A royal vill, royal tun or villa regalis (Old English: cyneliċ tūn) was the central settlement of a rural territory in Anglo Saxon England, which would...

believed to have existed since before Roman times. It was a royal vill and probably a royal hunting lodge, under Alfred the Great. The town continued to...

of Seaxburga. At the time of the Domesday Book in 1086, Blythburgh was a royal estate with two carucates of land and two other associated churches without...

the vill was a territorial one—most vills did not tally physically with manor boundaries—and a public part of the royal administration. The vill had judicial...

Deira, and Bernicia were based on old Roman civitas. Royal administration centred on the royal vill (Latin: villa; Old English: tun), which was a residence...

thought to derive. During the late Anglo-Saxon period, Leatherhead was a royal vill and is first mentioned in the will of Alfred the Great in 880 AD. The...

court from one royal vill to another as they collected food rent and heard petitions. The king's income came from revenue from the royal demesne (now known...

multiple estates or hundreds to kings and other members of royal households at a territory's royal vill. The early medieval British Isles lacked the sophisticated...

Sign placed at site of Royal Oak Motel...

collection of buildings discovered at Yeavering formed part of an Anglo-Saxon royal vill or king's tun. These 'tun' consisted of a series of buildings designed...