Place: Nechendune
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Place: Nechendune
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County:
Wiltshire
Total population:
11 households
(quite small).
Total tax assessed:
3
geld units
(medium).
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or
on original page
Taxable units:
Taxable value 3 geld units.
Value:
Value to lord in 1086 £2.
Value to lord c. 1070 £1.5.
Households:
1 villager.
8 smallholders.
2 slaves.
Ploughland:
2 ploughlands (land for).
1 lord's plough teams.
1 men's plough teams.
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Other resources:
2.0 lord's lands.
Meadow 20 acres.
Pasture 15 acres.
Lord in 1066:
Godwin.
Lord in 1086:
Gilbert.
Tenant-in-chief in 1086:
Count Robert of Mortain.
Phillimore reference:
20,2
- Lost, can only be located approximately.
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