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Grimston in the Domesday Book (1086)

Grimston is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Maneshou in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Grimston at 3.8 carucates of taxable land.

At the time of the survey, Grimston supported a recorded population of 17 villagers, 7 smallholders, 16 freemanmen, working 13 ploughs between them.

Something went badly wrong here between the two surveys. Before 1066, Grimston was worth 8.8 shillings; by 1086 that had dropped to 5.5 shillings – a fall of 37%. 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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Grindleton in the Domesday Book (1086)

Grindleton is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Craven in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Grindleton at 10 carucates of taxable land.

At the time of the survey, Grindleton supported a recorded population of 31 villagers, 10 smallholders, 6 slaves, working 13 ploughs between them.

The survey records Grindleton’s value at 8 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.