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Place: Branston
- Hundred: Langoe
- Area: Kesteven
- County: Lincolnshire
- Total population: 74 households (very large).
- Total tax assessed: 12 geld units (very large).
- Head of manor: Branston.
- Taxable units: Taxable value 12 geld units. Payments of 0.12 fisheries.
- Value: Value to lord in 1066 £20. Value to lord in 1086 £26.
- Households: 48 villagers. 23 smallholders. 2 freemen. 1 priest.
- Ploughland: 10 ploughlands (land for). 5 lord's plough teams. 8 men's plough teams.
- Other resources: Meadow 60 acres. Woodland 7.5 * 5.5 furlongs. 4 mills, value 1.35. 3 fisheries. 1 church.
- Lord in 1066: Hemming of Branston.
- Lord in 1086: Walter of Aincourt.
- Tenant-in-chief in 1086: Walter of Aincourt.
- Phillimore reference: 31,11