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Place: Abberton
- Hundred: Winstree
- County: Essex
- Total population: 9 households (quite small).
- Total tax assessed: 3.6 geld units (medium).
Abberton appears in 3 entries in Domesday Book (show all).
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- Taxable units: Taxable value 1.8 geld units. Taxed on 1.75.
- Value: Value to lord in 1086 £3.
- Households: 3 smallholders.
- Ploughland: 1 lord's plough teams. 0.5 men's plough teams.
- Other resources: Meadow 4 acres. Woodland 100 pigs.
- Livestock in 1086: 2 cobs. 4 cattle. 30 pigs. 100 sheep.
- Lord in 1066: Siward.
- Lord in 1086: Ralph of Marcy.
- Tenant-in-chief in 1086: Count Eustace of Boulogne.
- Phillimore reference: 20,20