Alresford in the Domesday Book

A village in Tendring hundred, in the county of Essex.

Four manors recorded in Domesday.

• 1st Manor

  • Lord of the Manor in 1066: Edward
  • Tenant in Chief in 1086: Count Eustace
  • Lord of the Manor in 1086: Hato (subinfeudated)
  • Taxable Value: 2 ³⁄₈ geld
  • Value to Lord of the Manor: £3 in 1086
  • Households: 7 smallholders; 2 slaves
  • Plough Teams: ¹⁄₂ lord's plough; ¹⁄₂ men's plough
  • Meadow: 3 acres
  • Woodland: 100 pigs
  • Pasture: 20 sheep

• 2nd Manor

  • Lord of the Manor in 1066: Edwold
  • Tenant in Chief in 1086: Bishop of London
  • Lord of the Manor in 1086: Humphrey (subinfeudated)
  • Taxable Value: 2 geld
  • Value to Lord of the Manor: £2 in 1066; £1 in 1086
  • Households: 2 villagers; 6 smallholders; 2 slaves
  • Plough Teams: 1 men's plough

• 3rd Manor

  • Lord of the Manor in 1066: Free man, one
  • Tenant in Chief in 1086: Bishop Odo of Bayeux
  • Lord of the Manor in 1086: Bishop Odo of Bayeux
  • Taxable Value: ¹⁄₂ geld
  • Value to Lord of the Manor: 10 shillings in 1066; 10 shillings in 1070; 5/2½ in 1086

• 4th Manor

  • Lord of the Manor in 1066: Algar
  • Tenant in Chief in 1086: Richard son of Count Gilbert
  • Lord of the Manor in 1086: Algar (subinfeudated)
  • Taxable Value: ¹⁄₄ geld
  • Value to Lord of the Manor: 10 shillings in 1066; 6 shillings in 1086
  • Pasture: 40 sheep