g$0 fINNINGTON. 



OTHER TOWNSHIPS IN THE PARISH AND 

 MANOR OF SINNJNGTON. 



Little Edstone is a township in the parish of Sin- 

 nington, and was at the conquest amongst the lands 

 assigned to Berenger de Todeni, as appears from 

 the Domesday record : 



<e In parva Edestun, (little Edstone,) Torbrand 

 " had three carucates to be taxed. Land to two 

 " ploughs. Berenger now has it, and it is waste. 

 ' Wood pasture two quarentens long, and one 

 " broad. The whole manor half a mile long, and 

 w half broad. Value in king Edward's time ten 



shillings. " 



Bawdwen's Domesday, p. 121. 



Torbrand the saxon, was a man of great proper- 

 ty in these parts, at the time of the conquest ; and 

 Berenger de Todeni held still more extensive poss- 

 essions at Edstone, Kirkby-M oorside, Lestingham, 

 Spaunton, Sinnington, Hindreskelf, now Castle* 

 Howard, Terrington, &c., and was the son of that 

 Robert de Todeni, who built Belvoir castle, the 

 present seat of the dukes of Rutland, to whom it 

 came from the Lords Ros, ofHelmsley, Robert de 

 Kos having married Isabel de Albini, the heiress of 

 the Todenis. Vide account ofHelmsley. 



Marton,* a township in the parish of Sinning- 



* Marton signifies Marsh-town ; from mare, a marsh ; 

 and ton, town. The propriety of the name is ev.'nced 

 even at the present day : as the lands around, and tke 

 village street itself, are not unfrequently laid under wa- 

 ter during the winter ; from the rapid rising of the waters 

 of the Seven. What then must have been the case whca 

 there was no embankments to confine the waters ? 



