A carucate was the area that could be managed with team of eight oxen.

John set the amount to be collected from each carucate at three shillings.

Fulchere had there one carucate of land, with a hall; now it is waste.

The tax levied on each carucate came to be known as "carucage".

A carucate, approximately 240 acres, is the amount of land that can be worked by a plough team in a year.

It gave its name to the English carucate.

As such, the oxgang represented a parallel division of the carucate.

Approximately 15 acres or one eighth of a carucate.

Additionally, the carucate of land owned by the Hospital was valued at 10 shilling per year.

In Herdebi Henry has the sixth part of one carucate."

Used in Domesday like carucate for tax purposes.

With one carucate there are six slaves.

A unit of area similar to a carucate (plough)

There is one carucate in demesne with one villein.

It is important to mention that in many instances, there was not a direct relationship between a carucate and the actual size of the land taxed.

Ulfenise had there a carucate of land, soke of Belton.

The arable land is one carucate.

He is known only from one entry in the Domesday Book, his cult or church holding one carucate of land.

At the time of Domesday Snarestone amounted to a single carucate of waste land.

In the demesne there are one carucate and a half, and two villeins, and eight borderers.

A carucate was the amount of land cultivated by a team of eight oxen in one farming season, which was a nominal 120 acres.

Of the land held by the manor, one Goisfridus held half a carucate; he had one plough and eight villeins.

(A carucate was as much land as could be ploughed in one year by one plough and eight oxen.

In 1198, Walter requested a carucage, or plough-tax, of five shillings on every plough-land, or carucate, under cultivation.

In 1391 Sawtry Abbey was granted a messuage and one carucate of land in Woodwalton.

The settlement was small with one ploughland and six sokemen.

Glinisko is the name of a ploughland which exists to the present day.

There was a massive expansion of ploughland during the Song dynasty.

In Langcliffe he paid taxes on three carucates of ploughland.

The contrast of the grey rocks, the red ploughland and the dark green figs is very striking.

I never remember him but from when I was a child shooing the birds off the ploughland.

From the 1890s the spread of Budapest reached the village and the council sold out the ploughland for new suburbs.

I was thinking of fences and irrigation ditches, and hard going over the ploughland.

The rich dark ploughland was beginning to show the first faint green shadow of growth, elusive and fragile as a veil.

John le Ware holds one ploughland in Hulme by the service of 5s.

The previous and subsequent landowners were recorded in the Domesday Book along with the area of the ploughland.

There, Gefjun encountered king Gylfi "and he gave her ploughland."

It was sloping upwards, that ploughland, and the horses were over their fetlocks in the red, soft soil.

There was a thriving mill, and the fields of the demesne were wide and green, the ploughland well tended.

The enclosure turned the Broyle into the landscape of ploughland bisected by long straight roads that it still remains.

The sparrows in the ploughland were crouching in terror of the kestrel.

The survey reveals what areas of the countryside were worked as ploughland, pasture, meadow or woodland, and suggests regional variations.

It is especially serious on land bearing winter cereals, since the resulting ploughland can be exposed to the elements from October to April.

The name may derive from butt, a strip of ploughland shorter than the average length of one furlong.

The areas of ploughland were counted in carucates: the land a farmer could manage throughout the year with a team of eight oxen.

Rough ploughland is harrowed, broken up and raked in one pass by a cunningly kitted out tractor.

In demesne (taxable) is one ploughland, two serfs and two villeins with four acres of meadow.

The forest ceased quickly, and the earth under the trees became trenchy furrows and yet undivided lots of rye ploughland.

Meadow, pasture, woodland and ploughland, some of the geographical features recorded in Domesday Book, also provide useful information about local economies.

The manor originated as part of the Marsey fee and one ploughland was held by Augustin de Breightmet in the 12th century.