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Herringby

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  • Hundred: East Flegg
  • County: Norfolk
  • Total population: 23 households (quite large).
  • Total tax assessed: 1.2 geld units (quite small).
  • Taxable units: Taxable value 1.2 geld units.
  • Value: Value to lord in 1066 £1. Value to lord in 1086 £1. Value to lord c. 1070 £1.
  • Households: 12 villagers. 2 smallholders. 9 free men.
  • Ploughland: 1 lord's plough teams. 3 men's plough teams.
  • Other resources: Meadow 7 acres. Pasture 100 sheep. 5.5 salthouses.
  • Lords in 1066: free man, one; free men, eight.
  • Overlord in 1066: Bishop Almer (of Elmham).
  • Lord in 1086: Reinbald the goldsmith.
  • Tenant-in-chief in 1086: Reinbald the goldsmith.
  • Phillimore reference: 65,8

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