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Place: Ashwater
- Hundred: Black Torrington
- County: Devon
- Total population: 58 households (very large).
- Total tax assessed: 1 geld units (very small).
- Taxable units: Taxable value 1 geld units.
- Value: Value to lord in 1086 £7.5. Value to lord c. 1070 £7.5.
- Households: 40 villagers. 12 smallholders. 6 slaves.
- Ploughland: 20 ploughlands (land for). 2 lord's plough teams. 17 men's plough teams.
- Other resources: 0.25 lord's lands. Meadow 100 acres. Pasture 200 acres. Woodland 15 acres.
- Livestock in 1086: 42 cattle. 3 pigs. 161 sheep. 30 goats.
- Lord in 1066: Alwin.
- Lord in 1086: Bishop Geoffrey of Coutances.
- Tenant-in-chief in 1086: Bishop Geoffrey of Coutances.
- Phillimore reference: 3,4