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[Kings] Norton
- Hundred: Gartree
- County: Leicestershire
- Total population: 9.6 households (quite small).
- Total tax assessed: 2.9 geld units (medium).
- Head of manor: Great Bowden I.
- Taxable units: Taxable value 34.3 geld units. Payments of 1.5 rent.
- Value: Value to lord in 1086 £10.1. Value to lord c. 1070 £0.1.
- Households: 10 villagers. 32 smallholders. 73 freemen.
- Ploughland: 2 lord's plough teams. 26.5 men's plough teams.
- Other resources: Meadow 36.5 acres.
- Lord in 1066: King Edward.
- Lords in 1086: Robert of Tosny; King William.
- Tenant-in-chief in 1086: King William.
- Places mentioned in this entry: Blaston; Carlton [Curlieu]; Cranoe; Foxton; Gaulby; [Great and Little] Stretton; [Great] Bowden; Illston [-on-the-Hill]; [Kings] Norton; Medbourne; Shangton; Smeeton [Westerby].
- Phillimore reference: 1,4