HOVE PROPERTY – what was your postcode like back in 1086?

It's now possible to check out just what they said about

back in the 11th century.

Take Aldrington, for example. There were 73 households back

then ('very large' according to the website) recorded in the first of two

entries, with a taxable value to the lord in 1086 of £5. There was land for

four ploughfields – one lord's plough team, and two men's plough teams – and the

lord in 1066 was the pleasingly-named Wigot of Wallingford. By 1086 he had been

replaced by a lord simply known as 'Godfrey'.

Put your postcode in here and you'll learn just what the

first estate agents made of your neighbourhood. And there's no mention at all

of Starbucks.