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Welford [-on-Avon]
- Hundred: Deerhurst
- County: Gloucestershire / Warwickshire
- Total population: 15.1 households (medium).
- Total tax assessed: 5 geld units (quite large).
- Taxable units: Taxable value 60 geld units. Taxed on 60.0. Payments of 0.82 urban.
- Value: Value to lord in 1066 £26.5. Value to lord in 1086 £30.
- Households: 80 villagers. 30 smallholders. 38 slaves. 1 free men. 32 burgesses.
- Ploughland: 20 lord's plough teams. 48 men's plough teams.
- Other resources: Meadow 74 acres. Woodland 2.5 leagues * 1 league + 2 furlongs & 0.5 leagues * 2 furlongs mixed measures. 4 mills, value 2.0.
- Lords in 1086: Paris (Saint-Denis), abbey of; free men, five.
- Tenant-in-chief in 1086: Paris (Saint-Denis), abbey of.
- Places mentioned in this entry: Calcot; Coln [St Dennis]; [Deerhurst] Walton; Haw; Leigh; [Little] Compton; Preston [-on-Stour]; Staverton; Uckington; Welford [-on-Avon]; Woolstone; Kemerton.
- Phillimore reference: 20,1