Broome in the Domesday Book

A village in Lodding hundred, in the county of Norfolk.

Three manors recorded in Domesday.

• 1st Manor

  • Overlord in 1066: Abbey of Bury St Edmunds
  • Lord of the Manor in 1066: Toli the sheriff
  • Tenant in Chief in 1086: Abbey of Bury St Edmunds
  • Lord of the Manor in 1086: Frodo brother of Abbot Baldwin (subinfeudated)
  • Taxable Value: 4 ³⁄₄ geld
  • Value to Lord of the Manor: £2 in 1066; £5 5/- in 1086
  • Households: 3 villagers; 16 smallholders; 15 freemen
  • Plough Teams: 4 lord's ploughs; 3 ¹⁄₂ men's ploughs
  • Meadow: 16 acres
  • Woodland: 60 pigs
  • Churches: 1
  • Mills: 1
  • Animals in 1066: 1 cob
  • Animals in 1086: 12 cattle; 30 pigs; 2 cobs; 2 beehives

• 2nd Manor

  • Lords of the Manor in 1066: Anund; Free men, five
  • Tenant in Chief in 1086: Robert son of Corbucion
  • Lord of the Manor in 1086: Humphrey (subinfeudated)
  • Taxable Value: 2 ¹⁄₈ geld
  • Value to Lord of the Manor: £2 in 1066; £2 in 1070; £2 10/- in 1086
  • Households: 1 slave
  • Plough Teams: 2 lord's ploughs; ⁵⁄₈ men's plough
  • Meadow: 20 acres
  • Woodland: 20 pigs
  • Mills: 1
  • Other resources: 0.5 fisheries
  • Animals in 1066: 40 pigs
  • Animals in 1086: 3 cattle; 20 pigs; 2 beehives

• 3rd Manor

  • Overlord in 1066: Earl Harold
  • Lord of the Manor in 1066: Toki of Winterton
  • Tenant in Chief in 1086: Roger Bigot
  • Lord of the Manor in 1086: Roger Bigot
  • Taxable Value: ¹⁄₄ geld
  • Value to Lord of the Manor: 10 shillings in 1066; 10 shillings in 1070; 10 shillings in 1086
  • Plough Teams: ¹⁄₂ lord's plough
  • Meadow: 6 acres