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Bostock in the Domesday Book (1086)

Bostock is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Middlewich in Cheshire.

Other Settlements in Middlewich

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name Bostock 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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Bothelford in the Domesday Book (1086)

Bothelford is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Amounderness in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Amounderness

The Meaning of the Name

The name Bothelford is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word ford, a river crossing. 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 ford’.

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Boughton in the Domesday Book (1086)

Boughton appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Duddeston in Cheshire. The survey assessed Boughton at 5 carucates of taxable land.

At the time of the survey, Boughton supported a recorded population of 1 villager, 9 smallholders, working 3 ploughs between them.

The numbers record a sharp fall. Before 1066, Boughton was worth 8 shillings; by 1086 that had dropped to 6 shillings – a fall of 25%. 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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Boulton in the Domesday Book (1086)

Boulton appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Litchurch in Derbyshire.

Other Settlements in Litchurch

The Meaning of the Name

The name Boulton is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word tūn, 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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Bowdon in the Domesday Book (1086)

Bowdon appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Tunendune in Cheshire.

Other Settlements in Tunendune

The Meaning of the Name

The name Bowdon is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word dūn, a hill. 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 hill’.

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Bowling in the Domesday Book (1086)

The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Bowling, entered under the hundred of Morley in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Morley

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name Bowling 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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Bowthorpe in the Domesday Book (1086)

The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Bowthorpe, entered under the hundred of Howden in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Bowthorpe at 10 carucates of taxable land.

At the time of the survey, Bowthorpe supported a recorded population of 12 villagers, 12 smallholders, 4 slaves, working 6 ploughs between them.

The survey records Bowthorpe’s value at 15 shillings 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.

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Boylestone in the Domesday Book (1086)

Boylestone appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Appletree in Derbyshire.

Other Settlements in Appletree

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name Boylestone 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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Boynton Hall in the Domesday Book (1086)

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

Other Settlements in Hunthow

The Meaning of the Name

The name Boynton Hall is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word tūn, 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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