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1086 Domesday Survey: Church, 4 watermills, population about 1300
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Domesday book Folio 357v The Land of the King. In Grantham Queen Edith had 12 carucates to the geld. There is no arable land outside the vill. Queen Edith had a hall, and 2 carucates and land for 3 ploughs without geld. (There were) 111 burgesses. Ivo has 1 church and 4 mills rendering 12s and 8 acres of meadow without geld. The land of Bishop Osmond. In Londonthorpe ... is land for 2 ploughs. this land belongs to the church of Grantham. In Spittlegate St. Wulfram of Grantham has half a carucate of land to the geld. In Great Gonerby, St. Wulfram of Grantham has 1 carucate of land. there is land for 12 oxen. Folio 370v The Land of Kolgrimr. In Houghton (in Grantham) Kolgrimr has 14 bovates of land. There is land for as many oxen. Fedegaest, Kolgrimr's man, has there 1 plough and 2 mills, rendering 30s and 3 acres of meadow worth 40s. Folio 377.. Clamores in Kesteven (court proceedings regarding disputed title) they say that Northmann some of Nerewine has 7 gardens in Grantham . but the gardens themselves belong to Gonerby. Folio 377v They say that the whole of the customary dues of the church and title of Westhorpe (in Old Somerby) belong to the Church of Grantham as Bishop Osbert claims. Note. Carucate was a measure of land peculiar to Danelaw: it was the basic unit of assessment for land tax - geld. Soke and suke - shared in privileges.
ST WULFRAM'S EVENTS
1091
Lands and endowments of the church granted to St Osmund and by him given to his new cathedral at Old Sarum - the beginning of a long association with Salisbury. Salisbury appointed 2 vicars - North and South Grantham
1100
Larger church developed - cruciform plan, possibly 140 feet long, wide nave as now, rounded arches and 6 pillars remain today, narrow side aisles with lean-to roofs. Evidence of clerestory windows
GRANTHAM EVENTS
1086
-1086
Domesday Survey: Church, 4 watermills, population about 1300
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1100
Henry I's daughter, Matilda, held the manor.
EVENTS BEYOND GRANTHAM
1050
Kesteven was Anglo-Danish
1052
-1065
Westminster Abbey rebuilt
1066
Tower of London built
1066
-1086
Feudal System introduced
1066
nearly all land in Lincolnshire passed from Anglo/Scandinavian lords to Norman tenants-in-chief
1066
-1085
William I - the first Norman king
1066
Battle of Hastings
1066
-1066
Harold II king
1078
Domesday Survey
1085
-1100
William II - king
1087
Durham Cathedral built
1093
First Crusade - the first of nine wars to liberate the Holy Land from Islamic rule.