The Monasteries of Shropshire

BEELD, BIELD, or BELDE, a word signifying shelter, or a place of shelter, is probably of Anglo-Saxon origin, and cognate with the Saxon verb Byldan (to build). 2 The termination was is nothing else than the Saxon word wses (water), whence came the Saxon verb waescan (to wash). 3Buildwas, surrounded on three sides by an amphitheatre of hills, and bounded on the fourth by the River Severn, has therefore a name, which unchanging nature still stamps as appropriate.The Shropshire Domesday describes the Manor of " Beldewes " as lying in Conodovre (Condover) Hundred, and says that the Bishop of Chester had held it in Saxon times, and still retained it at the period of the Survey.It was estimated at one hide, was held partly in demesne and partly cultivated by villains and serfs, whose dependent condition may further be gathered from mention of a resident Provost.The Manor contained a mill and some wood-land. 4 Second in succession to Robert de Limesey (the Domesday Bishop of Chester) came Roger de Clinton, who, from the Archdeaconry of Buckingham (then in Lincoln Diocese), was elevated to this see, receiving consecration from the hands of Archbishop William Corbois, at Canterbury, on Sunday, September 22, 1129

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