Onehouse in the Domesday Book

A village in Stowmarket hundred, in the county of Suffolk.

Four manors recorded in Domesday.

• 1st Manor

  • Overlord in 1066: King Edward
  • Lord of the Manor in 1066: Ketil Alder
  • Tenant in Chief in 1086: Ranulf Peverel
  • Lords of the Manor in 1086: Osbert Male (subinfeudated); Ranulf Peverel
  • Taxable Value: 1 ⁷⁄₈ geld
  • Value to Lord of the Manor: £2 in 1066; £2 in 1070; £2 10/- in 1086
  • Households: 8 smallholders; 4 slaves
  • Plough Teams: 2 lord's ploughs; 1 men's plough
  • Meadow: 12 acres
  • Woodland: 6 pigs
  • Churches: 1
  • Animals in 1066: 16 pigs
  • Animals in 1086: 6 cattle; 30 pigs; 22 goats; 1 cob

• 2nd Manor

  • Overlord in 1066: King Edward
  • Lords of the Manor in 1066: Wihtmer; Freemen, two; Free man, one
  • Tenant in Chief in 1086: Count of Mortain
  • Lords of the Manor in 1086: Nigel (subinfeudated); Count of Mortain
  • Taxable Value: 1 ¹⁄₈ geld
  • Value to Lord of the Manor: £1 in 1066; £1 in 1070; £1 in 1086
  • Households: 6 smallholders; 2 freemen
  • Plough Teams: 1 lord's plough
  • Meadow: 4 acres

• 3rd Manor

  • Overlord in 1066: Abbey of Bury St Edmunds
  • Lord of the Manor in 1066: Free man, one
  • Tenant in Chief in 1086: Abbey of Bury St Edmunds
  • Lord of the Manor in 1086: Abbey of Bury St Edmunds
  • Taxable Value: ¹⁄₂ geld
  • Value to Lord of the Manor: £1 in 1066; £1 in 1070; £1 in 1086
  • Households: 3 smallholders
  • Plough Teams: 1 men's plough
  • Meadow: 4 acres

• 4th Manor

  • Overlord in 1066: Ketil Alder
  • Lord of the Manor in 1066: Free men, ten
  • Tenant in Chief in 1086: Humphrey son of Aubrey
  • Lord of the Manor in 1086: Humphrey son of Aubrey
  • Taxable Value: ¹⁄₂ geld
  • Value to Lord of the Manor: 10 shillings in 1086
  • Households: 1 smallholder
  • Plough Teams: 1 men's plough
  • Meadow: 3 acres