Domesday
Book 1086 (entry for Woodborough)
The
entry concerning Woodborough refers to the land belonging to the church,
(i.e. Southwell Minster) and the Clerk (or Priest) of Woodborough who was
a Prebend of Southwell. A Wapentake was a district, and Udeburg was an early
form or name for Woodborough.
“In Udeburg seven bovates to the geld,
Land of two carucates.
There is half a carucate
in demesne and two villeins and one bordar have one carucate.
It belongs to Suduwelle.
In the same place one
clerk has under the Archbishop one bovate to the geld.”
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- A bovate or oxgang
was as much arable land as one ox could plough in a year (6-8 acres), together
with the proportionate amount of woodland pasture. There were approximately
6 bovates in a carucate.
- The geld (Danegeld)
was an annual tax collected by the King.
- A demesne was the
estate and home farm of the landowner.
- A villein was a
tenant farmer renting a substantial area of land and a bordar, a tenant
with a small-holding of about 5 acres.
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