Westleton in the Domesday Book

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

Four manors recorded in Domesday.

• 1st Manor

  • Lords of the Manor in 1066: Aki the Dane; Free men, fourteen and one half
  • Tenant in Chief in 1086: Robert Malet
  • Lord of the Manor in 1086: Gilbert Blunt (subinfeudated)
  • Taxable Value: 5 geld
  • Value to Lord of the Manor: £6 in 1066; £1 in 1070; £6 3/2½ in 1086
  • Households: 13 villagers; 14 smallholders
  • Plough Teams: 8 men's ploughs
  • Meadow: 3 acres
  • Woodland: 7 pigs
  • Churches: 1
  • Animals in 1066: 24 goats
  • Animals in 1086: 3 cattle; 20 pigs; 24 goats; 2 beehives

• 2nd Manor

  • Lord of the Manor in 1066: Free man, one
  • Tenant in Chief in 1086: Robert Malet
  • Lord of the Manor in 1086: Fulcred (subinfeudated)
  • Taxable Value: ¹⁄₄ geld
  • Value to Lord of the Manor: 8 shillings in 1066; £1 in 1070; 8 shillings in 1086
  • Meadow: 1 acre
  • Churches: 1

• 3rd Manor

  • Lord of the Manor in 1066: Brunmer the priest
  • Tenant in Chief in 1086: Robert Blunt
  • Lord of the Manor in 1086: Robert Blunt
  • Taxable Value: ¹⁄₄ geld
  • Value to Lord of the Manor: 4 shillings in 1086
  • Plough Teams: ¹⁄₂ lord's plough

• 4th Manor

  • Tenant in Chief in 1086: Robert Malet
  • Lord of the Manor in 1086: Gilbert Blunt (subinfeudated)
  • Taxable Value: 0 geld
  • Households: 1 villager