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Horsham

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  • Hundred: Taverham
  • County: Norfolk
  • Total population: 16.7 households (medium).
  • Total tax assessed: 1.5 geld units (quite small).
  • Taxable units: Taxable value 4.5 geld units. 17.25 villtax.
  • Value: Value to lord in 1066 £3. Value to lord in 1086 £4.8. Value to lord c. 1070 £3.
  • Households: 16 villagers. 10 smallholders. 19 freemen. 5 free men.
  • Ploughland: 1 lord's plough teams. 3 men's plough teams.
  • Other resources: Meadow 2 acres. Woodland 60 pigs. 2 mills.
  • Livestock in 1066: 1 cobs. 2 cattle. 6 pigs. 10 goats.
  • Livestock in 1086: 1 cobs. 4 cattle. 18 pigs. 35 goats.
  • Lord in 1066: Edric (of Laxfield).
  • Lord in 1086: Robert Malet.
  • Tenant-in-chief in 1086: Robert Malet.
  • Places mentioned in this entry: Beeston [St Andrew]; Horsham; Sprowston.
  • Phillimore reference: 7,17

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