 Using these figures then an estimate of the population of Eynesbury in 1086 is that it was within the range of 266 and 380 people.The Domesday Book uses a number of units of measure for areas of land that are now unfamiliar terms, such as hides and ploughlands.In different parts of the country, these were terms for the area of land that a team of eight oxen could plough in a single season and are equivalent to ; this was the amount of land that was considered to be sufficient to support a single family.