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Riddlesworth

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  • Hundred: Guiltcross
  • County: Norfolk
  • Total population: 8 households (quite small).
  • Total tax assessed: 1.2 geld units (quite small).
  • Head of manor: Kenninghall.
  • Taxable units: Taxable value 1.2 geld units. 11.5 villtax.
  • Value: Value to lord in 1066 £1.5. Value to lord in 1086 £1.5. Value to lord c. 1070 £1.5.
  • Households: 3 smallholders. 1 slave. 4 free men.
  • Ploughland: 1.5 lord's plough teams. 1 men's plough teams.
  • Other resources: Meadow 11 acres.
  • Livestock in 1066: 1 cobs. 9 pigs. 26 sheep.
  • Livestock in 1086: 1 cobs. 13 pigs. 21 sheep.
  • Lords in 1066: Ordgar; free men, four.
  • Lord in 1086: Humphrey son of Aubrey.
  • Tenant-in-chief in 1086: Humphrey son of Aubrey.
  • Phillimore reference: 39,1

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