Tarbock Village is only home to around 2,000 people but it is older than the city itself.
The tiny village dates back to 1066 when King Edward was 'overlord' as first mentioned in the Doomsday book in 1086. The area could not settle on the spelling of the village and went through at least five name changes in the last 936 years. The very first spelling was 'Tarboc', eventually changing to its current version in the seventeenth century.
While many of the village's earliest homes became huge farm houses, the remaining original cottages are still in perfect condition and are considered conservation areas. One of the oldest cottages in the village dates back to 1776.
