Place: Balby

• Hundred: Strafforth
• Area: West Riding
• County: Yorkshire
• Total population: 22.8 households (quite large).
• Total tax assessed: 4.9 geld units (quite large).

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

❧ ENTRY 1 ❧

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• Head of manor: Hexthorpe.
• Taxable units: Taxable value 18 geld units.
• Value: Value to lord in 1066 £18. Value to lord in 1086 £12.
• Households: 27 villagers. 34 smallholders. 40 freemen. 1 priest.
• Ploughland: 22 ploughlands (ploughs possible). 2 lord's plough teams. 30 men's plough teams.
• Other resources: Meadow 4 acres. Woodland 1.5 * 1 leagues. 2 mills, value 1.6. 1 church.
• Lord in 1066: Earl Tosti.
• Lord in 1086: Nigel Fossard.
• Tenant-in-chief in 1086: Count Robert of Mortain.
• Places mentioned in this entry: Auckley; Austerfield; Balby; Doncaster; Hexthorpe; Littleworth; Loversall; Warmsworth.
• Phillimore reference: 5W8

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❧ ENTRY 2 ❧

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• Taxable units: Taxable value 8 geld units.
• Value: Value to lord in 1066 £4. Value to lord in 1086 £3.
• Households: 12 villagers. 10 smallholders. 8 freemen.
• Ploughland: 4 ploughlands (ploughs possible). 3 lord's plough teams. 8 men's plough teams.
• Other resources: Woodland 1 league * 2.5 furlongs mixed measures.
• Lord in 1066: Swein son of Svavi.
• Lord in 1086: Roger of Bully.
• Tenant-in-chief in 1086: Roger of Bully.
• Places mentioned in this entry: Balby; Cusworth; Sprotbrough.
• Phillimore reference: 10W23