| 1. | There was one virgate of land and land for 2 ploughs.
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| 2. | The amount of the land assessed was 18 hides 1 virgate.
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| 3. | The Danelaw equivalent of a virgate was two oxgangs or bovates.
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| 4. | But seems to have varied between about two and eight ferlings to the virgate.
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| 5. | He also granted the advowson of Charlecote church and half a virgate of land.
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| 6. | The acreage of a hide and virgate varied, but at Elton a hide was.
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| 7. | In about 1160 Helewis Avenel gave a virgate of land at Woodeaton to Eynsham Abbey.
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| 8. | He had also held it before 1066 and paid tax for 1 virgate of land.
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| 9. | It is most probably to be identified with the 3 hides and 1 virgate in'Graston'
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| 10. | The yard in this sense later became the standard holding of the medieval villein, and was known as the virgate.
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