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Place: Elmstead
- Hundred: Tendring
- County: Essex
- Total population: 50 households (very large).
- Total tax assessed: 8 geld units (very large).
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- Taxable units: Taxable value 8 geld units. Taxed on 8.0.
- Value: Value to lord in 1066 £9. Value to lord in 1086 £10.
- Households: 13 villagers. 36 smallholders. 1 slave.
- Ploughland: 4 lord's plough teams. 18 men's plough teams.
- Other resources: Meadow 22 acres. Pasture 60 sheep. Woodland 500 pigs. 1 mill.
- Livestock in 1066: 3 cobs. 18 cattle. 30 pigs. 150 sheep. 40 goats. 5 beehives.
- Livestock in 1086: 5 cobs. 10 cattle. 32 pigs. 190 sheep. 80 goats. 2 beehives.
- Lord in 1066: Robert son of Wiuhomarch.
- Lord in 1086: Siric.
- Tenant-in-chief in 1086: Swein of Essex.
- Phillimore reference: 24,64