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Burnham [Overy]

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  • Hundred: Gallow
  • County: Norfolk
  • Total population: 56 households (very large).
  • Total tax assessed: 6.4 geld units (quite large).
  • Taxable units: Taxable value 6.4 geld units.
  • Value: Value to lord in 1066 £8. Value to lord in 1086 £20. Value to lord c. 1070 £23.7.
  • Households: 16 smallholders. 8 slaves. 30 freemen. 2 free men.
  • Ploughland: 4 lord's plough teams. 1 men's plough teams.
  • Other resources: Woodland 4 pigs. 2.5 mills. 1 salthouse.
  • Livestock in 1066: 7 cobs. 40 pigs.
  • Livestock in 1086: 600 sheep.
  • Lords in 1066: Ketil; Oia; Ulf.
  • Lord in 1086: King William.
  • Tenant-in-chief in 1086: King William.
  • Phillimore reference: 1,147

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