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Burcot
- Hundred: Came
- County: Worcestershire
- Total population: 6.7 households (quite small).
- Total tax assessed: 1.6 geld units (quite small).
- Head of manor: Bromsgrove.
- Taxable units: Taxable value 30 geld units.
- Households: 20 villagers. 92 smallholders. 9 slaves. 1 female slave. 1 priest. 5 other.
- Ploughland: 2 lord's plough teams. 77 men's plough teams.
- Other resources: Woodland 7 * 4 leagues. 3 mills, value 0.66. 13 salthouses.
- Lord in 1066: Earl Edwin.
- Lord in 1086: King William.
- Tenant-in-chief in 1086: King William.
- Places mentioned in this entry: Ashborough; Bromsgrove; Burcot; Comble; Fockbury; Houndsfield; [Kings] Norton; Lea [Green]; Lindsworth; Moseley; Rednal; Shurvenhill; Tessall; Timberhanger; Tutnall; Tynsall; Woodcote and Woodcote [Green]; Wythall; Wythwood.
- Phillimore reference: 1,1a