Cratley is a lost village in

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, England. It may have been located close to North Laithes Farm at Kneesall although an alternative site east of Laund Wood has been suggested. Other names for the settlement are Cratela or Creilage. Two field names on the Estate Map of the Liberty of Rufford i.e. (Rufford Estate) in 1637 are given as East and West Credlin. The Village of Cratley was listed as Crastell in the

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as having 22 villeins and 2 bordars, i.e. 22 villagers, 2 smallholders. 4 Ploughlands. 2 Lord's Plough Teams for the Demesne Lands of the Manor, and 9 Men's Plough Teams. Each Plough team had 8 oxen. Total population in 1086 was 24 households (quite large), Total tax paid by all the owners: 2.5 geld According to the

Tax was paid on 26 Acres of Demense Meadow Land, and 0.5 leagues of Woodland

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in 1066: Ulf Fenman. Value to the Lord was £6 in 1066.

Gilbert de Gant Gilbert de Gant (Giselbert de Gand, Ghent, Gaunt) (c. 1040 – 1095) was the son of Ralph, Lord of Aalst near Ghent, and Gisele of Luxembourg, the sister-in-law of Baldwin IV, Count of Flanders. Gilbert de Gant was a kinsman of Matilda of F ...

, who was a Tenant-in-chief of the

capital manor, held directly from the The Crown">Crown A crown is a traditional form of head adornment, or hat, worn by monarchs as a symbol of their power and dignity. A crown is often, by extension, a symbol of the monarch's government or items endorsed by it. The word itself is used, parti ...

. Head of the Manor: Wellow, which makes Cratley a Sub Manor of the Lordship of

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, on 12 July 1147, the Village of Cratley was reduced to a grange Grange may refer to: Buildings * Grange House, Scotland, built in 1564, and demolished in 1906 * Grange Estate, Pennsylvania, built in 1682 * The Grange (Toronto), Toronto, Ontario, built in 1817 * Monastic grange, a farming estate belonging to ...

and the villagers gradually evicted and resettled at Wellow.M.W.Barley in Nottm Medieval Studies, 1 (1957), p.79

References

Deserted medieval villages in Nottinghamshire">Wellow, Nottinghamshire">Wellow.M.W.Barley in Nottm Medieval Studies, 1 (1957), p.79

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