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Place: Guisborough
- Hundred: Langbaurgh
- Area: North Riding
- County: Yorkshire
- Total population: 6.7 households (quite small).
- Total tax assessed: 16.5 geld units (very large).
Guisborough appears in 4 entries in Domesday Book (show all).
❧ ENTRY 1 ❧
- Head of manor: South Loftus.
- Taxable units: Taxable value 50.5 geld units.
- Value: Value to lord in 1066 £48.
- Households: 1 villager.
- Ploughland: 34 ploughlands (ploughs possible). 1 men's plough teams.
- Other resources: Meadow 8 acres. Woodland 1 league * 2 furlongs mixed measures. 1 church.
- Lord in 1066: Earl Siward.
- Lord in 1086: Earl Hugh of Chester.
- Tenant-in-chief in 1086: Earl Hugh of Chester.
- Places mentioned in this entry: Easington; Guisborough; Hinderwell; Kirkleatham; Lackenby; Lazenby; Liverton; Marske [by the Sea]; [Old] Boulby; Rawcliff [Banks]; Roskelthorpe; [South] Loftus; Upleatham.
- Phillimore reference: 4N2
