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the earliest mention of knostrop time of domesday survey when hamlet area of open fields , location of lord of manor s rabbit warren. in 13th , 14th centuries land cultivated using three-field system, growing wheat or rye, oats , barley. in 1341, fields cultivated 30 tenants, freeholders majority villeins or bondsmen. 1 bondsman robert knostrop paid 4 shillings , 9 pence in annual rent 55 acres of land , along fellow bondsmen, obliged spend several days ploughing , sowing, make hay , reap corn lord of manor.








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