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Place: Aldeby
- Hundred: Clavering
- County: Norfolk
- Total population: 17 households (medium).
- Total tax assessed: 1.6 geld units (quite small).
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- Taxable units: Taxable value 8.0 geld units. 25.5 villtax.
- Value: Value to lord in 1066 £5.7. Value to lord in 1086 £12.9.
- Households: 4 villagers. 29 smallholders. 5 slaves. 2 freemen. 45 free men.
- Ploughland: 4 lord's plough teams. 15.5 men's plough teams.
- Other resources: Meadow 63 acres. Woodland 26 pigs. 1 mill. 2 churches. 0.26 church lands.
- Livestock in 1066: 2 cobs. 7 pigs. 120 sheep.
- Livestock in 1086: 2 cobs. 8 cattle. 36 pigs. 200 sheep. 5 beehives.
- Lords in 1066: free man, one; free men, eleven; free men, fifteen; free men, two.
- Overlords in 1066: Archbishop Stigand; free man, one.
- Lord in 1086: Ralph of Beaufour.
- Tenant-in-chief in 1086: Ralph of Beaufour.
- Places mentioned in this entry: Aldeby; Norton [Subcourse]; Raveningham; Thurketeliart; Toft [Monks].
- Phillimore reference: 20,36