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Bosham
- Hundred: Bosham
- Area: Chichester
- County: Sussex / Hampshire
- Total population: 150.5 households (very large).
- Total tax assessed: 32.5 adjusted units; 56.5 exemption units (very large).
Bosham appears in 3 entries in Domesday Book (show all).
❧ ENTRY 1 ❧
- Taxable units: Taxable value 56.5 exemption units. Taxed on 38.0. Payments of 0.8 fisheries; urban.
- Value: Value to lord in 1066 £40. Value to lord in 1086 £40. Value to lord c. 1070 £40.
- Households: 39 villagers. 51 smallholders. 17 slaves.
- Ploughland: 7 lord's plough teams. 19 men's plough teams.
- Other resources: Woodland 6 swine render. 8 mills, value 3.87. 2 fisheries. 1 church.
- Lord in 1066: Earl Godwin.
- Lords in 1086: Engelhere; King William.
- Tenant-in-chief in 1086: King William.
- Phillimore reference: 1,1
