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Place: Alethorpe
- Hundred: Gallow
- County: Norfolk
- Total population: 3.6 households (very small).
- Total tax assessed: 0.6 geld units (very small).
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- Head of manor: Fakenham.
- Taxable units: Taxable value 6.1 geld units. 24.0 villtax.
- Value: Value to lord in 1066 £8. Value to lord in 1086 £43.0.
- Households: 13 villagers. 10 smallholders. 2 slaves. 4 freemen. 7 free men.
- Ploughland: 3 lord's plough teams. 4.3 men's plough teams.
- Other resources: Meadow 6 acres. 1 church. 0.06 church lands.
- Livestock in 1066: 1 cobs. 80 sheep.
- Livestock in 1086: 1 cobs. 30 pigs. 88 sheep. 2 .
- Lord in 1066: (Earl) Harold.
- Lord in 1086: King William.
- Tenant-in-chief in 1086: King William.
- Places mentioned in this entry: [Pudding] Norton; Stanhoe; Alethorpe; [East and West] Barsham; Fakenham; [Little] Snoring; [North and South] Creake; Stibbard; Thorpland; Caston.
- Phillimore reference: 1,16