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Millom Castle in the Domesday Book (1086)

Millom Castle is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Amounderness in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Amounderness

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name Millom Castle 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.

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Millom in the Domesday Book (1086)

Millom appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Amounderness in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Amounderness

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name Millom 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.

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Milton in the Domesday Book (1086)

Milton is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Walecros in Derbyshire.

Other Settlements in Walecros

The Meaning of the Name

The name Milton 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’.

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Minshull Vernon in the Domesday Book (1086)

Minshull Vernon appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Middlewich in Cheshire.

Other Settlements in Middlewich

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name Minshull Vernon 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.

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Minskip in the Domesday Book (1086)

The settlement of Minskip is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Burghshire in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Minskip at 3 carucates of taxable land.

At the time of the survey, Minskip supported a recorded population of 1 villager, 10 smallholders, 4 slaves, working 4 ploughs between them.

The survey puts Minskip’s value at 3 shillings, the same as before the Conquest. Unchanged valuations are relatively rare in the North, where disruption was widespread.

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Minsthorpe in the Domesday Book (1086)

The settlement of Minsthorpe is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Osgodcross in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Osgodcross

The Meaning of the Name

The name Minsthorpe is of Scandinavian origin. Its final element derives from the Old Norse word þorp, an outlying or secondary farmstead. 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 outlying farm’.

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Mint House in the Domesday Book (1086)

Mint House appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Amounderness in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Mint House at 0.3 carucates of taxable land.

The survey puts Mint House’s value at 2d, the same as before the Conquest. Unchanged valuations are relatively rare in the North, where disruption was widespread.

The survey lists 2 manors at Mint House under different lords. Splitting a single settlement between multiple tenants was common across the North – Saxon estates broken up and handed to William’s followers after 1066.

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Mirfield in the Domesday Book (1086)

Mirfield appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Morley in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Morley

The Meaning of the Name

The name Mirfield is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word feld, open country. 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 open land’.

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Misperton in the Domesday Book (1086)

The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Misperton, entered under the hundred of Maneshou in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Misperton at 20 carucates of taxable land.

At the time of the survey, Misperton supported a recorded population of 42 villagers, 10 smallholders, working 47 ploughs between them.

The survey records Misperton’s value at 21 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.

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