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1086 Domesday Survey: Church, 4 watermills, population about 1300

More Detail 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.