Editing Isleworth (section)

===Granted to St Valeri Barons===
Isleworth was a well-cultivated farming and trading settlement, more valuable than many of its neighbours, stretching from the [[Middlesex]] bank of the River Thames west to the centre of [[Hounslow]] (including the land of later [[Hounslow Priory]]) and as far as the borders of Southall (in Hayes parish at the time) at the time of the [[Norman Conquest of England|Norman Conquest]] in 1066. The [[Domesday Book]] (1086) as ''Gistelesworde'' records its 55 [[ploughland]]s, 118 households and amount rendered, £72 per year, to its [[feudal system]] overlords.<ref>[http://www.domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TQ1675/isleworth/ Domesday map] Retrieved 25 December 2013</ref><ref>Mills, A. D. (1996). ''Dictionary of English Place-Names'', p.188. Oxford University Press, Oxford. {{ISBN|0-19-283131-3}}.</ref> After the Conquest, successive Norman barons of the St Valeri family held the [[Manorialism|manor]] of Isleworth but there is no evidence that they ever lived there – it being held as a source of revenue and power. One of the later barons gave several manorial rents and privileges to London's Hospital of St Giles. He also gave the church and advowson to the Abbey of St Valeri, which stood at the mouth of the [[Somme (river)|Somme]] in [[Picardy]].<ref>'And So Make a City Here' by G E Bate F.R.Hist.S. p68 publisher: Thomasons, Hounslow 1948</ref>