The settlement of Great and Little Meols is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Willaston in Cheshire.
Great and Little Newsome appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Holderness [South Hundred] in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Great and Little Newsome at 2 carucates of taxable land.
At the time of the survey, Great and Little Newsome supported a recorded population of 9 villagers, 14 smallholders, working 4 ploughs between them.
The numbers record a sharp fall. Before 1066, Great and Little Newsome was worth 13 shillings; by 1086 that had dropped to 10 shillings – a fall of 23%. 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.
Great and Little Plumpton is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Amounderness in Yorkshire.
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Great and Little Preston, entered under the hundred of Skyrack in Yorkshire.
The settlement of Great and Little Ribston is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Burghshire in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Great and Little Ribston at 0.8 carucates of taxable land.
At the time of the survey, Great and Little Ribston supported a recorded population of 2 villagers.
The valuation dropped between 1066 and 1086. Before 1066, Great and Little Ribston was worth 1.5 shillings; by 1086 that had dropped to 1.36 shillings – a fall of 9%. 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.
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Great and Little Saughall, entered under the hundred of Willaston in Cheshire.
The settlement of Great and Little Sutton is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Willaston in Cheshire. The survey assessed Great and Little Sutton at 11.0 carucates of taxable land.
At the time of the survey, Great and Little Sutton supported a recorded population of 12 villagers, 8 smallholders, 3 slaves, 4 freemanmen, working 7 ploughs between them.
The survey records Great and Little Sutton’s value at 4.25 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.
Great Ayton is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Langbaurgh in Yorkshire.
The settlement of Great Barlow is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Scarsdale in Derbyshire.