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Place: Ixworth
- Hundred: Blackburn
- County: Suffolk
- Total population: 51 households (very large).
- Total tax assessed: 7.8 exemption units; 3.3 geld units (very large).
Ixworth appears in 5 entries in Domesday Book (show all).
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- Taxable units: Taxable value 7.8 exemption units. 22.75 villtax. Taxed on 7.16.
- Value: Value to lord in 1066 £6.5. Value to lord in 1086 £8.3. Value to lord c. 1070 £1.
- Households: 2 smallholders. 2 slaves. 30 free men.
- Ploughland: 3 lord's plough teams. 7.5 men's plough teams.
- Other resources: Meadow 10 acres. 1 mill. 1 church. 0.66 church lands.
- Livestock in 1066: 2 cobs. 5 cattle. 40 pigs. 8 sheep.
- Livestock in 1086: 1 cobs. 5 cattle. 22 pigs. 92 sheep.
- Lords in 1066: Aki the Dane; free men, five; free men, twenty-five.
- Overlord in 1066: Bury St Edmunds, abbey of.
- Lord in 1086: Robert Blunt.
- Tenant-in-chief in 1086: Robert Blunt.
- Phillimore reference: 66,1