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Place: Caythorpe
- Hundred: Loveden
- Area: Kesteven
- County: Lincolnshire
- Total population: 172 households (very large).
- Total tax assessed: 48 geld units (very large).
- Head of manor: Caythorpe.
- Taxable units: Taxable value 48 geld units.
- Value: Value to lord in 1066 £30. Value to lord in 1086 £50.
- Households: 50 villagers. 7 smallholders. 113 freemen. 2 priests.
- Ploughland: 48 ploughlands (land for). 8.5 lord's plough teams. 45 men's plough teams.
- Other resources: Meadow 880 acres. 0.5 mills. 2 churches.
- Lord in 1066: Aelric (son of Mergeat).
- Lords in 1086: Robert of Vessey; Englishman, one; men, three.
- Tenant-in-chief in 1086: Robert of Vessey.
- Phillimore reference: 37,2