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Place: Acle

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  • Hundred: Walsham
  • County: Norfolk
  • Total population: 65 households (very large).
  • Total tax assessed: 5.5 geld units (quite large).

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  • Taxable units: Taxable value 5.5 geld units. 24.0 villtax.
  • Value: Value to lord in 1066 £8. Value to lord in 1086 £14.7. Value to lord c. 1070 £12.
  • Households: 23 villagers. 38 smallholders. 4 freemen.
  • Ploughland: 3 lord's plough teams. 13 men's plough teams.
  • Other resources: Meadow 54 acres. Woodland 40 pigs. 1 mill.
  • Livestock in 1066: 3 cobs. 11 beehives.
  • Livestock in 1086: 3 cobs. 2 cattle. 20 pigs. 120 sheep. 15 beehives.
  • Lord in 1066: Earl Ralph the constable.
  • Lord in 1086: King William.
  • Tenant-in-chief in 1086: King William.
  • Phillimore reference: 1,151

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