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Source:British document TNA, E 31/2/1/186

From Ross Surname Project

TNA, E 31/2/1/186
Place name: Lessness, Kent. Folio: 6v Great Domesday Book. Domesday Placename Form: Loisnes.
Originally written 1086


Document

The National Archives (UK) catalogue
Held by The National Archives, Kew
Collection Exchequer: Treasury of the Receipt: Domesday Book etc. (E 31/2/1)
Collection notes Great Domesday: Kent, Sussex, Surrey, Hampshire, Berkshire, Wiltshire, Dorset, Somerset, Devon, Cornwall, Middlesex, Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire,...
Reference E 31/2/1/186
Title Place name: Lessness, Kent. Folio: 6v Great Domesday Book. Domesday Placename Form: Loisnes.
Description Place name: Lessness, Kent. Folio: 6v Great Domesday Book. Domesday place name: Loisnes. People mentioned within entire folio: Adam fitzHubert; Aethelnoth Cild; Aethelweald of Eltham; Alweard; Alweard brother of Godwine; Alwine; Ansgot; Ansketil de Rots; Azur of Lessness; Beorhtsige; Beorhtsige Cild; Earl Harold; Ernulf de Hesdin; Eskil; Geoffrey de Rots; Gilbert Maminot, Bishop of Lisieux; Godel; Godric, son of Karli; Godwine, brother of Alweard; Hamo the sheriff; King Edward as lord; King William as landholder; Leofric; Mauger; Ording of Horton Kirby; Ralph fitzTurold; Richard of Tonbridge, son of Count Gilbert; Robert Latimer; Scotland, Abbot of St Augustine of Canterbury; Toki; Toli; Walter de Douai; William fitzOgier.
Period 1086
Closure status Open Document, Open Description
Closure type Normal Closure before FOI Act:
Subjects C10106 Taxation;

C10053 Landed estates

Digitised Yes
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  • 1086 - The same Anschitel holds half a sulung of the biship in the same manor. There is land for 1 plough, and there is 1 plough in demesne; and 8 fillans with 6 bordars have 1 plough. There is a mill rendering 15s, and 9 acres of meadow, and woodland for 5 pigs. The whole manor was worth 40s ; and now 60s. Ordling held it of the king.[1]
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  • 1086 - The same Anschitel holds 1 sulung of the bishop in the same manor. There is land for 3 ploughs, and 8 villans with 2 ploughs. There is 1 serf, and 8 acres of meadow, and half a mill rendering 5s, and woodland for 15 pigs. The whole manor was worth 4l ; and now 100s. Aleward held if or Harold. These 4 manors are now held as 1 manor.[1]
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Sources

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Lessness, Kent. Folio: 6v Great Domesday Book" The National Archives. 18 Dec 2008. Retrieved 18 Jul 2025.