Word: opeford
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...authors (aged n to 14) had to use all the tricks of the scholar's trade to research and write it. They conned old documents, interviewed local authorities, counted everything from pigs to letter boxes. They found that Offord had also been known as Upeford, Opeford, Uppe-ford, Oppeford, Upford, Hupford and Up-pord. In the Domesday Book it was Uf-ford. One Arnulf de Hesding owned ten hides (1,000 acres) at Cluny Manor, and the Countess Judith owned three at Darcy Manor. A restored Cluny Manor still stands (Oliver Cromwell slept there), and some old Offonians still...
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