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Place: Asenby

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  • Hundred: Yarlestre
  • Area: North Riding
  • County: Yorkshire
  • Total population: 10.2 households (quite small).
  • Total tax assessed: 5.2 geld units (quite large).
  • Head of manor: Topcliffe.
  • Taxable units: Taxable value 26 geld units.
  • Value: Value to lord in 1066 £4. Value to lord in 1086 £5.
  • Households: 35 villagers. 14 smallholders. 2 priests.
  • Ploughland: 15 ploughlands (ploughs possible). 3 lord's plough teams. 14 men's plough teams.
  • Other resources: Woodland 4 * 4 furlongs. 1 mill, value 0.25. 1 church. 1.0 church lands.
  • Lord in 1066: Bernwulf.
  • Lord in 1086: William of Percy.
  • Tenant-in-chief in 1086: William of Percy.
  • Places mentioned in this entry: Asenby; Crakehill; Dalton; Skipton [on Swale]; Topcliffe.
  • Phillimore reference: 13N17

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