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Domesday Book entry for manor of
Radford in the hundred of Shipton, Oxfordshire, one of six manors held by Anchetil de Greye from William FitzOsbern, 1st Earl of Hereford.
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Cray and Grey seem to be almost interchangeable in Kent place names. Cray passed from Anglo-Norman French into
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is modern Rots, on the outskirts of Caen about 13 kilometres (8 mi) away. Between them, on the river
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