sentences:  The parish of Dunkerton was part of the Wellow Hundred.It was called "Duncretone" in the Domesday Survey, and had earlier been held by a thegn named Alwold "the bald" in the reign of Edward the Confessor, who was possibly Alwold of Stevington.After the conquest it was granted along with other fiefs to a tenant called Turstin FitzRolf, also known as Tosteins Fitz-Rou and “le Blanc” of the Bec-en-Caux region of Normandy, who was described as a valiant warrior at the Battle of Hastings.