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