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Shelfield

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  • Hundred: Offlow
  • County: Staffordshire
  • Total population: 9.3 households (quite small).
  • Total tax assessed: 1.3 geld units (quite small).
  • Taxable units: Taxable value 4 geld units.
  • Households: 16 villagers. 11 smallholders. 1 slave.
  • Ploughland: 9 ploughlands (land for). 1 lord's plough teams. 7 men's plough teams.
  • Other resources: Meadow 1 acres. Woodland 2 * 1 leagues and 3 * 1 furlongs mixed measures. 1 mill, value 0.1.
  • Lord in 1066: King Edward.
  • Lord in 1086: King William.
  • Tenant-in-chief in 1086: King William.
  • Places mentioned in this entry: Bloxwich and [Little] Bloxwich; Shelfield; Wednesbury.
  • Phillimore reference: 1,6
  • Waste in 1086: Partial

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