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Loveden Wapentake
Wapentake is the Danelaw equivalent to the “Hundred” in Anglo-Saxon England and is a political district, a collection of local parishes, the main subdivisions of a county. The court is likely to have met monthly, at Loveden Hill. The word Wapentake means “show your weapon”. The idea was that all in favour of a resolution would raise their sword etc. to show agreement.
The Domesday Book (1086) lists the following places in Loveden Wapentake:
- Brandon
- [Brant] Broughton
- Caythorpe
- Claypole
- Foston
- Holme – this village (just south of Sutton) is now abandoned, but in Saxon times it included Beckingham and Stragglethorpe.
- Fulbeck
- Leadenham
- Hougham
- [Long] Bennington
- Hough [-on-the-Hill]
- Carlton [Scroop]
- Marston
- Stubton
- Westborough
- [Dry] Doddington
- Gelston
- Frieston
- Normanton
- [West] Willoughby
