The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Danfrond, entered under the hundred of Ati’s Cross in Cheshire.
The origin of the name Danfrond 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.
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Danthorpe, entered under the hundred of Holderness [Middle Hundred] in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Danthorpe at 2 carucates of taxable land.
At the time of the survey, Danthorpe supported a recorded population of 9 smallholders, working 3 ploughs between them.
The survey records Danthorpe’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.
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Darfield, entered under the hundred of Strafforth in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Darfield at 5.5 carucates of taxable land.
At the time of the survey, Darfield supported a recorded population of 4 villagers, 4 smallholders, 2 slaves, working 2 ploughs between them.
The drop in value is hard to miss. Before 1066, Darfield was worth 5.5 shillings; by 1086 that had dropped to 3.5 shillings – a fall of 36%. 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.
Darley appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Blackwell in Derbyshire.
The name Darley is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word lēah, a woodland clearing or glade. 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 clearing’.
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Darrington, entered under the hundred of Osgodcross in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Darrington at 2.4 carucates of taxable land.
At the time of the survey, Darrington supported a recorded population of 17 villagers, 16 freemanmen, working 13 ploughs between them.
The name Darrington 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’.
The settlement of Darton is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Staincross in Yorkshire.
The name Darton 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’.
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Davenham, entered under the hundred of Middlewich in Cheshire. The survey assessed Davenham at 14 carucates of taxable land.
At the time of the survey, Davenham supported a recorded population of 6 villagers, 24 freemanmen, working 10 ploughs between them.
By 1086 Davenham was worth 1.6 shillings, up from 1.5 shillings before the Conquest – which sets it apart from the many nearby villages left waste or devalued.
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Davenport, entered under the hundred of Middlewich in Cheshire.
The origin of the name Davenport 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.
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Deighton, entered under the hundred of Allerton in Yorkshire.
The name Deighton 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’.