EPWORTH TOWN COUNCIL

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‘Manor In Epeuerde, Ledwin had eight carucates of land to be taxed. Land to twelve ploughs. Geoffrey de Wirce has there two ploughs, and eight sokemen, with two carucates and five oxgangs of this land; and thirteen villanes and nine bordars with six ploughs, and eleven fisheries of five shillings, and sixteen acres of meadow.

Wood pasture one mile long and one mile broad’

Historic Epworth (Epeuerde) extract from the Doomsday Book, 1086.