Stratford sub Castle - name origins & spelling variations
revised Jan 2022

Information about the Hundred of Underditch, is at the bottom of this webpage, below the viewer.

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extract from a 1571 map

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extract from
a 1646 map

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extract from
a 1775 map

Possibilities for the FORD in Stratford include:

  • That from the Roman settlement around Castle Keep crossing near Tadpole Island in a line with Folly Lane, probably the oldest of these options and the southernmost;

  • Somewhere around the Avon Bridge and Dean’s Farm as part of the village of Stratford Dean and as the northernmost of these options;

  • Between these two, from Mill Lane (Stinkpot Alley) and by the mill(s).

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Most of the village for most of the post Domesday years has been in the Hundred of Underditch. Its spelling too has been fluid.

 

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Kerry O'Connor (revised Jan 2022)

Further Information

 

A 1662 map of the Underditch Hundred is on this webpage.