Dullingham in the Domesday Book

A village in Radfield hundred, in the county of Cambridgeshire.

Four manors recorded in Domesday.

• 1st Manor

  • Lord of the Manor in 1066: Earl Algar
  • Tenant in Chief in 1086: Abbey of Saint-Wandrille
  • Lord of the Manor in 1086: Abbey of Saint-Wandrille
  • Taxable Value: 6 geld
  • Value to Lord of the Manor: £15 in 1066; £15 in 1070; £12 in 1086
  • Households: 17 villagers; 10 smallholders; 2 slaves
  • Plough Teams: 3 lord's ploughs; 9 men's ploughs (12 plough lands)
  • Meadow: 1 plough
  • Woodland: 100 pigs

• 2nd Manor

  • Overlords in 1066: Edeva the fair; Earl Harold; Ordgar
  • Lords of the Manor in 1066: Heoruwulf, a royal thane; Viking of Dullingham; Alstan, Ordgar's man
  • Tenant in Chief in 1086: Count Alan
  • Lord of the Manor in 1086: 2 men-at-arms (subinfeudated)
  • Taxable Value: 2 ¹⁄₈ geld
  • Value to Lord of the Manor: £2 4/- in 1066; £2 4/- in 1086
  • Households: 2 villagers; 9 smallholders; 2 slaves
  • Meadow: ¹⁄₄ plough

• 3rd Manor

  • Lord of the Manor in 1066: Freemen, sixteen
  • Tenant in Chief in 1086: Hardwin of Scales
  • Lord of the Manor in 1086: Hardwin of Scales
  • Taxable Value: 1 ⁷⁄₈ geld
  • Value to Lord of the Manor: £2 in 1066; £2 in 1070; £2 in 1086
  • Households: 7 villagers; 1 smallholder
  • Woodland: 4 pigs

• 4th Manor

  • Tenant in Chief in 1086: Countess Judith
  • Lord of the Manor in 1086: Countess Judith
  • Taxable Value: ¹⁄₈ geld
  • Value to Lord of the Manor: 1 shillings in 1086
  • Households: 1 smallholder