Warmwell in the Domesday Book

A village in Winfrith [Newburgh] hundred, in the county of Dorset.

Three manors recorded in Domesday.

• 1st Manor

  • Lord of the Manor in 1066: Thanes, two
  • Tenant in Chief in 1086: Earl Hugh
  • Lord of the Manor in 1086: William Malbank (subinfeudated)
  • Taxable Value: 2 ¹⁄₂ geld
  • Value to Lord of the Manor: £2 10/- in 1086
  • Households: 2 villagers; 7 smallholders; 1 slave
  • Plough Teams: 1 lord's plough; ¹⁄₂ men's plough (2 plough lands)
  • Pasture: 9 furlongs
  • Mills: 1, value 5 shillings

• 2nd Manor

  • Lord of the Manor in 1066: Almer
  • Tenant in Chief in 1086: Hugh son of Grip's wife Hawise
  • Lord of the Manor in 1086: Turold, a man-at-arms of the wife of Hugh son of Grip (subinfeudated)
  • Taxable Value: 1 ¹⁄₂ geld
  • Value to Lord of the Manor: £1 10/- in 1070; £2 in 1086
  • Households: 5 smallholders
  • Plough Teams: 2 lord's ploughs (2 plough lands)
  • Pasture: ¹⁄₂ mixed measure
  • Mills: 1, value 5 shillings
  • Animals in 1086: 10 pigs

• 3rd Manor

  • Lord of the Manor in 1066: Leofwin
  • Tenant in Chief in 1086: Count of Mortain
  • Lord of the Manor in 1086: Robert son of Ivo (subinfeudated)
  • Taxable Value: 1 geld
  • Value to Lord of the Manor: 16 shillings in 1086
  • Households: 3 smallholders
  • Meadow: 15 acres
  • Pasture: 9 furlongs