COULSTON, alias COLVESTON, Lies on the opposite shore to
Cranwich, on the north side of the river Wissey, the hundred of
Grimeshoe crossing here that river, and taking in this town and
that of Ickburgh. In Domesday it is wrote Covestuna, and derives
its name from the Saxon word Love, a small creak, and tun or
ton, a town or village. At the survey it was the lordship of
William Earl Warren, but in the Confessor's time, was held by a
freeman of Harold's, afterwards King of England, who had one
carucate of land in demean, 12 acres of meadow, and a fishery,
and was valued at 8s. per annum; it was five furlongs long, and
four broad, and paid 5d. ob. when the hundred paid 20s. gelt.
(fn. 1) Soon after the Conquest, this village was held of the
Earl Warren, the capital lord, by a family that assumed their
name from it, a practice frequent in that age, and Jordan de
Colveston, lord, by his deed sans date, (about the reign of King
Henry I. as I take it,) gave to the monks of Castle-Acre, the
rent of 3s. per annum, out