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Place: Abbotsbury
- Hundred: Uggescombe
- County: Dorset
- Total population: 62 households (very large).
- Total tax assessed: 21 geld units (very large).
- Taxable units: Taxable value 21 geld units.
- Value: Value to lord in 1086 £26.
- Households: 32 villagers. 16 smallholders. 14 slaves.
- Ploughland: 16 ploughlands (land for). 5 lord's plough teams. 16 men's plough teams.
- Other resources: 8.0 lord's lands. Meadow 36 acres. Pasture 27 furlongs * 1 league & 3 furlongs mixed measures. Woodland 8 furlongs. 2 mills, value 0.81.
- Livestock in 1086: 4 cobs. 23 cattle. 30 pigs. 600 sheep.
- Lord in 1066: Abbotsbury St Peter, abbey of.
- Lords in 1086: Abbotsbury St Peter, abbey of; Hugh son of Grip's wife Hawise.
- Tenants-in-chief in 1086: Hugh son of Grip's wife Hawise; Abbotsbury St Peter, abbey of.
- Phillimore reference: 13,1