3.1.2.2 Crowland Grange The only medieval manor site to be securely located is the Crowland Grange. In about 1720 Bridges records that Wellingborough comprised 89.5 yardlands. According to the 1320 survey of Crowland manor 50 virgates in the manor were held by tenants, while about 480 acres was in demesne, which accords well with Bridges' comment that in ‘Belchier’s time’ that 15 yardlands lay in demesne.34 The Crowland manor therefore probably represented about 75% of all the 30 NN&Q, IV, 145-9. 31
NRO, FH296. 32
Calendar of Patent Rolls, 1392, 75. 33
NN&Q, VI, 156-164; Salzman, 1937, 136. 34
Bridges, 1791, 2, p.149.