Akethorpe, or Akethorp, was an English village thought to have been located in what is now part of the
Suffolk
Suffolk () is a ceremonial county of England in East Anglia. It borders Norfolk to the north, Cambridgeshire to the west and Essex to the south; the North Sea lies to the east. The county town is Ipswich; other important towns include L ...
town of
Lowestoft.
[Akethorpe]
Domesday Book Online. Retrieved 2011-04-21.[Akethorpe]
Open Domesday. Retrieved 2021-02-19. The village was described in the
Domesday Book
Domesday Book () – the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book" – is a manuscript record of the "Great Survey" of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 by order of King William I, known as William the Conqueror. The manusc ...
as being home to four households in the
Hundred of Lothingland. It formed part of the
King's holding in 1086, having been held by Aelmer the Priest in 1066.
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The manor of Akethorp was purchased by Magdalen College, Oxford in 1478. Earthworks though to be part of the manorial boundary have been surveyed in the area.Monument record LWT 028 - Akethorp Manor Bank]
Suffolk Heritage Explorer, Suffolk County Council. Retrieved 2021-02-19. A road in modern Lowestoft is named Akethorpe Way.
See also
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Abandoned village
An abandoned village is a village that has, for some reason, been deserted. In many countries, and throughout history, thousands of villages have been deserted for a variety of causes. Abandonment of villages is often related to epidemic, f ...
References
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Former populated places in Suffolk
Lowestoft