Lenborough was a recorded Domesday manor in the hundred of Rowley, Buckinghamshire, assessed at 3 hides in 1086 under the lordship of Walter Giffard, with a pre-Conquest tenant named Towi - placing the hamlet within the Anglo-Saxon estate landscape in which the hoard of coins (buried c. 1035) would have circulated. The place-name "Lenborough" itself may preserve the memory of a burh constructed by Edward the Elder c. 915 on the south side of the River Ouse opposite Buckingham, making the area a site of documented late Anglo-Saxon strategic and economic significance. The hoard's burial date, immediately before or during the end of Cnut's reign, fits precisely within the manorial and political context recorded in both Domesday and the earlier chronicle evidence for this locality.

Lewis's *Topographical Dictionary* establishes that Lenborough was an ecclesiastical hamlet within **Buckingham parish** - a vicarage in the Diocese of Oxford - and that Lenborough manor was formally annexed to Buckingham manor until 1521, meaning any medieval church dues, tithes, or Taxatio/Valor entries for Lenborough would be subsumed within the **Buckingham** church and manor records. The reference to Prebend End forming part of the endowment of Buckingham Church at the time of Domesday further confirms that the ecclesiastical income of this area, including Lenborough, flowed through the Buckingham prebendal and vicarial structure throughout the medieval period. The hoard's discovery site at a deserted medieval village (DMV) with a manor house is therefore directly within the jurisdiction of Buckingham parish church - the relevant unit for any Taxatio Ecclesiastica (1291) or Valor Ecclesiasticus (1535) search concerning Lenborough.

Beaumont Castle was a motte-and-bailey castle built by Norman lord Roger d'Ivry after 1066, comprising earthwork defenses with two baileys. The 1954-5 amateur excavations by the Whiteley brothers uncovered a well or dungeon structure with an underground passage, though scholarly opinion on this discovery remains disputed. The site now exists only as earthworks protected as a scheduled monument, with the northwestern mound having been largely destroyed since the 1950s excavations.

The Buckinghamshire Historic Environment Record entry for Manor Farm, Lenborough - the very field where the Lenborough Hoard was discovered - establishes that at Domesday (1086) the immediate area comprised two distinct manors: one of 7 hides held under the Bishop of Bayeux (via Arn

This VCH passage establishes that Lenborough - the hamlet where the 2014 coin hoard was discovered - takes its very name from an Anglo-Saxon fortified position ("burh") on the opposite bank of the River Ouse from Buckingham, and that its manor of 3 hides was held under Walter Giffard at Domesday (1086). The area around Lenborough Manor therefore had significant Anglo-Saxon and early Norman administrative importance, providing direct historical context for why a large hoard of late Anglo-Saxon coins might have been deposited there. Lenborough was ecclesiastically joined with Gawcott in 1862 and remained a rural hamlet within the ancient parish of Buckingham, situating the hoard find-spot squarely within this long-documented manorial landscape.