Westhorpe in the Domesday Book

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

Nine manors recorded in Domesday.

• 1st Manor

  • Overlords in 1066: Edric of Laxfield; Abbey of Bury St Edmunds
  • Lords of the Manor in 1066: Wulfric Hagni; Free men, fifteen
  • Tenant in Chief in 1086: Eudo son of Spirewic
  • Lord of the Manor in 1086: Geoffrey (subinfeudated)
  • Taxable Value: 1 ¹⁄₄ geld
  • Value to Lord of the Manor: £1 in 1066; £2 in 1086
  • Households: 1 smallholder; 1 slave
  • Plough Teams: 1 ¹⁄₂ lord's ploughs; 1 men's plough
  • Meadow: 8 acres
  • Woodland: 14 pigs
  • Animals in 1086: 2 cattle; 31 pigs; 15 goats; 3 cobs; 5 beehives

• 2nd Manor

  • Overlord in 1066: Abbey of Bury St Edmunds
  • Lords of the Manor in 1066: Free men, eight; 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: 10 shillings in 1066; 10 shillings in 1070; 11 shillings in 1086
  • Plough Teams: 1 ¹⁄₂ men's ploughs
  • Meadow: 2 acres
  • Woodland: 4 pigs

• 3rd Manor

  • Overlord in 1066: Edric of Laxfield
  • Lord of the Manor in 1066: Leofric
  • Tenant in Chief in 1086: Robert Malet
  • Lord of the Manor in 1086: Hubert of Mont-Canisy (subinfeudated)
  • Taxable Value: ¹⁄₂ geld
  • Value to Lord of the Manor: 10 shillings in 1066; £1 10/- in 1086
  • Households: 3 smallholders
  • Plough Teams: 1 ¹⁄₂ men's ploughs
  • Meadow: 2 acres
  • Woodland: 8 pigs

• 4th Manor

  • Overlord in 1066: Edric of Laxfield
  • Lords of the Manor in 1066: Free men, four; Free man, one
  • Tenant in Chief in 1086: Robert Malet
  • Lord of the Manor in 1086: Robert Malet
  • Taxable Value: ¹⁄₄ geld
  • Value to Lord of the Manor: 4 shillings in 1066; 6 shillings in 1086
  • Plough Teams: 1 men's plough
  • Meadow: 1 acre

• 5th Manor

  • Overlords in 1066: Wulfric; Abbey of Bury St Edmunds
  • Lords of the Manor in 1066: Free men, three and one half; Ordric
  • Tenant in Chief in 1086: Robert Malet
  • Lord of the Manor in 1086: Robert Malet's mother (subinfeudated)
  • Taxable Value: ¹⁄₄ geld
  • Value to Lord of the Manor: 4 shillings in 1066; 5 shillings in 1086
  • Plough Teams: 1 men's plough
  • Meadow: 1 acre

• 6th Manor

  • Lord of the Manor in 1066: Auti
  • Tenant in Chief in 1086: Peter of Valognes
  • Lord of the Manor in 1086: Peter of Valognes
  • Taxable Value: ¹⁄₈ geld
  • Value to Lord of the Manor: 1/4¾ in 1086
  • Woodland: 2 pigs

• 7th Manor

  • Lord of the Manor in 1066: Brictric
  • Tenant in Chief in 1086: Walter the deacon
  • Lord of the Manor in 1086: Walter the deacon
  • Taxable Value: 0 geld
  • Value to Lord of the Manor: 1 shillings in 1086

• 8th Manor

  • Overlord in 1066: Aki the Dane
  • Lord of the Manor in 1066: Free men, four
  • Tenant in Chief in 1086: Robert Blunt
  • Lord of the Manor in 1086: Robert Blunt
  • Taxable Value: 0 geld
  • Value to Lord of the Manor: 1/2½ in 1086

• 9th 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: 0 geld
  • Value to Lord of the Manor: 2d in 1086