Bodney
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Bodney is a village in Norfolk
, England
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Bodney is recorded in the Domesday Book
as Bredenaia. After the Norman Conquest it was held by the de Montfort family. In the fourteenth century Edmund Oldhall (died 1417), father of the statesman Sir William Oldhall, was lord of the manor of Bodney and it passed in turn to William, who sold it to the Priory of Thetford
. At the Dissolution of the Monasteries
it became Crown property and was granted to the Duke of Norfolk
.
Norfolk
Norfolk is a low-lying county in the East of England. It has borders with Lincolnshire to the west, Cambridgeshire to the west and southwest and Suffolk to the south. Its northern and eastern boundaries are the North Sea coast and to the north-west the county is bordered by The Wash. The county...
, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
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Bodney is recorded in the Domesday Book
Domesday Book
Domesday Book , now held at The National Archives, Kew, Richmond upon Thames in South West London, is the record of the great survey of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086...
as Bredenaia. After the Norman Conquest it was held by the de Montfort family. In the fourteenth century Edmund Oldhall (died 1417), father of the statesman Sir William Oldhall, was lord of the manor of Bodney and it passed in turn to William, who sold it to the Priory of Thetford
Thetford
Thetford is a market town and civil parish in the Breckland district of Norfolk, England. It is on the A11 road between Norwich and London, just south of Thetford Forest. The civil parish, covering an area of , has a population of 21,588.-History:...
. At the Dissolution of the Monasteries
Dissolution of the Monasteries
The Dissolution of the Monasteries, sometimes referred to as the Suppression of the Monasteries, was the set of administrative and legal processes between 1536 and 1541 by which Henry VIII disbanded monasteries, priories, convents and friaries in England, Wales and Ireland; appropriated their...
it became Crown property and was granted to the Duke of Norfolk
Duke of Norfolk
The Duke of Norfolk is the premier duke in the peerage of England, and also, as Earl of Arundel, the premier earl. The Duke of Norfolk is, moreover, the Earl Marshal and hereditary Marshal of England. The seat of the Duke of Norfolk is Arundel Castle in Sussex, although the title refers to the...
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