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Place: Alhampton
- Hundred: Whitstone
- County: Somerset
- Total population: 21 households (quite large).
- Total tax assessed: 7.5 geld units (quite large).
- Head of manor: Ditcheat.
- Taxable units: Taxable value 30 geld units.
- Value: Value to lord in 1086 £32.5. Value to lord c. 1070 £18.
- Households: 42 villagers. 30 smallholders. 6 slaves. 6 Cottagers.
- Ploughland: 30 ploughlands (land for). 7.5 lord's plough teams. 22 men's plough teams.
- Other resources: 3.0 lord's lands. Meadow 95 acres. Pasture 6 * 2 & 20 acres mixed measures. Woodland 1.5 leagues * 2 furlongs & 9 * 1.5 furlongs mixed measures. 4 mills, value 1.03.
- Livestock in 1086: 2 cobs. 12 cattle. 20 pigs. 123 sheep. 23 goats.
- Lords in 1066: Glastonbury St Mary, abbey of; Spirtes the priest; thane, one; thanes, two.
- Overlord in 1066: Glastonbury St Mary, abbey of.
- Lords in 1086: Ralph Crooked Hands; Count Robert of Mortain; Everard; Nigel the doctor; Serlo of Burcy; Glastonbury St Mary, abbey of; Aelfric son of Alwaker.
- Tenants-in-chief in 1086: Glastonbury St Mary, abbey of; Count Robert of Mortain.
- Places mentioned in this entry: Alhampton; Ditcheat; Hornblotton; Lamyatt.
- Phillimore reference: 8,30