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Some of them, paying rent on twelve hagae (town houses) were presumably freemen. The population owned 25 ploughs (and their teams) for cultivating the land, but there was also 147 acres of meadow, and woodland that could support some sixty pigs. There were two mills and the church had two priests.
- Prehistoric Settlement
- The Roman Occupation
- The Saxons
- Domesday
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The first known human settlement in the area occurred about ten thousand years ago during the Mesolithic Period, when a village of light temporary shelters was erected on a pine covered gravel bluff near the modern sewage works on Lower Way Lane. The villagers, who were seminomadic hunters and fishers, occupied the site periodically for at least th...
During the second or third century AD there is evidence of settlement in the area of Henwick Lane and Roman Way. Excavations of the site were carried out nearly with foundations of buildings; pottery, tiles, household implements and coins being unearthed.
It is supposed that at this time a Saxon chief called Tace, or possibly Tac or Tec, led his men up the navigable rivers Thames and Kennet as far as the ruined roman bridge. Here they probably disembarked and move some distance to the northwest where they erected a large village which they called Taceham (the village of tace) on the site of the mode...
Thatcham is described in the Domesday survey as having thirty-five virgates and twelve borders, with sufficient arable land for twenty-five ploughs. In addition there were two mills, one hundred and forty seven acres of meadow (pasture) and a wood giving pannage for sixty pigs. There was a church and two clergymen, and twelve hagae (the houses or c...
Proser, A. W., Thatcham through the ages, Occasional Paper Number 2, Thatcham Historical Society: Thatcham, 1979
Thatcham is described in the survey as having thirty-five virgates and twelve borders, with sufficient arable land for twenty-five ploughs. In addition there were two mills, one hundred and forty seven acres of meadow (pasture) and a wood giving pannage for sixty pigs. There was a church and two clergymen, and twelve hagae (the houses or closes ...
By the time of the Domesday Book (1086), Thatcham had 12 ‘hagae’ (enclosures, usually with houses). The settlement was centred on The Broadway Green with burgage plots also laid out on the London–Bath road; around 250 people lived in the area at that time. Thatcham was at the peak of its importance in the 14th century.
By the time of the Domesday Book (1086), Thatcham had twelve ‘hagae’ (an enclosure usually including a house), which are mentioned in the survey. By the medieval period, when the borough was created, the town was centred on the Broadway with burgage plots also laid out on the London-Bath Road. There was little development south of The Broadway.
Nov 11, 2021 · Thatcham is indeed an ancient settlement, with archaeological finds covering most periods of history, from the Palaeolithic (Old Stone Age) over 12,000 years ago right up to the present day. One of the best preserved Mesolithic (Middle Stone Age, c.8500BC – 4000BC) sites in the country was unearthed in Thatcham; its people at that time were ...
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