Aldham

• Hundred: Cosford
• County: Suffolk
• Total population: 12 households (medium).
• Total tax assessed: 6.4 geld units (quite large).

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

❧ ENTRY 1 ❧

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• Taxable units: Taxable value 1.5 geld units. 6.0 villtax.
• Value: Value to lord in 1066 £1.5. Value to lord in 1086 £2.
• Households: 4 smallholders. 6 free men.
• Ploughland: 7 men's plough teams.
• Other resources: Meadow 6 acres. 1 church. 0.01 church lands.
• Lords in 1066: free men, six; free men, ten.
• Overlord in 1066: (Bury) St Edmunds, abbey of.
• Lords in 1086: Berard <of Cockfield>; (Bury) St Edmunds, abbey of.
• Tenant-in-chief in 1086: (Bury) St Edmunds, abbey of.
• Places mentioned in this entry: Aldham; other Whatfield.
• Phillimore reference: 14,112

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❧ ENTRY 2 ❧

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• Taxable units: Taxable value 5.6 geld units. 5.0 villtax.
• Value: Value to lord in 1066 £8. Value to lord in 1086 £15.0.
• Households: 4 villagers. 2 slaves. 1 free men.
• Ploughland: 3 lord's plough teams. 4 men's plough teams.
• Other resources: Meadow 7 acres. Woodland 8 pigs. 2 mills. 1 church. 0.05 church lands.
• Livestock in 1066: 10 cattle. 80 pigs. 140 sheep.
• Livestock in 1086: 3 cobs. 18 cattle. 60 pigs. 60 sheep.
• Lords in 1066: Wulfwin (son of Alfwin); free man, one.
• Overlord in 1066: (Bury) St Edmunds, abbey of.
• Lord in 1086: Aubrey de Vere.
• Tenant-in-chief in 1086: Aubrey de Vere.
• Phillimore reference: 35,6