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  • a '' Burgage '', a plot of land rented from a lord or king

  • a '' (240,000 to 480,000 m²) with the land quality. It was the basis for the assessment of taxes. The name may perhaps be derived from the payment of taxes in animal hides.

  • a '' (for 40 days) were due to the Crown. It was determined by land value, and the number of hides in a Knight's Fee varied.

  • a '' consisting of 100 ''hides''. The hundreds of Stoke Desborough and Burnham in Buckinghamshire are known as the Chiltern Hundreds .

  • a '' Franconian Lan '' used in Poland since the 13th century, consisted of 43.2 morgs = 23 to 28 Hectare s. The term ''Lan'' was also used to indicate a full-sized farm, as opposed to one split up into a number of smaller sections.

  • a '' and other areas of strong Danish influence. It is similar to ''hundred'' or a ''ward''. It was used in Yorkshire , Lincolnshire , Nottinghamshire , Derbyshire , Leicestershire and Rutland .

  • a '' was divided into six rapes, which were intermediate divisions between the county and the ''hundred''. A rape was to have its own river, forest and Castle .

  • a '' was divided into five ''lathes'', from the Old English ''laeth'', meaning district.

  • a '' ''thriding'', meaning "one-third".

  • a '', Cumberland , Westmorland , and Durham .



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