmation, reciting a bull of Pope John 2, of liberties and of land at Ham (in East Ham), Wennington, Essex; Morden, Surrey; Fanton (Hall) in North Benfleet, Essex; Aldenham, Herts.; Bleccenham and Lothereslege (both lost, in Hendon), Middx; Holwell, Datchworth and Watton-at-Stone, Herts.; Chollington in Eastbourne, Sussex; Staines, with Teddington, Halliford, Feltham and Ashford, Middx.
Transaction S1043      King Edward 15 to Westminster 1 Abbey, First Charter; confirmation of lands, comprising 17.5 hides at Westminster, 20 at Hendon, 5 at Hampstead, 12 hides and 1 uirga at Greenford, 8 hides at Hanwell, 8 at Shepperton, 7 at Sunbury, Middx.; 10 at Aldenham, 4 hides and 1 uirga at Datchworth, 4.5 hides at Watton(-at-Stone), 6.5 at Holwell, Herts.; 2 at Ham, 4 at Wennington, 5 at Kelvedon (?), 4 at Fanton in North Benfleet, Essex; 10 at Morden, Surrey; 2 at Ewell, Kent; 7 at Parham, 3 at Chollington in Eastbourne, 4 at (West) Chiltington, Sussex. (b) Moulsham [granted by Leofcild 2], Kelvedon Hatch (?) [granted by Æthelric 66], Maplestead [granted by Wulfwine 11], Kelvedon, Rayne and Latchingdon [granted by Guthmund 5), Wanstead [granted by Ælfric 131], Leyton [granted by Atsere 3 Swearte], Paglesham [granted by Ingulf 1], Essex; Lessness, Kent [granted by Atsere 4]; Claygate, Surrey [granted by Tosti 3]; Ayot St Lawrence, Herts. [granted by Ælfwine 63]; Denham [granted by Wulfstan 58], a half hide at Amersham and 1 hide at Weedon, Bucks. [granted by Siweard 17]; 2.5 hides at Wormley, Herts. [granted by Leofsige 38 of London].
Event S1122      Writ of King Edward 15 declaring that he has given to Westminster Abbey the land at Aldenham, Herts., as fully and completely as Earl Sihtric 3 held it of the monastery and committed it to Abbot Ælfric 136 and the community, and as Abbot Ordberht 1 held it for the monastery in the days of King Offa 7 and King Cenwulf 3, and as King Edgar 11 in his charter confirmed it to the abbey.
Transaction S1122      Abbot Ælfric 136 to Earl Sihtric 3; lease of the land at Aldenham, Herts..
Possession S1122    Ordberht 1
Transaction S1122      King Edgar 11 to Westminster; confirmation of the land at Aldenhanm, Herts..
Event Bates294      King William 1 notifies Bishop Remigius 1 of Lincoln, William 3 fitzOsbern and all his French and English officials and faithful men of Hertfordshire that he has granted and confirmed to the abbey of Westminster the manor of Aldenham, Herts., which consists of 10 hides, with everything belonging to it as it was held in the time of King Edward 15 and his predecessors, and as it was sworn in King William 1’s time that the abbey had long held it.
Possession GDB  135 (Hertfordshire 9:4) Westminster, St Peter's 1 Property recorded in Domesday Book: 9 hides in Aldenham, Hertfordshire (in 1086)
Possession GDB  136 (Hertfordshire 10:17) Blaca 1 Property recorded in Domesday Book: 1 hide in Aldenham, Hertfordshire (in 1066)
Possession GDB  136 (Hertfordshire 10:17) St Albans 1 Property recorded in Domesday Book: 1 hide in Aldenham, Hertfordshire (in 1086)
Possession GDB  135 (Hertfordshire 9:4) Westminster, St Peter's 1 Property recorded in Domesday Book: 9 hides in Aldenham, Hertfordshire (in 1066)
Possession GDB  135 (Hertfordshire 9:4) Edwin 38 Property recorded in Domesday Book: 9 hides in Aldenham, Hertfordshire (in 1066)