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Berden
- Hundred: Clavering
- County: Essex
- Total population: 9 households (quite small).
- Total tax assessed: 2 geld units (quite small).
- Taxable units: Taxable value 2 geld units. Taxed on 2.0.
- Value: Value to lord in 1066 £1.5. Value to lord in 1086 £2.
- Households: 4 villagers. 5 smallholders.
- Ploughland: 1 lord's plough teams. 2 men's plough teams.
- Other resources: Meadow 2 acres. Woodland 10 pigs.
- Livestock in 1066: 14 pigs. 25 sheep.
- Livestock in 1086: 3 cobs. 13 cattle. 21 pigs. 122 sheep. 8 goats. 1 beehives.
- Lord in 1066: Godman.
- Overlord in 1066: Robert (son of Wiuhomarch).
- Lord in 1086: Alfred.
- Tenant-in-chief in 1086: Swein of Essex.
- Phillimore reference: 24,54