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- Didderston (Medieval Latin: Dirdreston, also referred to in Late Latin as Vilfaraesdun, Old English: Ƿilfaresdún), was a medieval manor located in Melsonby Parish, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom. It was recorded in Domesday as Dirdreston Grange, and has since been identified as being located around Diddersley Hill, and Low Grange and High Grange farms. Didderston has a long history spanning potentially from as early as 651 A.D. until the 17th century. Saint Bede the Venerable described the death of King Oswine in 651 and wrote about a place called "Wilfaresdun, that is, Wilfar's Hill, which is almost ten miles distant from the village called Cataract towards the north-west. He himself [King Oswin], with only one trusty soldier, whose name was Tonhere, withdrew and lay concealed in the house of Earl Hunwald, whom he imagined to be his most assured friend. But, alas! it was otherwise; for the earl betrayed him, and Oswy, in a detestable manner, by the hands of his commander, Ethilwin, slew him..." In the text given to us by Bede: "Remisit exercitum quem congregaverat, ac singulos domum redire praecepit, a loco qui vocatur Vilfaraesdun, id est Mons Vilfari, et set a vico Cataractone decem ferme millibus passum contra solistitialem occasum secretus: divertitque ipse cum uno tantum milite sibi fidelissimo, nomine Tondheri, celandus in domo comitis Hunualdi, quem etiam ipsum sibi amicissimum autumabat. Sed, heu, proh dolor! longe aliter erat: nam ab eodem comite proditum eum Osuiu, eum praefato ipsius milite per praefectum suum Ediluinum detestanda omnibus morte interfecit. Quod factum est die decima tertia Kalendarum Septembrium, anno regni eius nono, in loco qui dicitur Ingetlingum." Understanding this to describe a prominent hill located ten Roman miles (i.e. about 9 imperial miles along the old Roman road) northwest of Catterick, then we are left with one possible location for Wilfar's Hill: Diddersley Hill. Apart from this 7th century reference to Didderston's possible history, at least a part of Didderston manor had been well documented as a grange of Jervaulx Cistercian Abbey at least as early as the 13th century and was known to have been one of the manors belonging to Thorfin of Ravensworth, the "horse thegn to the Earl of Northumbria" during the reign of Edward the Confessor. This fact further supports the idea that Didderston was indeed once known as Wilfar's Hill, since Ravensworth is only about 3 miles from Wilfar's Hill (i.e. Diddersley Hill). Thorfin is the earliest known Lord of the Manor of Didderston from whom a continuous line of succession can be traced, and thus he is considered the first lord. (en)
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- The Yorkshire Archaeological Journal, Volume 13, p. 534 (en)
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- In Malsenebi and Dirdreston, a berewick, for geld, eleven carucates, and ten ploughs may be [there]. Torfin had one manor there; now, Bodin has one plough there, and fifteen villanes and three bordars with seven ploughs. A church is there, and a priest. The whole, one leuga in length and one in breadth. T. R. E., it was worth forty shillings; now, thirty shillings.
In this vill there are four caucates for geld, of which the soke belongs to Ghellinges. (en)
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- Domesday Book for Yorkshire (en)
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- Didderston (Medieval Latin: Dirdreston, also referred to in Late Latin as Vilfaraesdun, Old English: Ƿilfaresdún), was a medieval manor located in Melsonby Parish, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom. It was recorded in Domesday as Dirdreston Grange, and has since been identified as being located around Diddersley Hill, and Low Grange and High Grange farms. Didderston has a long history spanning potentially from as early as 651 A.D. until the 17th century. (en)
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- Didderston (en)
- Grange Castle (en)
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