The Domesday Book shows that a man named Hereward held lands in the parishes of Witham on the Hill and Barholm with Stow in the southwestern corner of Lincolnshire as a tenant of Peterborough Abbey; For maps, see eg Hereward the Wake at Open Domesday, and map of places associated with persons called Hereweard at PASE Domesday prior to his exile, Hereward had also held lands as a tenant of Croyland Abbey at Crowland, 8 miles east of Market Deeping in the neighbouring fenland.