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  • Hundred: Twyford
  • Area: Aylesford
  • County: Kent
  • Total population: 22 households (quite large).
  • Total tax assessed: 1 unchanged units (very small).
  • Taxable units: Taxable value 1 unchanged units. Taxed on 1.0.
  • Value: Value to lord in 1066 £5. Value to lord in 1086 £5. Value to lord c. 1070 £3.
  • Households: 7 villagers. 3 smallholders. 12 slaves.
  • Ploughland: 2.5 lord's plough teams. 1 men's plough teams.
  • Other resources: Meadow 8 acres. Woodland 20 swine render. 1 mill, value 0.15.
  • Lord in 1066: brothers, three.
  • Overlord in 1066: King Edward.
  • Lord in 1086: Robert (the interpreter).
  • Tenant-in-chief in 1086: Bishop Odo of Bayeux.
  • Phillimore reference: 5,99

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