Cadenham Manor

There has been a settlement here for over nine hundred years, with the first recorded mention of Cadenham in the Domesday Book of 1086. The estate is described at that time as belonging to Earl Hugh and held by one William from him, consisting of land for two ploughs, meadows and woodland, with two slaves and eight smallholders. It is likely that people were settled here for some time before that, as the name Cadenham is of Anglo-Saxon derivation, meaning Cada’ s ham or homestead. You can see the same name locally in Catcomb Wood to the east and the small stream Cade Burna that runs from Catcomb into the River Avon in Tytherton Lucas. A good supply of spring-fed water and soils well-suited to pasture were probably what originally made the site attractive.