Vill is a term used in English, Welsh and Irish history to describe a basic rural land unit, roughly comparable to that of a parish, manor, village or tithing.
[1][2] The vill was the smallest territorial and administrative unit—a geographical subdivision of the hundred and county[3]—in Anglo-Saxon England.
[4] The term is the Anglicized form of the word villa, used in Latin documents to translate the Anglo-Saxon tun.
The vill had judicial and policing functions, including frankpledge, as well as responsibility for taxation, roads and bridges.
[13] While retaining and even extending its hierarchical and socially stratified nature to the end, the medieval vill always remained a vibrant part of local rural life.