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Bessingham
- Hundred: North Erpingham
- County: Norfolk
- Total population: 16 households (medium).
- Total tax assessed: 1 geld units (very small).
- Taxable units: Taxable value 1 geld units.
- Value: Value to lord in 1066 £1. Value to lord in 1086 £3.
- Households: 8 villagers. 7 smallholders. 1 free men.
- Ploughland: 1 lord's plough teams. 2 men's plough teams.
- Other resources: Meadow 1 acres.
- Livestock in 1086: 2 pigs.
- Lord in 1066: free man, one.
- Overlord in 1066: Edric (of Laxfield).
- Lord in 1086: Drogo of la BeuvriËre.
- Tenant-in-chief in 1086: Drogo of la BeuvriËre.
- Phillimore reference: 30,2