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Summary

Twitchen was tuichel in domesday. It was held by alured d'epaignes. Before the conquest it was held by bridewold (reichel).

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SS64SW/53

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• FARMSTEAD (VIII to Late Medieval - 701 AD to 1539 AD (Between))

Full description

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV242.

Twitchen was tuichel in domesday. It was held by alured d'epaignes. Before the conquest it was held by bridewold (reichel).

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV92346.

Reichel, o. J. /hundreds of devon/(1928-1938)76,404,461,465,491,522,531/the hundred of shirwell in early times.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV92347.

Gover, j. E. B. + mawer, a. + stenton, f. M. /the place-names of devon/(1931)57.

Gover, J. E. B. + Mawer, A. + Stenton, F. M., 1931, The Place-Names of Devon: Part One (Monograph). SDV1312.

Twitchen first appears in the domesday book of 1086. It is mentioned again in the assizes of 1281 as twychene and as titchin in the lay subsidy rolls of 1330. This is the old english twicene 'crossways', meeting of two ways. Two tracks meet at the farm (gover et al).

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments: none recorded

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events: none recorded

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