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Place: Spaxton
- Hundred: Cannington
- County: Somerset
- Total population: 24 households (quite large).
- Total tax assessed: 2.5 geld units (quite small).
- Head of manor: Spaxton.
- Taxable units: Taxable value 2.5 geld units.
- Value: Value to lord in 1086 £5.5. Value to lord c. 1070 £5.5.
- Households: 9 villagers. 7 smallholders. 5 slaves. 3 cottagers.
- Ploughland: 8 ploughlands (land for). 3 lord's plough teams. 3 men's plough teams.
- Other resources: 1.5 lord's lands. Meadow 30 acres. Woodland 129 acres.
- Livestock in 1086: 16 pigs. 54 sheep. 14 goats.
- Lord in 1066: Alwy son of Banna.
- Lords in 1086: Alfred of `Spain'; man-at-arms, one.
- Tenant-in-chief in 1086: Alfred of `Spain'.
- Phillimore reference: 35,5