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Michael Caswell

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The Domesday Book!
« on: November 27, 2019, 01:55:06 pm »
Here's what The Domesday Book says about Bremhill.


The church itself holds Bremhill TRE it paid geld for 38 hides. There is land for 30 ploughs. 0f this land 17 hides are in demesne, and there are 7 ploughs, and 12 slaves There are 32 villans and 13 bordars with 20 ploughs. There are 2 mills rendering 30/- and 12 acres of meadow, and woodland 2 leagues long and 2 furlongs broad. It was worth 14 pounds when the abbot received it, now 16 pounds.

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