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Place: Aldbourne
- Hundred: Selkley
- County: Wiltshire
- Total population: 156 households (very large).
- Total tax assessed: 40 geld units (very large).
- Head of manor: Aldbourne.
- Taxable units: Taxable value 40 geld units.
- Value: Value to lord in 1086 £62.
- Households: 73 villagers. 25 slaves. 38 other population. 14 freedmen. 6 burgesses.
- Ploughland: 47 ploughlands (land for). 12 lord's plough teams. 26 men's plough teams.
- Other resources: 18.0 lord's lands. Meadow 1 league * 5 furlongs mixed measures. Pasture 1 * 0.5 leagues. Woodland 2 * 0.5 leagues. 4 mills, value 0.83. 1 church. 2.0 church lands.
- Lord in 1066: Countess Gytha of Wessex.
- Lords in 1086: Aldbourne, church of; King William.
- Tenant-in-chief in 1086: King William.
- Phillimore reference: 1,10