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Place: Alphamstone
- Hundred: Hinckford
- County: Essex
- Total population: 21 households (quite large).
- Total tax assessed: 1.5 geld units (quite small).
Alphamstone appears in 3 entries in Domesday Book (show all).
❧ ENTRY 1 ❧
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- Head of manor: Bures.
- Taxable units: Taxable value 1.0 geld units. Taxed on 0.95.
- Value:
- Households: 3 smallholders. 15 freemen.
- Ploughland: 2 men's plough teams.
- Other resources: Meadow 4 acres. Woodland 5 pigs.
- Lord in 1066: Freemen, fifteen.
- Lord in 1086: Richard son of (Count) Gilbert.
- Tenant-in-chief in 1086: Richard son of (Count) Gilbert.
- Phillimore reference: 23,19