From the Domesday Book, Winchester, 1086
Translation:
Notes: "The Count" is the Count of Mortain
"a hide" is
about 120 acres
The hay from
the "Meadow" was used to feed the oven who pulled the ploughs.
The
unfortunate Ordmer owned the land before it was expropriated by the
Norman
invaders following the Battle of Hastings in 1066.