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Place: Chesterfield
- Hundred: Scarsdale
- County: Derbyshire
- Total population: 2.7 households (very small).
- Total tax assessed: 0.9 geld units (very small).
- Head of manor: Newbold I.
- Taxable units: Taxable value 6.1 geld units.
- Value: Value to lord in 1066 £6. Value to lord in 1086 £10.
- Households: 16 villagers. 2 smallholders. 1 slave.
- Ploughland: 6 ploughlands (land for). 4 men's plough teams.
- Other resources: Meadow 8 acres. Woodland 3 * 3 leagues.
- Lord in 1066: King Edward.
- Lord in 1086: King William.
- Tenant-in-chief in 1086: King William.
- Places mentioned in this entry: Boythorpe; Brimington; Chesterfield; Eckington; Newbold and [Upper] Newbold; [Old] Whittington; Tapton.
- Phillimore reference: 1,1