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Place: [Market] Weighton

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  • Hundred: Weighton
  • Area: East Riding
  • County: Yorkshire
  • Total population: 2.6 households (very small).
  • Total tax assessed: 7.4 geld units (quite large).
  • Head of manor: Market Weighton.
  • Taxable units: Taxable value 37 geld units.
  • Value: Value to lord in 1066 £30. Value to lord in 1086 £3.
  • Households: 8 villagers. 5 smallholders.
  • Ploughland: 31 ploughlands (ploughs possible). 1 lord's plough teams. 4 men's plough teams.
  • Other resources: Meadow 1 * 0.5 leagues.
  • Lord in 1066: Earl Morcar.
  • Lord in 1086: King William.
  • Tenant-in-chief in 1086: King William.
  • Places mentioned in this entry: Goodmanham; Houghton; [Market] Weighton; [North] Cliffe; Shipton[thorpe].
  • Phillimore reference: 1Y6

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