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Place: Coldcotes
- Hundred: Skyrack
- Area: West Riding
- County: Yorkshire
- Total population: 3.7 households (very small).
- Total tax assessed: 4.2 geld units (quite large).
- Head of manor: Kippax.
- Taxable units: Taxable value 71.5 geld units.
- Value: Value to lord in 1066 £16. Value to lord in 1086 £16.
- Households: 48 villagers. 12 smallholders. 3 priests.
- Ploughland: 38 ploughlands (ploughs possible). 12 lord's plough teams. 16 men's plough teams.
- Other resources: Meadow 30 acres. Woodland 2 * 1 leagues. 3 mills, value 0.5. 3 churches.
- Lord in 1066: Earl Edwin.
- Lord in 1086: Ilbert of Lacy.
- Tenant-in-chief in 1086: Ilbert of Lacy.
- Places mentioned in this entry: Allerton [Bywater]; Austhorpe; Barwick [in Elmet]; Coldcotes; Colton; Cowthwaite; Garforth; Gipton; [Great and Little] Preston; Kiddal [Hall]; Kippax; Ledston; Manston; Parlington; Potterton; Skelton [Grange]; Swillington.
- Phillimore reference: 9W1