4. Balderton Old Hall

W. E. Doubleday writes of medieval Balderton (no source provided) in The Nottinghamshire Guardian (1942)
“Bondmen had to work with eleven harrows once a year for a halfpenny a day: they had to plough two days a year; they sowed the lord's corn and vegetable seeds and were provided with drink only at the Lent sowings; in summer they had to do 115 days' work weeding and sowing. The cottars paid a rent, in autumn they rendered 36 days' work without food, and at Christmas the tenants paid 42 cocks and hens and in return were entertained at the manor house. They were subject to the manorial courts and the cottars paid "stuth" —a fine to their lord whenever a daughter of theirs married. Vines were cultivated then and long afterwards, doubtless for the production of the lord's wine.”

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Credits for images: from Loveday Album, with thanks to Ian Lawrence, deputy church warden of St. Giles, Balderton; and from historic photographic collection, Balderton Village Hall © Balderton Parish Council