See also Calne, Warwickshire & Wiltshire.
Most of the places listed in the documents section are in Warwickshire which was home to a prosperous textile trade. Agriculture was the primary source of income but textiles, weaving thread and cloth, was next. Cloth was England's primary export industry by the 15th century and through the middle 18th century, wool, linen and hemp were the most popular fabrics. Originally a cottage industry, villagers produced clothing for themselves and their neighbors from wool, flax and cotton, accompanied by the raising of sheep and cotton, but the industry moved to the cities and Coventry, in Warwickshire 1, became an important center for textile production.
By the 16th century, no evidence of the Cloude family is found in Warwickshire but families by the same name are in Wiltshire. 2 "A History of Wiltshire County" 3 indicates that textile production was an important part of the economy of Wiltshire, just as it was in Warwickshire. No evidence has been found to connect the Cloudes of Warwickshire and those of Wiltshire, but it appears the Cloude family moved from Warwickshire to Wiltshire somewhere between the 14th and 15th centuries.
The earliest Cloud person in our database is William Cloude (1502-1544) 4. His residence is not known, but his sons lived in Devizes, Wiltshire, England and his grandchildren lived in Calne, a few miles north of Devizes. (Stoneleigh, mentioned in the documents, is about 90 miles north of Devizes.) He is almost surely related to the medieval Cloudes, but the connection has not been found. Please Contact Us if you have information about this.
Map source: Mediaeval England & Wales.
These location names are found in the Documents. Some locations may have been missed or omitted or may have alternate spellings – please use the Contact form to submit additional information.
- Bathekynton (Is this Bagington or Bath? Baginton is in county Warwick; Bath is in Somerset, about 30 miles west of Devizes.)
(Baginton, per the Domesday Book, is in Stoneleigh, Warwickshire) - Bistoneshull
- Cameley is in the Chew Valley in Somerset. See its record in the Domesday Book.
- Canley was originally in the Stoneleigh parish, currently in Coventry and home to students attending the University of Warwick. In the Domesday Book it is near Stoneleigh, Warwickshire.
- Cloude in the Domesday Book is near Shirwell, Devon.
- Cloude Bridge in the Domesday Book is near Chewton, Somerset
- Coventr' (Coventry is in Stoneleigh, Warwickshire)
- Crowemeresthorn
- Cryefelde
- Cryfield is in Stoneleigh, Warwickshire
- Daddeleiefeld on le Medueforlong' (the land of Richard de Daddeleye)
- Dolesforde
- Dolsforde in Canley
- Finbury in Stoneleigh
- Finham is in Stoneleigh, Warwickshire
- Holelond
- Knavecastle in the Domesday Book is near Offlow, Staffordshire.
- La Rouhtmede
- Langeb
- Leigh of Stoneleigh (could refer to "Baron Leigh of Stoneleigh").
- Loukerslowefeld, Canley
- Rounhull in the Domesday Book is near Triverton, Devon.
- Shipton Moyne
- Stivischal'
- Stoneleghe
- Stoneleigh, Canley is in Warwickshire and was the home of Baron (Sir Thomas) Leigh.
- Stoneleigh, Fletchampstead. In the Domesday Book it is near Stoneleigh, Warwickshire.
- Stoneleigh, Flicchampstede. In the Domesday Book it is near Finchampstead, Charlston, Berkshire.
- Stoneleigh, Hurst
- Stonlee
- Styvechale
- Stonleye
- Temple Cloud
- the Cloud
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Stoneleigh
See the Stoneleigh Village web site Stoneleigh History which states "Many trades would have been practised in Stoneleigh during the Middle Ages; there were at least six fulling mills in the area for processing cloth for the merchants of Coventry." 5.
The Burton Green blog has the map below of places in Warwickshire that are mentioned in the Domesday Book, and the boundaries of the Hundreds. 6
Survey & map of Stoneleigh by John Goodwine in 1597 * copyright George Demidowicz
Source: Stareton History 7
1749 Thomas Wilkes's Map of Stoneleigh copyright Stoneleigh Abbey Ltd (SBTRO,DR 671/24)
Source: Stareton History 8