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Place: Burley
- Hundred: Reading
- County: Berkshire
- Total population: 5 households (very small).
- Total tax assessed: 2 exemption units; 1 geld units (medium).
Burley appears in 3 entries in Domesday Book (show all).
❧ ENTRY 1 ❧
- Taxable units: Taxable value 1 geld units. Taxed on 1.0. Payments of 0.03 fisheries.
- Value: Value to lord in 1066 £0.5. Value to lord in 1086 £1.
- Households: 1 villager. 1 smallholder.
- Ploughland: 1 men's plough teams.
- Other resources: Meadow 2 acres. Woodland 5 swine render. 1 fishery.
- Lord in 1066: Leofwin.
- Overlord in 1066: King Edward.
- Lord in 1086: Leofwin.
- Tenant-in-chief in 1086: Henry of Ferrers.
- Phillimore reference: 21,21
- No longer exists as a named location, but can be identified on the ground.