The settlement of Laysthorpe Lodge is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Maneshou in Yorkshire.
Laytham is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Cave in Yorkshire.
Layton and Little Layton is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Amounderness in Yorkshire.
The settlement of Lazenby Hall is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Allerton in Yorkshire.
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Lazenby, entered under the hundred of Langbaurgh in Yorkshire.
Lea is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Amounderness in Yorkshire.
Lea is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Hamston in Derbyshire.
Lea is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Willaston in Cheshire. The survey assessed Lea at 10 carucates of taxable land.
At the time of the survey, Lea supported a recorded population of 7 villagers, 5 smallholders, 5 slaves, working 8 ploughs between them.
Something went badly wrong here between the two surveys. Before 1066, Lea was worth 12 shillings; by 1086 that had dropped to 6 shillings – a fall of 50%. 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 Lea Newbold, entered under the hundred of Duddeston in Cheshire.