LEOFRIC - Open Domesday website (General)

by Loveridge , Wednesday, August 15, 2012, 11:34 (4478 days ago) @ ACP

Unfortunately it appears that only Lords of the Manor are listed; the yeoman farmers would have had copyhold leases with the Lord of the Manor - ie effectively they owned the land but had to pay the Lord of the Manor for the privilege of farming their own land! From 1066, of course, nearly all of the Lords of the Manor were Norman; it is very easy to differentiate between saxon and norman names. John