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MEDIEVAL (PRE-1290) JEWISH COMMUNITIES
IN ENGLAND & WALES

Page created: 22 April 2005
Latest revision: 29 October 2021

Listed by County
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Counties referred to below are not necessarily the counties in which the towns are now located, but are the historic shires (or counties) in which the relevant towns were situated prior to the reorganization of local government in 1965 and 1974. Although in many cases they are the counties in which the towns were situated during the medieval period, this is not necessarily the case (especially in Wales).

ENGLAND

Bedfordshire
      BEDFORD^{1, 5}
      Dunstable

Berkshire
      Abingdon
      Hungerford
      Newbury⁶
      Reading
      Sonning
      Speenhamland ⁶, Newbury
      Windsor ⁶
      WALLINGFORD^{1,
6}

Buckinghamshire
     Buckingham
      Newport (Newport Pagnell)
      Wycombe ⁶

Cambridgeshire
      Bottisham
      CAMBRIDGE^{1,
6}

Derbyshire
      Derby⁶
      Thornbridge ³

Devon
      EXETER ^{1,
5}
      Honiton

Dorset
      Dorchester

Essex
      COLCHESTER ^{1,
5}
      Finchingfield
      Rayleigh

Gloucestershire
      BRISTOL ^{1, 5}
      GLOUCESTER¹, ⁶
      Tewkesbury

Hampshire
      Basingstoke
      Romsey ⁶
      Southampton⁶
      WINCHESTER^{1,
5}

Herefordshire
      HEREFORD ^{1,
5}
      Weobley

Hertfordshire
      BERKHAMSTED¹
      Hertford
      Hitchin
      Royston

Huntingdonshire
      HUNTINGDON^{1,
5}

Kent
      Berham (now Barham)
      CANTERBURY^1,⁵
      Faversham
      Gillingham
      Hatcham (now New Cross)
      Malling
      Ospringe
      Rochester
      Sandwich
      Shoreham
      Sittingbourne

Lancashire
      Lancaster

ENGLAND (cont.)

Leicestershire
      Leicester⁶

Lincolnshire
      Grimsby
      LINCOLN^{1,
5}
      STAMFORD ^{1, 5}

London
      Camden³
      LONDON^{1, 5}
      Southwark

Norfolk
      Conisford
      Lynn (now King’s Lynn)
      Newland, Lynn
      NORWICH^{1,
5}
      Thetford
      Yarmouth

Northamptonshire
      NORTHAMPTON ^{1,
5}

Northumberland
      Newcastle upon Tyne⁶

Nottinghamshire
      NOTTINGHAM^{1,
5}

Middlesex
      Brentford
      Hampton⁴
      Hendon

Oxfordshire
      Burford
      Chesterton⁴
      OXFORD^{1, 5}

Shropshire
      Bridgnorth
      Ludlow

Somerset
     Bath
     Bridgwater
     Ilchester
     Wells

Staffordshire
      Colton ⁴

Suffolk
      Bungay
      Bury St. Edmunds ⁶
      Clare
      Dunwich
      Eye
      IPSWICH^{1,
5}
      Newmarket
      SUDBURY^{1,
6}

Surrey
      Dorking
      Guildford
      Kingston⁴ (now
        Kingston-upon-Thames)
      Merton⁴

Sussex
      Arundel
      Bosham
      Chichester
      Hastings
      Lewes
      Rye
      Seaford
      Winchelsea⁶

ENGLAND (cont.)

Warwickshire
      Coventry
      WARWICK ^{1, 6}

Westmorland
      Kendal
Wiltshire
     Chippenham
      Cricklade
      DEVIZES^{1, 5}
      MARLBOROUGH^{1, 6}
      WILTON ^{1, 5}

Worcester
      Evesham
      WORCESTER ^{1, 6}

Yorkshire
      Beverley
      Doncaster
      Knaresborough
      Pontefract
      YORK¹

WALES

Anglesey
      Beaumaris⁶
      Newborough⁶
Caernarvonshire
      Caernarvon ⁶
      Conway⁶
      Criccieth ⁶
Flintshire
     Flint⁶
      Rhuddlan ⁶
Merioneth
      Bala ⁶
      Harlech⁶
Monmouthshire
      Caerleon
      Chepstow
Pembrokeshire
      Haverford

Not Identified²

      Berdefield
      Bradesworth
      Eden
      Frenningsham
      Fressinton
      Graham
      Holm
      Pinkeneye
      Rising

Notes
¹ Appearing in capital letters. Towns with archae (official registers of Jewish financial transactions, created after 1194).
² Although these communities or places of settlement were listed by Cecil Roth in "A History of the Jews in England", their present day location has not been identified.
³ These communities or places of settlement were listed by Cecil Roth in "A History of the Jews in England", but their location is by no means certain, although no reasonable alternative location could be identified.
⁴ There are several towns or villages in England or Wales with this name. However, the location given is most probably the correct location of the Jewish community or place of settlement.
⁵ Towns from which Jews were expelled in 1290.
⁶ Towns, including some with archae, from which Jews had been excluded prior to 1290.

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MEDIEVAL (PRE-1290) JEWISH COMMUNITIES IN ENGLAND & WALES

MEDIEVAL (PRE-1290) JEWISH COMMUNITIES
IN ENGLAND & WALES