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Several places in various parts of Wales and the Westmidlands with the name Dinas, and there is a town in Brittany called Dinan, which is seated on a craggy rock. North of the Old Severn and onto Chester and Ireland.

Middlesex in the Domesday Book, as being divided into the six hundreds, including the village of Denham, from Circenster to Essex and the Thames Valley, is then split up into five Templar districts. The adminstrative-ceremonial county changed substantially since the county's creation in the 11th Century. It included the City of London and the city of Westminster.

The present and modern name of Dinham might at first suggest a Saxon origin, but in all the oldest records it is found written Dinan, and this leads us to infer its derivation from the Welsh word Din, which in its primary sense signifies a fortified hill or rock, and afterwards came, like Dinas, to signify a fortified town or city, all early towns being originally inclosed with walls for security. The Irish and Gaelic word Dun has a similar signification, and these together with the Saxon Tun, the Dutch Tuyn, and the English Town, seems all to have had one common origin as they had one common meaning, viz: a space inclosed for security and defence. The Saxon Chronicle places king William's expedition to Wales in 1081. Ludlow, in all probability came to the hands of Henry I, not by forfeiture of Robert de Bellême, but as an escheat of de Lacy. From Stephen, Joceas de Dinan retained the name of Dynan, called everywhere Joce de Dynan was from under the auspices of the emperor, and not Henry I. The Castle of Dynan, and all the country round towards the river of Corve, with all the honor, he gave to Sir Joce, his knight. The gate of Ludlow town, called, in modern times Dinham Gate.

Ludlow Castle as it now stands, the three baillies being the keep, the inner court, and the outer court. The two fosses were, that which still exists in the outer court, and one which separated the wall of the outer court from the town, now filled up and turned into a promenade. To the FitzAlans, even after they had inherited wider influence with the earldom of Arundel. Painswick was subsequently transferred to Llanthony Secunda at Gloucester which held it at the Dissolution and it was held by St. Guthlác's Priory, Hereford with his approaches toward Gloucester Abbey. Acton Scott, and other religious orders to have possessions in Painswick during the Middle Ages were the Knights Hospitaller, who owned a tenement, and Cirencester Abbey.

In North Devon, the Dynhams were also responsible for the foundation of the borough of Harton circa 1290. Harton is now scarcely more than a large village, but it once supported a larger population than the neighbouring town of Bideford with the farmer's market from Devon and Somerset and Cornwall.