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The Domesday
Survey of 1086 records Otterden Manor as "answering
for * sulung" (a land measurement). It had land for 2 ploughs,
and the lord himself had land for one plough (also a form of
land measurement). There were two villagers and four smallholders
and they had * a plough. There was one acre of meadow and sufficient
woodland to feed 5 pigs on acorns and beech mast.
In the time of
King Edward the Confessor 1043-1066 it was valued at 10s, but
at the time of the Survey it had increased to 30s. The manor
also had two measures of land in Canterbury at 12d. A Saxon,
or Jute, called Alfward held the manor from King Edward.
Otterden Manor
as listed in the Survey made by Christ Church, Canterbury (known
as the Domesday Monachorum, or the Survey of the Monks)
"is paying 7d".
Under the section
on 'Otterden' (volume V, p533) in his History and Topographical
Survey of the County of Kent (published c.1797), Edward
Hasted refers to the Domesday record. He wrote: Otterden "lies
the next parish northward from Lenham, being written in the
survey of Domesday, Otringedene, in ancient deeds, Otteringden,
and in later ones Ottringden, alias Otterden."
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