Caister

• Hundred: East Flegg
• County: Norfolk
• Total population: 113 households (very large).
• Total tax assessed: 6 geld units (quite large).

Caister appears in 2 entries in Domesday Book (show all).

❧ ENTRY 1 ❧

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• Taxable units: Taxable value 2 geld units.
• Value: Value to lord in 1066 £1. Value to lord in 1086 £3.3.
• Households: 5 smallholders. 28 free men.
• Ploughland: 1 lord's plough teams. 4.5 men's plough teams.
• Other resources: Meadow 8 acres. 6 salthouses.
• Lords in 1066: St Benet of Holme, abbey of; free men, fourteen.
• Lord in 1086: St Benet of Holme, abbey of.
• Tenant-in-chief in 1086: St Benet of Holme, abbey of.
• Phillimore reference: 17,63

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❧ ENTRY 2 ❧

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• Head of manor: Caister.
• Taxable units: Taxable value 4 geld units. 44.0 villtax.
• Value: Value to lord in 1066 £8. Value to lord in 1086 £20. Value to lord c. 1070 £10.
• Households: 80 free men.
• Ploughland: 1 lord's plough teams. 21 men's plough teams.
• Other resources: Meadow 2 acres. 0.5 mills. 39 salthouses.
• Livestock in 1086: 3 cobs. 8 cattle. 12 pigs. 360 sheep.
• Lord in 1066: free men, eighty.
• Lords in 1086: St Benet of Holme, abbey of; King William.
• Tenant-in-chief in 1086: King William.
• Phillimore reference: 1,201