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Colyton

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  • Hundred: Colyton
  • County: Devon
  • Total population: 34 households (quite large).
  • Total tax assessed: 1 geld units (very small).
  • Taxable units: Taxable value 1 geld units.
  • Value: Value to lord in 1086 £11.8.
  • Households: 21 villagers. 10 smallholders. 3 slaves.
  • Ploughland: 16 ploughlands (land for). 1 lord's plough teams. 14 men's plough teams.
  • Other resources: 0.25 lord's lands. Meadow 36 acres. Pasture 200 acres. Woodland 10 acres. 1 mill, value 0.16. 1 church. 0.12 church lands.
  • Livestock in 1086: 6 cattle.
  • Lord in 1066: King Edward.
  • Lords in 1086: King William; church, one.
  • Tenant-in-chief in 1086: King William.
  • Phillimore reference: 1,13

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