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Domesday Book for Suffolk and Norfolk is unique in including, for most vills, measures of ‘lengths’ and ‘widths’, expressed in leagues and furlongs. If multiplied together, these give areas smaller than the nineteenth-century parishes and amount to only about one-third of each hundred. The only plausible interpretation is that the linear measures are estimates of the extent of a vill's arable land, and might be numerically related to its caracute-value. This hypothesis is tested for fourteen Suffolk hundreds together with the relation of Suffolk linear measures to the ‘ploughlands’ of other counties. It is concluded that the linear measures may give a more accurate picture of the extent of arable exploitation than any other measures available in Domesday Book.
Domesday Book for Suffolk and Norfolk is unique in including, for most vills, measures of ‘lengths’ and ‘widths’, expressed in leagues and furlongs. If multiplied together, these give areas smaller than the nineteenth-century parishes and amount to only about one-third of each hundred. The only plausible interpretation is that the linear measures are estimates of the extent of a vill's arable land, and might be numerically related to its caracute-value. This hypothesis is tested for fourteen Suffolk hundreds together with the relation of Suffolk linear measures to the ‘ploughlands’ of other counties. It is concluded that the linear measures may give a more accurate picture of the extent of arable exploitation than any other measures available in Domesday Book.
Domesday land measures in Suffolk
Hesse, Mary (author)
Landscape History ; 22 ; 21-36
2000-01-01
16 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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