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Place: Hornsea
- Hundred: Holderness [North Hundred]
- Area: East Riding
- County: Yorkshire
- Total population: 3 households (very small).
- Total tax assessed: 6.4 geld units (quite large).
- Head of manor: Hornsea.
- Taxable units: Taxable value 38.5 geld units.
- Value: Value to lord in 1066 £56. Value to lord in 1086 £6.
- Households: 12 villagers. 3 smallholders. 2 freemen. 1 priest.
- Ploughland: 39 ploughlands (ploughs possible). 2 lord's plough teams. 3.5 men's plough teams.
- Other resources: Meadow 60 acres. 1 church.
- Lord in 1066: Earl Morcar.
- Lords in 1086: Drogo of la BeuvriËre; Wizo.
- Tenant-in-chief in 1086: Drogo of la BeuvriËre.
- Places mentioned in this entry: [North] Skirlaugh; [High] Skirlington; Hornsea; [Hornsea] Burton; [Long] Riston; [Sou]thorpe.
- Phillimore reference: 14E7