maerdredum
[W. maerdref < maer =bailiff+tref =hamlet]
, (in Wales) ‘bailiff’s hamlet’, servile settlement in the demesne under supervision of the lord’s bailiff (v. A. N. Palmer and E. Owen History of Ancient Tenures ([Wrexham], 1910), 100–5).1284extenta manerii de Nevyn [Nefyn, Caern] cum maerdredo burgi(MinAc1171/7) Med. Bor. Snowd.9.