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Calne entry, Domesday book 1086. Source: http://opendomesday.org/place/ST9971/calne/ |
Further details in the Calne entry of the Domesday book 1086 include:
King William as Lord
44 villagers (who had the most land),
80 smallholders (who had less land than the villagers),
14 slaves,
10 freedmen,
70 burgesses, with another 11 recorded as other population.
It was also recorded that Calne has 34 ploughlands, which is land that could be ploughed within a year by an 8 oxen plough team. In Calne this was made up of 10 lord's plough teams and 24 men's plough teams. Other resources to be found in Calne at this time were 50 acres of meadow, 9 mills at a value of 5.62, 1 church and 6 church lands.
For further details, please read this previous post.