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Ilton in the Domesday Book (1086)

The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Ilton, entered under the hundred of Land of Count Alan in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Ilton at 10 carucates of taxable land.

At the time of the survey, Ilton supported a recorded population of 7 villagers, 3 smallholders, 6 slaves, working 7 ploughs between them.

The drop in value is hard to miss. Before 1066, Ilton was worth 8.1 shillings; by 1086 that had dropped to 7.1 shillings – a fall of 12%. 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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Ingleby Greenhow in the Domesday Book (1086)

Ingleby Greenhow appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Langbaurgh in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Ingleby Greenhow at 0.5 carucates of taxable land.

At the time of the survey, Ingleby Greenhow supported a recorded population of 4 smallholders, 1 slave.

The survey records Ingleby Greenhow’s value at 5d 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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