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Place: Grainthorpe

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  • Hundred: Louthesk
  • Area: Lindsey South Riding
  • County: Lincolnshire
  • Total population: 28 households (quite large).
  • Total tax assessed: 3.0 geld units (medium).

Grainthorpe appears in 3 entries in Domesday Book (show all).

❧ ENTRY 1 ❧

  • Head of manor: Gayton le Wold.
  • Taxable units: Taxable value 2 geld units. Payments of 0.3 salt-houses.
  • Value:
  • Households: 6 villagers. 13 freemen.
  • Ploughland: 2 men's plough teams.
  • Other resources: 6 salthouses.
  • Lord in 1066: Queen Edith.
  • Lord in 1086: King William.
  • Tenant-in-chief in 1086: King William.
  • Phillimore reference: 1,85

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About ❧ Contact ❧ Site by Anna Powell-Smith. Domesday data created by Professor J.J.N. Palmer, University of Hull.