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Bassingthorpe-1000

The village contains 4 houses and a Grade I listed church dedicated to St Thomas

Bassingthorpe was a settlement in Domesday Book, in the hundred of Beltisloe and the county of Lincolnshire. It had a recorded population of 2.5 households in 1086, putting it in the smallest 20% of settlements recorded in Domesday

 

Households: 3 villagers. 2 smallholders.

Ploughland: 1.8 ploughlands. 2 men's plough teams.

Other resources: Meadow 13 acres. Woodland 300 acres.

Annual value to lord: 1 pound in 1086; 1 pound 10 shillings in 1066.

Tenant-in-chief in 1086: Ivo Tallboys.

Lord in 1086: Azur (son of Svala).

Lord in 1066: Godwin .

 

Not much has changed in the last thousand years!!

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