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Place: Batcombe
- Hundred: Whitstone
- County: Somerset
- Total population: 24 households (quite large).
- Total tax assessed: 10 geld units (very large).
- Head of manor: Batcombe.
- Taxable units: Taxable value 20 geld units.
- Value: Value to lord in 1086 £12.5. Value to lord c. 1070 £5.
- Households: 10 villagers. 24 smallholders. 8 slaves. 6 cottagers.
- Ploughland: 16 ploughlands (land for). 5 lord's plough teams. 5.5 men's plough teams.
- Other resources: 15.0 lord's lands. Meadow 44 acres. Pasture 28 acres. Woodland 56 acres. 3 mills, value 0.5.
- Livestock in 1086: 4 cobs. 19 cattle. 21 pigs. 250 sheep. 17 goats.
- Lords in 1066: Alfhild the abbot's mother; Glastonbury St Mary, abbey of; Wulfwy.
- Overlord in 1066: Glastonbury St Mary, abbey of.
- Lords in 1086: Ascelin; Glastonbury St Mary, abbey of; Roger of Courseulles.
- Tenant-in-chief in 1086: Glastonbury St Mary, abbey of.
- Places mentioned in this entry: Batcombe; Westcombe.
- Phillimore reference: 8,24