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Place: Ashby
- Hundred: West Flegg
- County: Norfolk
- Total population: 23.8 households (quite large).
- Total tax assessed: 2.8 geld units (medium).
Ashby appears in 3 entries in Domesday Book (show all).
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- Taxable units: Taxable value 2.5 geld units. 15.0 villtax.
- Value: Value to lord in 1066 £1. Value to lord in 1086 £1.3.
- Households: 7 smallholders. 13 freemen.
- Ploughland: 1 lord's plough teams. 2.5 men's plough teams.
- Other resources: Meadow 15 acres. Woodland 6 pigs.
- Lord in 1066: St Benet of Holme, abbey of.
- Lord in 1086: St Benet of Holme, abbey of.
- Tenant-in-chief in 1086: St Benet of Holme, abbey of.
- Phillimore reference: 17,11