Domesday Book Extract

Land of The Bishop of Bayeux

Wadard hold 1/2 sulung in FARNINGHAM from the Bishop. Land for 3 ploughs, In lordship 2 ploughs with 1 villager, two cottagers and 5 slaves. 1/2 mill at 5s; meadow, 4 acres; woodland, 5 pigs. Apart from that 1/2 sulung Wadard holds 1/2 yoke in the same village which never was exempt (from tax) to the King.


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