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Place: Rotherham

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  • Hundred: Strafforth
  • Area: West Riding
  • County: Yorkshire
  • Total population: 12 households (medium).
  • Total tax assessed: 5 geld units (quite large).
  • Taxable units: Taxable value 5 geld units.
  • Value: Value to lord in 1066 £4. Value to lord in 1086 £1.5.
  • Households: 8 villagers. 3 smallholders. 1 priest.
  • Ploughland: 3 ploughlands (ploughs possible). 1 lord's plough teams. 2.5 men's plough teams.
  • Other resources: Meadow 4 acres. Woodland 7 acres. 1 mill, value 0.5. 1 church.
  • Lord in 1066: Hakon.
  • Lord in 1086: Nigel Fossard.
  • Tenant-in-chief in 1086: Count Robert of Mortain.
  • Phillimore reference: 5W13

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