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Matlock in the Domesday Book (1086)

Matlock is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Hamston in Derbyshire.

Other Settlements in Hamston

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name Matlock is not securely established from its modern form alone; like many settlement names in the North it likely combines an Old English or Old Norse personal name with a landscape term.

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Maunby in the Domesday Book (1086)

Maunby appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Land of Count Alan in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Land of Count Alan

The Meaning of the Name

The name Maunby is of Scandinavian origin. Its final element derives from the Old Norse word bý, a farmstead or village. The first element is most likely a personal name or an early descriptive term, now difficult to recover with certainty. Taken together the name probably meant something close to ‘a farmstead’.

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Maxudesmares in the Domesday Book (1086)

The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Maxudesmares, entered under the hundred of Dic in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Maxudesmares at 6.9 carucates of taxable land.

At the time of the survey, Maxudesmares supported a recorded population of 10 villagers, 6 smallholders, 3 slaves, 33 freemanmen, working 16 ploughs between them.

By 1086 Maxudesmares was worth 14.14 shillings, up from 11 shillings before the Conquest – which sets it apart from the many nearby villages left waste or devalued.

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Maxudesmersc in the Domesday Book (1086)

The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Maxudesmersc, entered under the hundred of Dic in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Dic

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name Maxudesmersc is not securely established from its modern form alone; like many settlement names in the North it likely combines an Old English or Old Norse personal name with a landscape term.

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Measham in the Domesday Book (1086)

The settlement of Measham is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Goscote in LEC. The survey assessed Measham at 4.9 carucates of taxable land.

At the time of the survey, Measham supported a recorded population of 8 villagers, 9 smallholders, 8 slaves, 32 freemanmen, working 5 ploughs between them.

The valuation dropped between 1066 and 1086. Before 1066, Measham was worth 8.85 shillings; by 1086 that had dropped to 8.55 shillings – a fall of 3%. Most Yorkshire villages that lost value on this scale were swept up in the Harrying of the North – William’s scorched-earth campaign of 1069–70.

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Meaux in the Domesday Book (1086)

The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Meaux, entered under the hundred of Holderness [Middle Hundred] in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Meaux at 95 carucates of taxable land.

The survey records Meaux’s value at 0d in 1086. No pre-Conquest figure survives – not unusual in the North, where records were disrupted by the Harrying and by the patchy coverage of the survey.

Other Settlements in Holderness [Middle Hundred]

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name Meaux is not securely established from its modern form alone; like many settlement names in the North it likely combines an Old English or Old Norse personal name with a landscape term.

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Mechlas in the Domesday Book (1086)

Mechlas is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Ati’s Cross in Cheshire.

Other Settlements in Ati’s Cross

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name Mechlas is not securely established from its modern form alone; like many settlement names in the North it likely combines an Old English or Old Norse personal name with a landscape term.

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Meincatis in the Domesday Book (1086)

The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Meincatis, entered under the hundred of Ati’s Cross in Cheshire.

Other Settlements in Ati’s Cross

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name Meincatis is not securely established from its modern form alone; like many settlement names in the North it likely combines an Old English or Old Norse personal name with a landscape term.

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Melbourne in the Domesday Book (1086)

The settlement of Melbourne is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Cave in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Cave

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name Melbourne is not securely established from its modern form alone; like many settlement names in the North it likely combines an Old English or Old Norse personal name with a landscape term.

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