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Place: Alderton
- Hundred: Wilford
- County: Suffolk
- Total population: 40.5 households (very large).
- Total tax assessed: 2.4 geld units (quite small).
Alderton appears in 6 entries in Domesday Book (show all).
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- Taxable units: Taxable value 1.9 geld units.
- Value: Value to lord in 1066 £2. Value to lord in 1086 £5.2.
- Households: 1.5 smallholder. 34 free men.
- Ploughland: 5 men's plough teams.
- Other resources: Meadow 21 acres. 1 church. 0.2 church lands.
- Lord in 1066: free men, thirty-one.
- Overlords in 1066: Edric of Laxfield; Godric.
- Lord in 1086: Robert of Glanville.
- Tenant-in-chief in 1086: Robert Malet.
- Phillimore reference: 6,159