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Place: Rockley

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  • Hundred: Selkley
  • County: Wiltshire
  • Total population: 24 households (quite large).
  • Total tax assessed: 11 geld units (very large).

Rockley appears in 2 entries in Domesday Book (show all).

❧ ENTRY 1 ❧

  • Taxable units: Taxable value 10 geld units.
  • Value: Value to lord in 1086 £8.
  • Households: 7 villagers. 12 smallholders. 1 slave.
  • Ploughland: 6 ploughlands (land for). 1 lord's plough teams. 3 men's plough teams.
  • Other resources: 6.75 lord's lands. Meadow 3 acres. Pasture 0.5 leagues * 2 furlongs mixed measures.
  • Lord in 1066: Karli of Norton.
  • Lord in 1086: Alfred of Marlborough.
  • Tenant-in-chief in 1086: Alfred of Marlborough.
  • Phillimore reference: 26,13

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AboutContact ❧ Site by Anna Powell-Smith. Domesday data created by Professor J.J.N. Palmer, University of Hull.