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Place: Ashton
- Hundred: Leominster
- County: Herefordshire
- Total population: 20.9 households (quite large).
- Total tax assessed: 3.5 geld units (medium).
- Head of manor: Leominster I.
- Taxable units: Taxable value 60 geld units. Taxed on 60.0. Payments of 13.5 customary.
- Value:
- Households: 224 villagers. 81 smallholders. 13 slaves. 12 female slaves. 6 priests. 20 other.
- Ploughland: 29 lord's plough teams. 201 men's plough teams.
- Other resources: 60.0 lord's lands. Woodland 6 * 3 leagues. 8 mills, value 5.4.
- Lord in 1066: Queen Edith.
- Lord in 1086: King William.
- Tenant-in-chief in 1086: King William.
- Places mentioned in this entry: Leinthall [Earls and Starks]; Ashton; Aymestrey; Brierley; Brimfield; Cholstrey; Edwyn [Ralph]; Farlow; Ivington; Leominster; Luston; Stockton; Stoke [Prior]; Marston [Stannett]; [Miles] Hope; [Lower and Nun] Upton; Yarpole.
- Phillimore reference: 1,10a