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"In Welbourn, Godwin had 12 carucates of land to the geld. There is land for 16 ploughs. Robert Malet has 3 ploughs there in demesne, and 35 sokemen on 7 carucates of this land and 12 villans and 8 bordars having 12 ploughs and 2 oxen. There is a priest and a church to which belong 5 bovates of land, and 1 mill rendering 2s, and 200 acres of meadow. In the time of King Edward as now, worth £16; tallage 40s."
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Old Langho Church- Old Langho, Lancashire, England
Langho village has a bit of a split personality. The 'new' village blossomed at the height of the railroad boom of the Victorian period, and seems quite different from the older part of the village, now called Old Langho to distinguish it from the new development. A new church was built to serve the growing population, leaving the Old Church to dwindle into disuse and decay. ... more
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