Above: Culbone Church © Simon Kidner
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Home Page last updated 11th September 2008
The name 'Kidner' is derived from a place, Chetenore, on the North Somerset coast of England. It is now called Culbone. This is the 1086 description in Domesday:
"Drogo also holds Chetenore from the Bishop. In the time of King Edward it paid tax for 1 hide and 1 virgate. Land for 2 ploughs. 2 villagers, 1 smallholder and 1 slave with 1 plough. Pasture, 50 acres; woodland, 100 acres. Value 15s; when the Bishop acquired it, 5s. Osmund held it in the time of King Edward [with Wilmersham]."