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Place: Edgbaston

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  • Hundred: Coleshill
  • County: Warwickshire
  • Total population: 10 households (quite small).
  • Total tax assessed: 2 geld units (quite small).
  • Taxable units: Taxable value 2 geld units.
  • Value: Value to lord in 1066 £1. Value to lord in 1086 £1.5.
  • Households: 3 villagers. 7 smallholders.
  • Ploughland: 4 ploughlands (land for). 1.5 lord's plough teams. 5 men's plough teams.
  • Other resources: Woodland 3 furlongs * 0.5 league mixed measures.
  • Lords in 1066: Alwy; Aski of Edgbaston.
  • Lord in 1086: Drogo of Whitley.
  • Tenant-in-chief in 1086: William son of Ansculf.
  • Phillimore reference: 27,4

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